Do you think most of the news reports you receive are true? Why or why not?
How can you know for sure whether they are true?

There's a 50/50 percent chance that news report are fake. To tell if they are fake or not is how they address it. If it is one-sided and biased, it may be unreliable.

Explanation:

d. because santiago thought any sharks would assume the marlin was part of the boat

in this passage from chapter 6 of "animal farm", by george orwell, what the author is ridiculing in this passage is the frivolity of some rules.

clover, the mare, believes she remembers that the fourth commandment forbade sleeping in beds because it was something that humans did. snowball, napoleon, and the pigs are brain-workers who look after the welfare of the farm. they are the obvious leaders because they are smart, and so they are entitled to eat the best food and sleep in beds. it is squealer, who says these lines making the difference between sleeping with sheets, what humans do, and sleeping in beds, what pigs do. the unwillingness to question authority makes the oppressed to obey without thinking.