Question

all the days of my life: an autobiography by amelia edith huddleston barr (excerpt)
chapter xi
from chicago to texas
(1) one voyage across the ocean is very much like another, and the majority of my readers have doubtless taken several. some may even remember the old steamship atlantic, for i think she was making her regular trips when the war of 1860 began. the great difference between voyages rests not with the ships, but with the people you meet on them. we met good and evil fortune on the atlantic, and robert perversely chose the latter. the good fortune came in a mr. and mrs. curtis of boston. they had been to geneva, switzerland, to place their sons in some famous school there, and were returning home. it is fifty - nine years since we traveled together, but i have the clearest and pleasantest remembrance of them. mr. curtis and robert were much together, and mr. and mrs. curtis sat a great deal with me and my children, helping me to take care of them, and telling me about boston housekeeping and social life. i was charmed with her descriptions, and longed to settle in boston beside her.
(2) our evil fortune was represented by a man of about sixty years of age whose name i will not write. he had a military title and reputation, had
select the correct answer.
read the excerpt from paragraph 16.
(16) alas! an apprehended danger can not always be a defended one. i believed firmly that heaven chalked the line that brought us to new york. i saw no white road leading us to chicago. i felt that in turning away from boston we had lost opportunitys
what does the word golden mean as used in paragraph 16?
a. sparkling
b. flourishing
c. brilliant
d. perfect
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Explanation:

In the context, the author is talking about lost opportunities. "Golden" here implies something highly valuable or ideal, similar to "perfect". The other options like "sparkling", "flourishing", and "brilliant" don't capture the sense of an ideal or perfect opportunity as well as "perfect" does.

Answer:

D. perfect