Question

read the passage and then answer the question. in january 1925, several children in nome, alaska, got a terrible sickness called diphtheria. the closest place with medicine to treat the disease was in anchorage, which was 674 miles away. the only way to get from anchorage to nome was by dogsled. the path was extremely dangerous, but the governor of alaska found twenty dauntless dogsled teams to carry the medicine to nome. each team ran a section of the trail and handed the medicine off to a fresh team to carry it on to nome. the medicine reached nome after just six days. today there is a famous dogsled race called the iditarod. this race across alaska follows parts of the same trail that the dogsled teams took during their 1925 journey. what is the meaning of dauntless as used in the passage? brave funny wise cold

Explanation:

The passage mentions the path was extremely dangerous, yet the dogsled teams agreed to carry the medicine. "Dauntless" means not being afraid, which is closest to "brave" in this context.

Answer:

A. brave