B. A species of wasp that eats caterpillars is killed off.
Explanation:
Top of the Food Chain by T.C. Boyle is a story about human mistakes, written in a satirical tone to excuse the mistakes made.
Top of the Food Chain contains a series of events that happened after spraying an unsafe chemical called DDT to get rid of mosquitoes in Borneo. After the spray got rid of the mosquitoes it also killed a wasp that used to get rid off the caterpillars, the excess of caterpillars then caused the roofs to collapse, and they replaced it with tin. Then they ended with the flies, and the geckos ate them so they died and the cats ate the geckos, and got infected, and the people in the town were devastated because the cats were their pets, with the cats gone the rats went out of control and they flew cats from Australia to control the rat population and to keep the people happy.
B). "A species of wasp that eats caterpillars is killed off."
Explanation:
The short story "Top of the Food Chain" authored by T.C. Boyle highlights the selfish human faults and presents a social critique of the human tendency to defend or justify these faults lying within them.
As per the question, the action/event that occurs first in the story would be "a species of wasp that eats caterpillars is killed off" in order to exterminate the caterpillars. The rest of the options(collapsing of roofs, dying of cats, and flowing of cats from Australia) suggest an event followed by this one. Therefore, <u>option B</u> is the correct answer.
Readers should visualize Steve trying to start his car while a crowd of people watch him. He is not able to start it and is not sure why. He knows that it is not out of gas, because he just filled it. A woman asks him what it means.
