Why to read hard news instead of soft news ?

Read the excerpt from part 2 of “to build a fire.” to build the fire he had been forced to remove his mittens, and the fingers had quickly gone numb. his pace of four miles an hour had kept his heart pumping blood to the surface of his body and to all the extremities. but the instant he stopped, the action of the pump eased down. which words from the excerpt provide context clues for the underlined word?

Which should be added after the sentence 6 to most effectively move a the plot forward

Read the passage below my men came pressing round me, pleading: 'why not take these cheeses, get them stowed, come back, throw open all the pens, and make a run for it? we'll drive the kids and lambs aboard. we say put out again on good salt water! ' ah, how sound that was! yet i refused. i wished to see the caveman, what he had to offer – no pretty sight, it turned out, for my friends. -the odyssey, homer what inferences can be made about odysseus based on his choice to stay and see the cyclops? check all that apply. a.odysseus does not care about his crew. b.odysseus is curious about what the cyclops is like. c.odysseus wants to see if the cyclops will give him anything. d.odysseus is scared of the cyclops. e.odysseus needs to show who is in charge by not following what his men say.