Question

an unwritten novel virginia woolf 1 such an expression of unhappiness was enough by itself to make ones eyes slide above the papers edge to the poor womans face - insignificant without that look, almost a symbol of human destiny with it. lifes what you see in peoples eyes; lifes what they learn, and, having learnt it, never, though they seek to hide it, cease to be aware of - what? that lifes like that. it seems five faces opposite - five mature faces - and the knowledge in each face. strange, though, how people want to conceal it! marks of reliance are on all those faces. lips shut, eyes shaded, each one of the five doing something to hide or stultify his knowledge. one smokes; another reads; a third checks entries in a pocket - book; a fourth stares at the map of the line framed opposite; and the fifth - the terrible thing about the fifth is that she does nothing at all. she looks at life. ah, but my poor, unfortunate woman, do play the game! 2 as if she heard me, she looked up, shifted slightly in her seat and sighed. she seemed to apologise and at the same time to say to me, it only you knew! then she looked at life again. but i do - know, i answered silently, glancing at the times for manners sake. i knew the whole business. peace between germany and the allied powers was which best describes the meaning of these sentences from paragraph one? \one smokes; another reads; a third checks entries in a pocket - book; a fourth stares at the map of the line framed opposite; and the fifth - the terrible thing about the fifth is that she does nothing at all. she looks at life.\ a all five people seek to conceal their knowledge and emotions. b four of the five faces hide what they know about life, but the final face does not. c all five of the faces have knowledge and maturity to grade them. d four of the five faces reveal what they know about life, while only the fifth conceals that knowledge.

Explanation:

The passage describes five people. Four of them are engaged in activities like smoking, reading, checking a pocket - book, or staring at a map, which seem to be ways of hiding or stultifying their knowledge. The fifth person does nothing, contrasting with the others who are trying to conceal something.

Answer:

B. Four of the five faces hide what they know about life, but the final face does not.