A school in Connecticut once held "a day devoted to the arts," and I was asked if I would come and talk about writing as a vocation [1]. When I arrived I found that a
second speaker has been invited - Dr. Brock (as I'll call him), a surgeon who had
recently begun to write and had sold some stories to magazines. He was going to
talk about writing as an avocation [2]. That made us a panel, and we sat down to
face a crowd of students and teachers and parents, all eager to learn the secrets of
our glamorous [3] work. [4]

Is the writer being serious or sarcastic when he uses the phrase "glamorous work"? What is he implying?

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the correct answer is option d. none of these. it is noted that options a, b, and c share the same content.

despite the valid answer provided at the last sentence of each of the options, a question/answer format shouldn't include humourous themed responses such as "you bet your thermal pj's we do." - unless of course, the answer is carried out in an informal environment. this could be replaced with a simple "yes" or "it is necessary".

the question should be re-phrased to a more appropiate syntaxis. instead of "do we need the greenhouse effect? ", it should be written as "is the greenhouse effect necessary? " in order to give it a general scope, instead of limiting the answer to the needs of "we" the humans.

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