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Direction: in the following questions, you have several brief passages with some questions following each passage. Read the passages carefully and choose the best answer to each question out of the four alternatives.

Passage - V

He had never thought much about the origin of wealth nor about the inequity of human conditions. He firmly believed that if this world was evil, the next could not but be good and tins faith upheld horn. He was not like the clever fellows who sell their souls to the devil; he never took the name of God in vain; he lived the life of an honest man and though he had no wife of his own, he did not covet his neighbour's for woman is the enemy of strong men, as he learnt by the story of Samson which is written in the scriptures.

In this passage, the expression "he did not covet his neighbour's" means

A) he never showed any anxiety to possess his neighbour's wealth

B) as he had no wife of his own he eagerly desired to have a woman in his life

C) though he had no wife of his won he never showed any interest in the wife of his neighbor

D) he did not find his neighbour's wife attractive