```Read the passage below and answer the questions that follow
This book consists of lectures given by me at Cambridge. Although they have been largely rewritten. I have kept a good deal of their original lecture - form as being (I hope) rather less formal and less dogmatic. for to dogmatism, those written on language seem. for some reason, particularly prone; and I should like to make it clear at once that, if at times I have put my own views strongly. I do not forget that such matters of taste must remain mere matters of opinion. In addition, I have included a good specimen passages from various authors. Perhaps I have quoted too much. But a book on style without abundant examples seems to me as ineffectual as a book on art, or biology without abundant illustrations. Many of these passages are in French. That may be Gallomania on my part; and I must apologize if they trouble some readers. But some ability to read French prose does seem to me most desirable for anyone who would write well in English. I have tried to choose pieces not too difficult in syntax or vocabulary. And in these days less than ever can we afford to be insular ```
To write English well the author says, it is helpful to

• A.be able to write French fairly well
• B.be able to read french fairly well
• C.know French thoroughly
• D.be able to read English well
• E.do all of the above