请教一个gre机经题目

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Eschewing today’s hovered-over kids as less plausible characters for an adventure story,
Rebeca Stead set her new children’s novel in nineteen-seventies New York to show children with a
great deal of .
A.autonomy
B.independence
C.resilience
D.self-assurance
E.sympathy
F.sensitivity

答案是A B 答案好选 但是怎么理解句子意思呢