Read the sentence from the article.

We will preserve for our children this, the last best hope of man on earth, or we will sentence them to take the first step into a thousand years of darkness.

What does the phrase "will sentence them" convey in the sentence?

a sense of doom about the future

a sense of urgency about the future

a sense of anticipation about the future

a sense of violence about the future

I think its a sense of doom.

The correct answer is A. A sense of doom about the future.

Explanation

Doom is a term used to refer to a situation of misery, sadness, hopelessness and adverse situations of fate or the future. According to the above, the phrase "will sentence them" refers to doom because the character refers to an adverse situation for his children in the future. So, the correct answer is A. A sense of doom about the future.