Which counterclaim and rebuttal would best strengthen the writer's claim?
There is some risk involved, but that is no different
than in other extracurricular sports.
More high school students are injured playing football
than in any other extracurricular sport, but some
athletes still want to play.
Football should be an extracurricular sport because it
teaches teamwork; however, if athletes become
injured, they are no longer part of a team.
Some students do not participate in extracurricular
sports, but that is because they have no interest in
them or in being part of a team.

1. find at least 9 adjectives from this opening passage used to describe the setting of the story- "to build a fire" setting: day had broken cold and gray, exceedingly cold and gray, when the man turned aside from the main yukon trail and climbed the high earth-bank, where a dim and little-travelled trail led eastward through the fat spruce timberland. it was a steep bank, and he paused for breath at the top, excusing the act to himself by looking at his watch. it was nine o'clock. there was no sun nor hint of sun, through there was not a cloud in the sky. it was a clear day, and yet there seemed an intangible pall over the face of things, subtle gloom that made the day dark, and that was due to the absence of sun. this fact did not worry the man. he was used to the lack of sun. it had been days since he had seen the sun, and he knew that a few more days must pass before that cheerful orb, due south, would just peep above the sky-line and dip immediately from view.