Helps you with your classes and getting better at them.
-Bake
-Draw
-Write
-Practice a musical instrument
-Talk to strangers online (be careful with this one)
-Do something you've been putting off
B. “can read”
this is the answer because literate, in this article, is used as a synonym or kind of a smarter way of saying “are able to read”
The author is giving a sense of danger with dark clouds and with a gloomy setting.