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Direction for question: You have a passage followed by questions based on it. Read the passage carefully and choose the best answer to each question out of the four alternatives.

The first step is for us to realise that a city need not be a frustrator of life. It can be among other things, a mechanism for enhancing life, for producing possibilities of living which are not to be realized except through cities. But for that to happen, deliberate and drastic planning is needed. Towns as much as animals, must have their systems of organs-those for transport and circulation are on obvious example. What we need now are organ system for recreation, leisure, culture, community expression. This means abundance of open space, easy access to unspoilt nature, beauty in parks and in fine buildings, gymnasia and swimming baths and recreation grounds in plenty, central spaces for celebrations and demonstrations, halls for citizenship, meetings concert halls and theatres and cinemas that belong to the city. And the buildings must not be built anyhow or dumped down anywhere; both they and their groupings should mean something important to the people of the place.

According to this passage, the function of a city is to-

A)  raise the tone of life and make it more meaningful.

B)  make available centres of recreation and public gatherings.

C)  facilitate traffic and communication.

D)  provide adequate community expression.