ENGLISH II TN READY ASSESSMENT (FINAL EXAM) Which sentence best expresses a central idea of passage 1?
O A. The artist Basil Hallward is so entranced with a portrait he has painted that he does not want to put it on public display
O B. Lord Henry, a patron of the arts tries to persuade the artist Basil Hallward to change the gallery he works with.
O C. Basil Hallward's earlier disappearance from London had caused a great deal of excitement in the city
O D. Basil Hallward risks his professional reputation by insisting that his work not be displayed

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serve the people! ,” smoothly translated by julia lovell, offers an initial sample of yan lianke’s writing to an english-speaking audience. a bluntly drawn, mildly erotic fable, it teases mao zedong by poking fun at a true believer who obeys the chairman’s precepts too literally. to a western sensibility, the broad strokes of yan lianke’s humor would seem to pose little risk of inciting rebellion, whether of the flesh or of the body politic. but then, part of the book’s attraction is that it doesn’t have a western sensibility. it lets the reader see — or rather, intuit — what jokes chinese officials don’t consider funny, and how very little it takes for a writer to be branded an incendiary in 21st-century china, more than three decades after the death of mao, a decade after the death of deng xiaoping and seven years since china entered the world trade organization, a move that would seem to signal a willingness (however wary) to mingle with the rest of the world.

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