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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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