1. PART A: Which of the following statements best expresses the passage's central idea?
A.
Americans worship money and build their entire lives around gaining more.
B. Success books do not help people be successful but they do promote senseless
greed.
C. Learning how to be successful in life cannot be taught because it is a natural
talent or skill.
D. All trends are silly when examined closely, so people should learn to think
independently.
2.
PART B: Which of the following quotes best supports the answer to Part A?
A. "I really think that the people who buy these books (if any people do buy them)
have a moral, if not a legal, right to ask for their money back." (Paragraph 1)
B. "Beyond the rules of the game it is all a question either of talent or dishonesty;
and I will undertake to provide either one or the other” (Paragraph 2)
C. "He merely wished to prostrate himself before the mystery of a millionaire. For
when we really worship anything, we love not only its clearness but its
obscurity." (Paragraph 4)
D.
"They do not teach people to be successful, but they do teach people to be
snobbish; they do spread a sort of evil poetry of worldliness." (Paragraph 7)