Which phrase from the paragraph best the reader understand the meaning of the underlined sentence?

for a couple of years, beverly put out food for the cat next door. she thought her neighbors didn’t feed their cat enough or pay much attention to it. even though the neighbors had moved a few weeks before, beverly continued to put food out. she found it hard to change her behavior, but she told herself, “old habits die hard.”

a.
continued to put food out

b.
pay much attention to it

c.
had moved a few weeks before

d.
hard to change her behavior

Read the excerpt from the odyssey. then, his chores being all dispatched, he caught another brace of men to make his breakfast, and whisked away his great door slab to let his sheep go through—but he, behind, reset the stone as one would cap a quiver. the use of the epic simile in this excerpt readers understand that— they cyclops has eaten another bunch of odysseus men. odysseus and his men are still trapped inside the cave. the enormous stone is easily and routinely moved my the giant cyclops the cyclops takes his sheep out to pasture with him in the mornings