1. The kite festival once marked the arrival of spring in Pakistan. People gathered with their handmade kites and battled over whose kite could fly _________ .
2. Competition was fierce. People spoke of nothing else in the days that _________, admiring the winner and promising themselves that one day, their own kite would fly proudly over the town.
3. But, unfortunately that was _________. The kite festival has been banned since 2007.
In sentence 2, select the transition that best fits the blank.
A. came before
B. followed
C. happened earlier
D. were over