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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said, looking ruefully at the fifty or more actresses and actors who milled about nervously, chatting with one another, or sat on the few folding chairs trying to read. most of them just haven’t got a chance. I can’t help feeling sorry for them—for all of us, I mean. After all, I’m trying for a part, too.” Peggy’s friend and housemate, Amy Preston, smiled in agreement and said, “It’s not an easy business, 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 to be in their shoes.” 2 not you can act,” she said. “They seem to be about Wishing each other good luck, they entered the student at the Academy when Peggy had started there, and he was a good friend of hers. She had worked with him before, as a general assistant, a table in a nearby coffeehouse waiting for Mal and Randy to join them, each was sure that she had been easy for him to consider Peggy for an acting role, and Afterward, as Peggy, Amy, Paula, and Greta sat at Peggy could only think of as their ordeal. “Oh, no!” Peggy said. “You two were just marvelous! his friends. If she was to get a role in this new production, she would really have to work for it. And if it was difficult for Mal, she thought, it was to do so completely without bias. It would not be a for her friendship with him was of a different sort than with Mal. Mal was just a friend—a good one, to be sure—but with Randy Brewster, somehow, things were different. There was nothing “serious,” she assured herself, but they had gone on dates together with a regularity that was a little more than casual and, whatever his feelings were for her, she Only when Amy started to laugh did the three others realize how much alike they had sounded. Then they joined in the laughter and couldn’t seem to stop. When they seemed at the point of dissolving helplessly into a permanent attack of the giggles, Randy and Mal joined them. was sure that they were more complicated than Mal’s. All at the same time, the girls started to reassure badly the actors, including themselves, had handled the lines, but this was so much like their last exchange of conversation that once more they broke up “They won’t go back to the rejects,” Peggy explained, “because they both have a pretty good idea each explaining how good the others were and how they asked me to try out!” 4 “Oh, they were just sweet-talking me,” Amy replied. and both girls broke into laughter that sounded odd with pleasant, if somewhat brisk, nods to the assembled actors and actresses, and a special smile for Amy and Peggy. In a businesslike manner, they settled themselves at a table near the windows, spread the chore that faced them. Amy, who was there to wished Peggy good luck, and joined the boys at the table. Her job was to take names and addresses, and to jot down any facts about each actor that Randy started?” After a brief glance at his notes, he called out, “First, I’d like to see businessman types, young forties. How many have we?” 5 Four men separated themselves from the crowd young men came forward, Peggy felt that she just was, she felt it was hardly a way to have to deal she joined the actresses in the rear of the room, and The girl smiled in understanding. “It always upsets 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.” I can get some kind of supporting role in this play, the female lead. I hope I have a chance for it.” appealing combination of strength and feminine softness. said. “Being friendly with Randy and Mal isn’t going to help me in the least, and I’m going to have to be more so for Randy Brewster, the author of the play, before the year was up, I’d come home and go back to college. I’ve been here for eight months now, and “My parents are very practical people,” Peggy said put in. “I know you were the best in your part, and on such short acquaintance, Peggy reluctantly stood care of the male roles. All of you who are left will be though they chatted amiably with one another, Peggy was sure that each was casting rather hostile looks toward others who were trying for the same parts. Keeping friendships in the theater was not an easy thing, she thought, particularly for people of similar physical types! of course, for the leading role. And, of course, it was join the others, Peggy whispered a word of encouragement, after the other of the girls, and occasionally asking expression hardly varied as he spoke to each Even if I don’t get a script, I’ll be there just to would be one of their most difficult roles to cast. Only four actresses came forward, and Mal, with smile, “but not for a girl so pretty that she’ll dominate Feeling lightheaded and giddy, Peggy settled herself on one of the folding chairs that lined Scarcely noticing the rest of the proceedings, she advantage, perhaps unfairly, over the other two girls. She had watched the script grow from its first rough draft to the finished text now in her hands, and had discussed it with Randy through each revision. She knew she could play the part secretly that Randy had written it for her, and the she knew. Mal’s sense of fairness and his absolute But despite this knowledge, she could not help The audience consisted of a handful of actors and playing the part for laughs, and although there were some comic values to be extracted from the role, it polite, invariable formula, “Thank you. We’ll let you Peggy watched the remaining actors try for the all. The same process was then followed for the leading men, and the same wide range of talent and understanding each other, and all were imitations of the early acting style of Marlon Brando. They seemed to forget, Peggy thought, that Brando’s style developed It made her angry that some actors thought they could get ahead in a creative field by being Each actor, no matter how good or how bad, was treated with impersonal courtesy by Mal, and each glad that she would not have to see their faces when 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 good, but that you just couldn’t take everyone!” “You can’t let yourself worry about that,” Randy 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 most of them have tremendous egos to protect 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 As she went up the aisle as unobtrusively as possible, Peggy glanced at the actresses who had just new friend among them. She decided to go out to the lobby to wait for her there. A new group of girls with a broad grin and a quick companionable kiss. it gave me a chance to work for a few weeks, “Housemates?” Paula questioned, a little puzzled. “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 “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>:
Why was it easy for the main female characters to be supportive of each other?

<options>:
A They all know they're unlikely to be cast because Randy and Mal are trying hard to not play favorites.
B They all know there will be other opportunities in the future they're likely to secure if they miss out this time around.
C None of them are auditioning for the same role, which is usually a major source of competition.
D They've all been friends for a long time.

<answer>:

C