The answer would be the first one, Clara's curiosity shows how openness to her new experiences makes hard times enjoyable
Answer:
Mother Nature also instructed other animals to work together.
Explanation:
The summary is talking about the ants. You don't need the detail of Mother Nature instructing the other animals, you only need details about the ants since the story is about how the ants learned to work hard.
The gerund in this sentence must be "talking" as gerunds end with -ing, and this is the only dog in the sentence that ends with -ing.
It's an object of a verb (the verb is stop)- it's what the verb directs the action to - so it's the direct object (answer D).