Question
The following passage (Paragraphs 11-13) mainly shows that
Until this day, how well the house had kept its peace. How carefully it had inquired, 'Who goes there? What's the password?" and, getting no
answer from the only foxes and whining cats, it had shut up its windows and drawn shades in an old-maidenly preoccupation with self-protection
which bordered on a mechanical paranoia.
It quivered at each sound, the house did. If a sparrow brushed a window, the shade snapped up. The bird, startled, flew off! No, not even a bird
must touch the house!
The house was an altar with ten thousand attendants, big, small, servicing, attending, in choirs. But the gods had gone away, and the ritual of the
religion continued senselessly, uselessly.
A. The house was built to service humans, but it desperately tries to function as normal even without humans.
I B. The house was built by the humans for the gods, so no one has ever actually lived there.
C. The house is used to being left alone because it has been empty for many years.
• D. The house is afraid of everything around it because it just managed to survive the disaster,
Answer
A. The house was built to service humans, but it desperately tries to function as normal even without humans.