The answer is A.
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(Also sorry I'm a lil' late.... This will help other people with the same problem I guess... XD)
D: "<span>Then I could give instructions," she explained, "And have the machine follow them."</span>
Courage is a virtue seems like the answer, but I haven’t read the book. Though, I’m making an education guess because it takes courage to go to the moon.
Answer: regressing
Explanation: if a person degenerates, they are losing capabilities and their qualities are decreasing or declining. Basically things are getting worse.
Regressing is returning to an older, less developed state while progressing is getting better.
Degenerating and regressing are going backward while progressing is going forward.
Exposition provides reader with information, sometimes it is nonessential info and can be revealed simply with exposition dialogue