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""Why do they pull down and do away with crooked streets, I wonder, which are my delight, and hurt no man living? Every day the wealthier nations are pulling down one or another in their capitals and their great towns: they do not know why they do it; neither do I. It ought to be enough, surely, to drive the great broad ways which commerce needs and which are the life-channels of a modern city, without destroying all history and all the humanity in between: the islands of the past.""
(From Hilaire Belloc's ""The Crooked Streets"")
Based only on the information provided in the above passage, which one of the following statements is true?
(From Hilaire Belloc's ""The Crooked Streets"")
Based only on the information provided in the above passage, which one of the following statements is true?
Correct : b
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