Answer: B. Congress passes $50 Million Defense Bill
Explanation: Soft news stories are something entertaining or trendy. For example a local football player receiving a kidney. That story would be trying to make the reader feel sympathetic towards the football player.
Clinton uses an appeal to credibility in this expert of his 2001 farewell address. An appeal to credibility can also be called ethos. In ethos, an audience is convinced by a person's authority. Because the soon to be ex-president is saying that he is idealistic, hopeful, and confident of the future of America, he leaves his audience to believe the same thing due to his position of authority or power.
A. seems like the right answer, but honestly none of them seem correct to me.
The author uses real as relavant. This is still a relavant issue.