Read the following excerpt from "Woman Who Helped Hide Anne Frank Dies at 100" by Teri Schultz.The diary of Anne Frank is a legacy Miep Gies gave not just to Otto Frank, but to the world. It's been translated into some 65 languages and remains one of the best read books internationally. To the end of her century of life, Gies said she thought with sadness every day about the friends she had lost. On her website she wrote it was her greatest sorrow that she and the others had been unable to save Anne, but she was pleased they'd been able to give the young woman two more years of life, and in that period Gies noted, Anne had written the diary with her message of tolerance and understanding.
Answer
A
“The diary of Anne Frank is a legacy Miep Gies gave not just to Otto Frank, but to the world.”
B
“It's been translated into some 65 languages and remains one of the best read books internationally.”
C
“To the end of her century of life, Gies said she thought with sadness every day about the friends she had lost.”
D
“. . . Gies noted, Anne had written the diary with her message of tolerance and understanding.”
Explanation
Choice A states that Anne Frank’s diary is a legacy Miep Gies gave to the world, which expresses the excerpt’s main idea: Gies’s lasting gift was preserving the diary. The other choices give supporting details about the book’s translations, Gies’s sadness, or the diary’s message, rather than the central idea.
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