Read the following passage carefully before you choose your answer.
This passage is excerpted from an essay written in nineteenth-century England.
Literally and truly, one cannot get on well in the world without money. To be in want of it, is to pass through life with little credit or pleasure it
Is to live out of the world, or to be despised if you come into it it is not to be sent for to court, or asked out to dinner, or noticed in the street; it
is not to have your opinion consulted or else rejected with contempt, to have your acquirements carped at and doubted, your good things
disparaged, and at last to lose the wit and the spirit to say them; it is to be scrutinized by strangers, and neglected by friends; it is to be a thrall
to circumstances, an exile in one's own country; to forego leisure, freedom, ease of body and mind to be dependent on the good will and
caprice of others, or earn a precarious and irksome livelihood by some laborious employment
; it is to be compelled to stand
behind a counter,
or to sit at a desk in some public office, or to marry your landlady, or not the person you would wish; or to go out to the East or West Indies, or
to get a situation as judge abroad, and return home with a liver-complaint or to be a law-stationer, or a scrivener or scavenger, or newspaper
reporter, or to read law and sit in court without a brief, or to be deprived of the use of your fingers by transcribing Greek manuscripts, or to be
a seal-engraver and pore yourself blind; or to go upon the stage, or try some of the Fine Arts, with all your pains, anxiety, and hopes, and most
probably to fail, or, if you succeed, after the exertions
of years, and undergoing constant distress of mind and fortune, to be assailed on every
side with envy, back-biting, and falsehood, or to be a favourite with the public for awhile, and then thrown into the background-or a gaol*, by
the fickleness of taste and some new favourite; to be full of enthusiasm and extravagance in youth, of chagrin and disappointment in after-life:
to be jostled by the rabble because you do not ride in your coach, or avoided by those who know your worth and shrink from it as a claim on
their respect or their purse, to be a burden to your relations, or unable to do anything for them to be ashamed to venture into crowds; to have
cold comfort at home, to lose by degrees your confidence and any talent you might possess; to grow crabbed, morose, and querulous,
dissatisfied with every one, but most so with yourself, and plagued out of your life, to look about for a place to die in, and quit the world
without any one's asking after your will. The wiseacres will possibly, however, crowd round your coffin, and raise a monument at a
considerable expense, and after a lapse of time, to commemorate your genius and your misfortunes!
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Which of the following best describes how the thesis of the passage is conveyed?
It begins as a simple statement and then is briefly qualified with technical examples.
It evolves and becomes more explicit as the passage develops.
Oc It is expressed in the closing sentence after an accumulation of examples.
Od It is presented as a concrete proposal for desperately needed change.
It is stated explicitly at the beginning followed by an extended definition as support
a
ооо
b
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