The white elephant might symbolize the couple's unborn child in this story, If the phrase of white elephant means a property requiring much care and expense but yielding little profit. The couple’s unborn child is the one that the white elephant symbolize in this story.
1) forefathers
2)forewarn
3)foreground
4)foreshadow
5)forehand
6)forestall
7)forerunner
I would say D but that's just because I already know the definition of automation is the use of largely automatic equipment in a system of manufacturing or other production process.
