4 Select the correct answer.
What is the author's purpose in writing the passage?
A.
to explain the need for livestock and crops
to inspire political activism and revolt
to compare rural and urban lifestyles
to expose neglect of the poor and hungry
C.
D
excerpt adapted from A Tale of Two Cities
by Charles Dickens
A beautiful landscape, with the com bright in it, but not
abundant. Patches of poor rye where com should have
been patches of poor peas and beans patches of most
coarse vegetable substitutes for wheat.
Monsieur the Marquis in his traveling carriage (which
might have been lighter), conducted by four horses and
two guards on horseback, labored up a steep hill, A blush
on the countenance of Monsieur the Marquis was no fault
of his high breeding. It was not from within. It was brought
on by an external circumstance beyond his control the
setting sun. In effect, the sun was so low that it dipped at
that very moment,
But, there remained a broken country, bold and open, a
little village at the bottom of the hill, a broad steep and
rise beyond it, a church-tower, a windmill, a forest for the
chase, and a crag with a fortress on it,
The village had its one poor street, with its poor
tannery, poor tavern, poor stable-yard for relays of post
horses, poor fountain, all usual poor appointments. It had
its poor people too. All its people were poor, and many of
them were sitting at their doors, shredding spare onions
and the like for supper, while many were at the fountain,
washing leaves, and grasses, and any such small products
of the earth that could be eaten, Expressive signs of what
made them poor were not wanting. The tax for the state,
the tax for the church, the tax for the lord, tax local and
tax gend were to be paid here and to be paid there,
according to solemn inscription in the little village, until
the wonder was, that there was any village left
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The correct answer is,,,

A.

to explain the need for livestock and crops

to inspire political activism and revolt

to compare rural and urban lifestyles

to expose neglect of the poor and hungry

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"character is what you are in the dark." dwight lyman moody, in this very witty quotation of his, states we act and think differently when we are "in the dark", that is, when the spotlight is not on us and everyone can see us and consequently judge us. when reading, we tend to be sympathetic to some characters and their dilemmas. by being so, we are saying to ourselves that we agree with those characters' acts and choices, even if they are morally questionable if we have common sense in mind. dwight lyman moody's quotation applies very well to "crime and punishment", by   19th century russian writer fiodor dostoyevsky. raskolnikov, the main character, a former law student who spends his days reflecting upon life and its misery, draws a fatal conclusion: mankind is divided in two main categories: ordinary and extraordinary people. the first are the ones who lead a run-of-the-mill existence and are full of imperfections; the latter are the ones who are spiritually superior, the ones who always know better, and have the right to judge the ordinary ones, as well as eliminate them if for common good. raskolnikov considers himself as belonging to the extraordinary category and decides to kill an old lady who is a money lender and in whose house he rents a small room. raskolnikov compares himself to napoleon, who had the undeniable right to execute tons of people during the war in order to save his nation. of course what the main character decides to do is a horrendous crime, but as readers we feel it is the right thing for him to do, since the victim is a mean old woman who only thinks about money and keeps humiliating her younger sister. what one experiences is a mixture of sympathy and empathy for the character, even though he decides to commit homicide, which is not at all accepted or tolerated by civilized citizens. however, since readers are "in the dark", they allow themselves to feel in ways they would probably never dare to confess to anyone, no matter how nasty or vicious a character can be. after all, they are just reading and doing no harm. in other words, readers are in the dark and can be who they are without being judged.