The news story says:
publishers print books.
which means almost the same as publishers?
a. readers
b. doctors
c. teachers
d. printers

the answer is c)printers!

Explanation:

the people who publish the newspaper are the same people that printed it, and it's definitely not readers, teachers, or doctors. so the answer is certainly printers.

postive, comparative, superlative - good, better, best

recall how we defined nouns as words capable of having plurals and possessive endings. adjectives (and their first cousin, the adverb) also have a feature that distinguishes them. they come in three states. first, the raw adjective—in its positive state—merely describes the noun modified; it doesn’t care about how this particular person or thing stacks up against other members of the same noun class

the author develops a cold, and scared tone. making the reader shudder with fear, and suddenly become cold. i'm guessing that he's writing a scary novel, or maybe about a chilly december night.