In looking at the answer choices, a few can be dismissed immediately. From the passage it doesn't seem that the dismissal of the narrator's questions affects her too much. Therefore we can eliminate answers that show a drastic change in the narrator's emotions (the narrator feeling inadequate, lacking control, and fearing she may be doomed). The only answer left is that the narrator is dismissed. In gothic literature women are often seen as helpless, innocent victims.
The first step in reducing pollution is to acknowledge that there is pollution.
Without this step, we wouldn't even need to see pollution as a threat unless we <em>acknowledge</em> that it exists first.
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Great Britain should be the answer :)
