Por. Read this excerpt from Susan Butcher and the Iditarod
Trail.
Then, abruptly, Balto stopped. Kaasen shouted at him
to go on, but the dog would not move. Kaasen ran
forward to see what was wrong. Balto was standing in
several inches of icy water. They were on the bank of
the Topkop River, and the ice below was beginning to
give way. Had they continued, the team and sled would
have pitched forward into the river. Balto knew what he
was doing. As soon as Kaasen dried the dog's feet,
Balto made a turn and led the team around the river
and back to the trail.
According to the excerpt, the reader can draw
conclusions about sled dogs by making
inferences based on
icy water
sled dogs
sled drivers
snowy trails

most likely the answer would be a.) cupidity

definitions:

cupidity - greed for money or possessions

hydrophobia - extreme or irrational fear of water, especially as a symptom of rabies in humans

pathology - the science of the causes and effects of diseases, especially the branch of medicine that deals with the laboratory examination of samples of body tissue for diagnostic or forensic

patho -   relating to disease

a low four-wheeled open carriage of a kind formerly used in russia.

when making an inference, the reader should be sure to support the inference with

evidence

a is an educated guess about what will happen.

c. prediction

when new information proves that a reader's prediction is wrong, the reader should

make a new prediction based on the new information.