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Adapted from Something to Worry About by P. G. Wodehouse

This was Sally Preston's first evening in Mellbourne. She had arrived by the afternoon train from London—not of her own free will. Left to herself, she would not have come within sixty miles of the place. London supplied all that she demanded from life. She had been born in London; she had lived there ever since—she hoped to die there. She liked fogs, motor-buses, noise, policemen, paper-boys, shops, taxi-cabs, artificial light, stone pavements, houses in long, grey rows, mud, banana-skins, and moving-picture exhibitions. Especially moving-picture exhibitions. It was, indeed, her taste for these that had caused her banishment to Mellbourne.
The great public is not yet unanimous on the subject of moving-picture exhibitions. Sally, as I have said, approved of them. Her father, on the other hand, did not. An austere ex-teacher, who let lodgings in Ebury Street and tutored on Saturdays in Hyde Park, he looked askance at the 'movies'. It was his boast that he had never been inside a theatre, and he classed cinema palaces with theatres as colossal time wasters. Sally, suddenly unmasked as an habitual frequenter of these places, sprang with one bound into prominence as the Errant Girl of the Family destined for failure. Instant removal from temptation being the only possible plan, Mr. Preston convinced himself that a trip to the country was indicated.
He selected Mellbourne because his sister Jane, who had been a parlour-maid to a retired general nearby, was now married and living in the village.
Certainly he could not have chosen a more promising reformatory for Sally. Here, if anywhere, might she forget the heady joys of the cinema. Tucked away in the corner of its little bay, which an accommodating island converts into a still lagoon, Mellbourne lies dozing. In all sleepy Hampshire there is no sleepier spot being a place of calm-eyed men and drowsy dogs. Things crumble away and are not replaced because tradesmen book orders, and then lose interest and forget to deliver the goods. Only centenarians die, and nobody worries about anything—or did not until Sally came and gave them something to worry about.

Read this sentence from the passage.

The great public is not yet unanimous on the subject of moving-picture exhibitions.

How does Mr. Preston's culture reflect his point of view?

A.
Many people had not gone to the moving-picture exhibitions in public and also felt they were time wasters.
B.
Some people in the general public did not agree there was a benefit in going to moving-picture exhibitions.
C.
Most people in the general public at that time did not like the idea of moving-picture exhibitions and agreed with Mr. Preston.
D.
The people who thought moving-picture exhibitions were great were in the minority and were not in agreement with Mr. Preston.

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Adapted from Something to Worry About by P. G. Wodehouse

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