Read the following passage and questions, then choose the right answer from options, the answer should be one of A, B, C, D.

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along, but assumed that I wouldn’t be available. “First casting calls are so difficult,” Peggy Lane “I’m lucky there,” Greta replied. “I’ve seen it said, looking ruefully at the fifty or more actresses and actors who milled about nervously, chatting with to read. “With only nine roles to be filled,” she continued, “it doesn’t matter how good these people are most of them just haven’t got a chance. I can’t help feeling Greta nodded decisively. “If you can act, you’re right now are Mal and Randy. After all, they have the unpleasant job of choosing and refusing, and a lot of these folks are their friends. I wouldn’t want not you can act,” she said. “They seem to be about through with the actors, and that means you’re on Wishing each other good luck, they entered the darkened part of the house and prepared for what Peggy could only think of as their ordeal. had worked with him before, as a general assistant, when they had discovered a theater. It would not be the part wrong. I thought I had the character clear in my mind, but I’m sure that the way it came out was a “You have a lot more talent than judgment,” Greta “I don’t know how you can say that, Greta,” Paula casual and, whatever his feelings were for her, she was sure that they were more complicated than Mal’s. “How can they hope to hear so many actors read for them in just one afternoon?” replied, glad to turn her attention from what was becoming a difficult subject for thought. “This is just a first cast call. All they want to do today is pick people for type. They’ll select all the possible ones, send the impossible ones away, and then go into elimination badly the actors, including themselves, had handled the lines, but this was so much like their last exchange readings later.” 3 are wonderful actors?” And if the people they pick aren’t good enough actors, cast that they have to go through a dozen calls just to find one actor.” With his tough face, like a movie gangster’s or private detective’s, and his gentle, cultured English voice and assured manner, he calmly gave his opinion of the afternoon’s auditions. “It seems kind of unfair, doesn’t it, to be eliminated just because you’re not the right physical there was no sense in my trying out at all, because I didn’t look or sound right for any part in the play. If I don’t get rid of this Southern accent of mine, I may never get a part at all, except in a Tennessee Williams play!” your age, and that’s nothing to feel bad about. If anybody ought to feel insulted, it’s me, because they asked me to try out!” cute or anything. I’m stuck with just being a South’n Belle, blond and helpless, po’ li’l ol’ me, lookin’ sad with pleasant, if somewhat brisk, nods to the assembled actors and actresses, and a special smile for table. Her job was to take names and addresses, and to jot down any facts about each actor that Randy and Mal wanted to be sure to remember. roles to cast, we’re going to do them first. I hope that out, “First, I’d like to see businessman types, young forties. How many have we?” 5 for leading man types, late twenties or early thirties, with human beings. Slipping back through the crowd of waiting actors, me,” she replied, “but it’s something we simply have to learn to live with. At least until we get well-known, or get agents to do this sort of thing for us.” 6 “I’m Paula Andrews,” the girl answered, “and maybe I’m shooting too high, but I’m trying out for the female lead. I hope I have a chance for it.” somewhat uncertain smile that played about her well-formed, generous mouth and the intelligence that shone from her large, widely placed green eyes. over at the Academy, I can always take a job as a to be an actress?” 8 Not wanting to press Paula further, and feeling that perhaps she had asked too personal a question the right type for the role. Perhaps some other....” and his voice trailed off in embarrassment. Lang, a short, thin, unhappy young man, answered whom I have chosen to hear. The part calls for it. I’m sorry.” and walked off, his head hanging and his hands thrust deep in his pockets, looking less like a though they chatted amiably with one another, Peggy was sure that each was casting rather hostile of course, for the leading role. And, of course, it was one to step aside to try for another role. His tough-looking expression hardly varied as he spoke to each to get the part! I know it!” attention to the “career woman, early thirties” classification would be one of their most difficult roles to cast. Only four actresses came forward, and Mal, with difficulty, reviewed them all. Unable to eliminate by type, he gave them all scripts and asked them to Peggy with complete lack of recognition. He gently eliminated three of them on the basis of hair coloring, height or general type. Another, curiously enough, was eliminated, like Amy, for a Southern accent, and a fifth, also like Amy, was too beautiful. smile, “but not for a girl so pretty that she’ll dominate so familiar with the play that she knew she had an advantage, perhaps unfairly, over the other two girls. knew she could play the part in fact, she suspected Peggy Lane would be discovered! 12 II The audience consisted of a handful of actors and actresses, and Randy Brewster and Mallory Seton. The stage lighting was a cold splash produced by two the theater was dark, empty and gloomy, a shadowy wasteland of empty rows of seats like tombstones. he would not do. He had somehow completely missed the character of the man he was portraying, or two.” 13 polite, invariable formula, “Thank you. We’ll let you know our decision in a day or two,” and called for role, and made mental notes of which ones were possible, which probable, and which stood no chance at all. The same process was then followed for the leading each other, and all were imitations of the early acting style of Marlon Brando. They seemed to forget, 14 Each actor, no matter how good or how bad, was they learned that they had not been selected. “The pity of it,” she whispered to Randy, “isn’t that there are so many bad ones, but that there are so many good ones, and that only one can be selected for each role. I wish there were some way of telling the good ones you can’t take that they were really replied. “The good ones know they’re good, and they’re not going to be discouraged by the loss of a role. And the bad ones think they’re good, too, and the actresses entering. They quietly found seats in whispered. “I’m looking for a girl I met at the casting call, and I’d like to chat with her for a few minutes come in. She recognized a few of their faces from the casting call of three days ago, but did not see her “Greta!” she cried. “What are you doing here?” “Come on out to the lobby, and I’ll tell you,” Greta ready to open Over the Hill Greta said. “ opened in New Haven to such bad notices that the producer decided call in a play doctor to try to fix things up, but he finally decided, and very sensibly, that it would be easier to just throw the whole thing out. I’m afraid “Not really,” Greta said. “The part wasn’t too “Greta, this is Paula Andrews. She’s reading for the to meet Greta Larsen, one of my housemates.” “Yes. There are about a dozen of us, more or less. We live in a place called the Gramercy Arms—a wonderful place—and we live like one big noisy family. The Arms is run just for young actresses, so we all have a lot in common. I haven’t seen Greta for play flopped,” Greta laughed, “and now I’m back in asked excitedly. “Uh-huh. I met him on the street an hour or so ago, and he told me he had a part he thought I should try out for, and that he was thinking of me for it all

<question>:
What role does Greta audition for?

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A Career woman
B Lead female
C Director
D Unknown

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D