The correct sentence is A) My car is old and gets bad gas mileage. Having bad gas mileage is an ongoing thing that will never change unless you get a different car, so none of the other choices make sense.
I think the best answer is 'it creates a mood of despair and surrender', but it could possibly be 'it suggests what the characters should be feeling'.
Explanation: john has only read two books, a scientific journal his mother acquired while working in the hatchery, and The Complete Works of Shakespeare. The name of the second book was The Chemical and Bacteriological Conditioning of the Embryo.
