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The following text is adapted from Kenneth Grahame’s 1908 novel The Wind in the Willows.

The Mole has been found by a friend after getting lost in the woods. It is beginning to snow.

The Mole saw the wood that had been so dreadful to him in quite a changed aspect. Holes, hollows, pools, pitfalls, and other menaces to the wayfarer were vanishing fast, and a gleaming carpet was springing up everywhere, that looked too delicate to be trodden upon by rough feet.

Which choice best states the main idea of the text?

A

The Mole feels sad that his adventure in the woods is over.

B

After being found by his friend, the Mole is embarrassed about getting lost.

C

As the landscape gets covered in snow, it no longer seems threatening to the Mole.

D

The Mole prefers warm and dry weather to cold and snowy weather.