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Which excerpt from "how should one read a book? ” best states the author’s purpose?
most commonly we come to books with blurred and divided minds, asking of fiction that it shall be true, of poetry that it shall be false, of biography that it shall be flattering, of history that it shall enforce our own prejudices.
but if you open your mind as widely as possible, then signs and hints of almost imperceptible fineness, from the twist and turn of the first sentences, will bring you into the presence of a human being unlike any other.
thus to go from one great novelist to another—from jane austen to hardy, from
peacock to trollope, from scott to meredith—is to be wrenched and uprooted; to be thrown this way and then that.
but a glance at the heterogeneous company on the shelf will show you that writers are very seldom “great artists”; far more often a book makes no claim to be a work of art at all.

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The correct option is B.
What is the author's purpose? The author's purpose is to teach us how to read books. And in option B, the author explained that books should be approached and read with open mind. Reading a book with an open mind will allowed the reader to gain a deep insight about the book he is reading.

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The correct option is B

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I took the unit test not that long ago.

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thats exactly the right answer

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1. read the following excerpt from franklin d. roosevelt's "fireside chat 19":

on the other side of the picture, we must learn also to know that guerilla warfare against the germans in, let us say serbia or norway, us; that a successful russian offensive against the germans us; and that british successes on land or sea in any part of the world strengthen our hands.

remember always that germany and italy, regardless of any formal declaration of war, consider themselves at war with the united states at this moment just as much as they consider themselves at war with britain or russia. and germany puts all the other republics of the americas into the same category of enemies. the people of our sister republics of this hemisphere can be honored by that fact.

the true goal we seek is far above and beyond the ugly field of battle. when we resort to force, as now we must, we are determined that this force shall be directed toward ultimate good as well as against immediate evil. we americans are not destroyers — we are builders.

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