16) Which statement from the text BEST supports the idea that books about success are not useful?
A)
None of these statements support the inference that
books about success are not useful.
ccupation (such as
two ways in any
ng very good work,
simple to require
e high jump, either
somehow to pretend
eed at whist, either
ed cards. You may
a book about whist:
B)
You may want a book about jumping; you may want a
book about whist; you may want a book about
cheating at whist.
You may want to jump or to play cards; but you do
not want to read wandering statements to the effect
that jumping is jumping, or that games are won by
winners.
ist.
55. Especially you
those which you can
Che book-market. You
D)
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, which it is not for
me to say

Which sentence in this excerpt from leo tolstoy’s the death of ivan ilyich suggests that ivan ilyich aspired to be part of the elite in society from a young age? a.ivan ilyich was  le phenix de la famille  as people said.  he was neither as cold and formal as his elder brother nor as wild as the younger, but was a happy mean between them—an intelligent polished, lively and agreeable man.b.  even when he was at the school of law he was just what he remained for the rest of his life:   a capable, cheerful, good-natured, and sociable man, though strict in the fulfillment of what he considered to be his duty:   and he considered his duty to be what was so considered by those in authority.c.neither as a boy nor as a man was he a toady, but from early youth was by nature attracted to people of high station as a fly is drawn to the light, assimilating their ways and views of life and establishing friendly relations with them.d.all the enthusiasms of childhood and youth passed without leaving much trace on him; he succumbed to sensuality, to vanity, and latterly among the highest classes to liberalism, but always within limits which his instinct unfailingly indicated to him as correct.e.at school he had done things which had formerly seemed to him very horrid and made him feel disgusted with himself when he did them;