I feel like the central idea has more to do with how we affect nature. In the story, she states, "While nearly everyone else on the planet was cursing the soggy consequences of El Nino's downpours... " she uses a metaphor, basically that everyone else was complaining over El Nino's downpours while others were in awe.
The sentence that says Having done well on the test its describing something so the test is being described by the words Having done well.
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Is this one of those free point things or something if so thanks?