Read the excerpt from the passage. He had pleaded hard to the Tribunal, in which some members were asleep and some awake, for his life and freedom.
Waylan is writing a paper on A Tale of Two Cites by Charles Dickens. Which of the writer's commentaries is supported by the
excerpt?
A. Doctor Manette argued passionately, despite the lack of attention from the members of the Tribunal.
B. As the original court system had been overthrown, Doctor Manette had no way to argue his case.
C. Because the story takes place during the French Revolution, there is no legal system.
D. Doctor Manette was confused about whether his son-in-law would be found guilty.

Match the definition to the word for a better understanding of the paragraph. 1 money does not buy happiness or security. 2john ringling, one of the five brothers of the ringling brothers circus, started out in 1884 with a trained horse and a performing bear. 3for over forty years, he worked hard at the family enterprise, bought up smaller circuses, and imported new acts. 4in the 1920s, he was rated as one of the world's wealthiest men and owned every sizable circus in the country. 5over 5,000 people were on his payroll, and over 240 railroad cars were in his retinue each time the circus moved. 6at the time of his death, however, he was a nervous, unhappy man; he was also bankrupt and beset by lawsuits. 7his carefully built circus empire passed into alien hands. 8all those years of work had turned to dust. 1. business organization alien 2. group beset 3. without funds to pay debts retinue 4. troubled or harassed enterprise 5. strange; belonging to another person, place, country, or thing bankrupt