clustering is an important prewriting technique because it you
a. formulate a topic for your essay.
b. release all the thoughts you have in your head.
c. decide what the tone of your essay should be.
d. generate ideas and see connections between them.

the sentence that best describes the tone of the passage from the radio broadcast compared to the passage from the book is b. the radio broadcast has a more surprised tone.

consider the text evidence: in the passage from the book, the description is more matter-of-fact. it is simply describing the things resembling little grey snakes, but there is no urgency in the description. on the other hand, in the passage from the radio broadcast, there is definetely urgency (you can tell from the expression used, "good heavens", which clearly indicates surprise.)