The following text is adapted from Charles Dickens’s 1854 novel Hard Times. Coketown is a fictional town in England.
[Coketown] contained several large streets all very like one another, and many small streets still more like one another, inhabited by people equally like one another, who all went in and out at the same hours, with the same sound upon the same pavements, to do the same work, and to whom every day was the same as yesterday and tomorrow, and every year the counterpart of the last and the next.
Which choice best states the main purpose of the text?
Choose 1 answer:
Choose 1 answer:
(Choice A) To explain the limited work opportunities available to the town’s residents
A
To explain the limited work opportunities available to the town’s residents
(Choice B) To emphasize the uniformity of both the town and the people who live there
B
To emphasize the uniformity of both the town and the people who live there
(Choice C) To argue that the simplicity of life in the town makes it a pleasant place to live
C
To argue that the simplicity of life in the town makes it a pleasant place to live
(Choice D) To reveal how the predictability of the town makes it easy for people lose track of time
D
To reveal how the predictability of the town makes it easy for people lose track of time