Which line from “cruel tribute” best supports the idea that ariadne’s actions advance the plot?

and now they passed close by the palace gate, and in it stood king minos himself, and his daughter ariadne, the fairest of the women of crete.
ariadne said no more; and yet she thought that she had never seen any one who looked so much like a hero as young theseus.
all through that night ariadne lay awake and thought of the matchless hero, and grieved that he should be doomed to perish.
then she gave him a sharp sword, and hid it underneath his cloak, telling him that with it alone could he hope to slay the minotaur.

b.science

explanation:

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serve the people! ,” smoothly translated by julia lovell, offers an initial sample of yan lianke’s writing to an english-speaking audience. a bluntly drawn, mildly erotic fable, it teases mao zedong by poking fun at a true believer who obeys the chairman’s precepts too literally. to a western sensibility, the broad strokes of yan lianke’s humor would seem to pose little risk of inciting rebellion, whether of the flesh or of the body politic. but then, part of the book’s attraction is that it doesn’t have a western sensibility. it lets the reader see — or rather, intuit — what jokes chinese officials don’t consider funny, and how very little it takes for a writer to be branded an incendiary in 21st-century china, more than three decades after the death of mao, a decade after the death of deng xiaoping and seven years since china entered the world trade organization, a move that would seem to signal a willingness (however wary) to mingle with the rest of the world.

answer: b) bubbling its way

explanation: an adjective is a word or a group of words that modifies a noun (name, thing, place,

in this case, the first option "to heartily enjoy" isn't describing or modifying any noun, the third option "hiking along merrily" is describing an action but it doesn't modify any noun, the last option "beside us" is just a preposition that indicates position, so the correct answer is the second one: "bubbling its way" because it is modifying the noun "stream".