Question

select the best evidence to support the statement that the narrator has an immediate negative response to the house of usher.
during the whole of a dull, dark, and soundless day in the autumn of the year, when the clouds hung oppressively low in the heavens, i had been passing alone, on horseback, through a unusually dreary tract of country, and at length found myself, as the shades of evening drew on, within view of the house of usher. i know not how it was—but, with the first glimpse of the building, a sense of extreme gloom filled my spirit. i say extreme; for the feeling was unrelieved by any of that half - pleasurable, because poetic, sentiment, with which the mind usually receives even the sternest natural images of the desolate or terrible.
adapted from edgar allan poe, \the fall of the house of usher\

Explanation:

To support the statement about the narrator's immediate negative response to the House of Usher, we look for text that shows this response. The sentence "I know not how it was—but, with the first glimpse of the building, a sense of extreme gloom filled my spirit." directly shows the narrator's negative (gloom - filled) reaction right when seeing the house, which is an immediate negative response.

Answer:

The best evidence is: "I know not how it was—but, with the first glimpse of the building, a sense of extreme gloom filled my spirit."