A sentence worded or expressed so as to elicit information
Athena tell Telemachus to sail to Delphi and Troy and ask king Nestor and King.
So you're looking for 2 synonyms. B is the best answer, avert and prevent are synonyms of each other. The other choices are antonyms, or they're at least not synonyms.
Answer:
A scientific theory is an explanation of an aspect of the natural world that can be repeatedly tested and verified in accordance with the scientific method, using accepted protocols of observation, measurement, and evaluation of results.
Personification. Nature doesn’t technically work or build, so it is given human like quality here. The literary meaning is that nature is - powerful force of both creation and destruction.