Discussion
Based only on the information provided in the above passage, which one of the following statements is true?
Answer: B
The true statement is the wealthier nations are pulling down the crooked streets in their capitals.
The passage says so directly: “Every day the wealthier nations are pulling down one or another in their capitals and their great towns”.
Option A misreads the opening: the author wonders why crooked streets are pulled down, and says the streets, not the wondering, are his delight. Option C is not stated; the “islands of the past” are what remains of old streets between the broad ways, not places where crooked streets were built. Option D reverses the argument: the broad ways are what commerce needs, and the author says they can be driven without destroying history, so they are not needed to protect it.
The passage is from an essay by Hilaire Belloc titled “The Crooked Streets”; the collection it appears in could not be confirmed.
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