Which of the following inferences is best supported by the following passage Paragraphs 39-42)?
"At ten o'clock the house began to die.
The wind blew. A falling tree bough crashed through the
kitchen window. Cleaning solvent, bottled, shattered over the
stove. The room was ablaze in an instant! "Firel" screamed a
voice. The house lights flashed, water pumps shot water from
the ceilings. But the solvent spread on the linoleum, licking,
eating, under the kitchen door, while the voices took it up in
chorus: "Fire, fire, fire!"
The house tried to save itself. Doors sprang tightly shut, but the
windows were broken by the heat and the wind blew and
sucked upon the fire.
The house gave ground as the fire in ten billion angry sparks
moved with flaming ease from room to room and then up the
stairs. While scurrying water rats squeaked from the walls,
pistoled their water, and ran for more. And the wall sprays let
down showers of mechanical rain."
A. The house dies because it gives up hope that the family will ever
return
B. The house would have burned even if the family had been alive.
C. The house falls apart because it has not been maintained by
humans
D. The house would have been saved if the family had been there.