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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.

"To sell one's soul to the devil" means to

A) sell oneself to make both ends meet                    

B) suppress the voice of one's conscience and take to an immoral life                                         

C) sell one's honesty for the sake of monetary benefits      

D) buy evil by mortgaging goodness