To think critically is basically the process self-regulatory judgment. Critical thinking is the process by which a reasoned consideration to evidence, context, methods, and criteria are included.
News.<span>
</span><span>You would say, "The news is on."</span>
I‘d say the answer is D, maybe.
if you meet someone halfway, you accept some of the points they are making so that you can come to an agreement with them.
The sentence that best paraphrases the first sentence of the excerpt is "You aren't telling me anything I don't know". This is because the narrator uses the metaphor of "rousing me from a deep sleep" as saying that he was aware of the situation that was going on, it wasn't that he didn't know about it.