Since <em>distant:intimate </em>are words that have opposite meanings, you need to find another pair of words with the same quality. The correct answer is morose:joyous, because those two words mean different things.
He is captured by a colonel who is son of Don Lupe that was killed by Juvencio. When some men are trampling on his small property he goes out to tell them not to do that when he is captured. He doesn't want to die and he says that he is not a threat to anybody because he is too old then the colonel tells his men to get Juvencio drunk.
