The correct answer is C.
In this excerpt, Odysseus friend warns him that they should take what they can gather and flee. However, Odysseus curiosity is too strong, and he decides they should stay so he can see the caveman. This caused many of his party's member to perish.
This passage seeks to explain that, if Odysseus had trusted his friend, they would have escaped and no one would have died.
Deep in the Antartic wastelands, within one of the numerous penguin colonies there was a penguin who was different. He did not look like the other penguins; he did not think like other penguins. He was an anomaly. For a start, he wore horned-rimmed glasses that he found lying on the wreckage of an ancient whaling ship that floundered and was stuck in the ice close to where he lived. All the other penguins mocked him for wearing glasses. What they did not know, was that he loved reading the books found on the whaling ship.
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