Read the excerpt from Dispatches. You came to love your life, to love and respect the mere fact of it, but often you became heedless of it in the way that somnambulists are heedless. Being good meant staying alive, and sometimes that was only a matter of caring enough at any given moment. Based on the excerpt, which best describes a good soldier?
Answer
A
a solder who fights honorably
B
a soldier who is always vigilant
C
a soldier who accepts his fate
D
a soldier who is superstitious
Explanation
The excerpt says that being good meant staying alive, and that survival sometimes depended on caring enough in the moment. This suggests a good soldier must pay attention to danger and stay alert, even though soldiers can become heedless of their lives. So the best choice is “a soldier who is always vigilant.”
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