The basketball hoop because the sentence is referring to the basketball hoop not just the basketball
adjectives are great for describing things.
Instead of “I will go into the forest.” We could have “I will go into the scary forest” or “I will go into the beautiful forest”
It’s just good for describing and adding depth into your writing, or something.
Answer: The third one is the correct statement.
Explanation: The third one is correct because if you notice in passage 1 line 2 and Passage 2 line 1 both authors are expressing how Newspapers are not that popular anymore and are quite irrelevant since we have internet and how whatever happens on that specific day and hour or two later and article about it shedding more light about situation/ scandal etc comes whereas we read it a day after like how in passage two it states why read todays news tomorrow. (The author is talking about the news paper).