pay close attention we have "and", which triggers parallelism. In the 1st noun underlined Part we have Can threaten so we need a parallel verb to that, based on that Option A,B,C gets eliminated
"this process" = "trying to recover uranium out of seawater"
However, "trying to ..." cannot be said to be expensive. We can say "to recover ..." is an expensive process, but we cannot say "trying to recover ..." is an expensive process. So (C) is illogical.
定位:By the time Europeans sailing the Atlantic coast of North America first documented the fur trade, it was apparently well underway. The first to record such trade—the captain of a Portuguese vessel sailing from Newfoundland in 1501
在最早的记载皮草交易的时候,这个交易明显已经开始了,最早的交易记录是1501年,所以选B,没有关于1501年之前的记录
as well 通常放在一个句子末尾