Select the correct answer. What is the main idea in this excerpt from the essay "About Bathrooms" by A. P. Herbert? Of all the beautiful things which are to be seen in shop windows perhaps the most beautiful are those luxurious baths in white enamel, hedged around with attachments and conveniences in burnished metal. Whenever I see one of them I stand and covet it for a long time. Yet even these super-baths fall far short of what a bath should be; and as for the perfect bathroom I question if anyone has even imagined it. The whole attitude of modern civilization to the bathroom is wrong. Why, for one thing, is it always the smallest and barest room in the house? The Romans understood these things, we don't. I have never yet been in a bathroom which was big enough tido my exercises in without either breaking the light or barking my knuckles against a wall. It ought to be a big room and opulently furnished. There ought to be pictures in it so that one could lie back and contemplate them-a picture of troops going up to the trenches, and another picture of a bus-queue standing in the rain, and another picture of a windy day with some snow in it. Then one would really enjoy one's baths. And there ought to be rich rugs in it and profound chairs; one would walk about in bare feet on the rich rugs while the bath was running and one would sit in the profound chairs while drying the ears.
А. Bathrooms are meant to be functional, so it's silly to make them luxurious.
В. The perfect bathroom would allow one to enjoy the space in multiple ways.
C. The Romans were the best at building and decorating bathrooms.
D. Bathrooms are not made just for bathing and cleaning one's body. Reset Next