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The following text is adapted from Matthew Arnold’s 1869 nonfiction book Culture and Anarchy.

The Times [a British newspaper], replying to some foreign strictures on the dress, looks, and behaviour of the English abroad, urges that the English ideal is that every one should be free to do and to look just as he likes. But culture indefatigably tries, not to make what each raw person may like, the rule by which he fashions himself; but to draw ever nearer to a sense of what is indeed beautiful, graceful, and becoming, and to get the raw person to like that.
Which choice best states the main idea of the text?
A
The English are not as well known for their sense of taste as they ought to be.
B
Most people disagree with each other on what is beautiful.
C
Culture’s duty is to use scientific methods to determine what is beautiful.
D
One of the functions of culture is to create a consensus about matters of good taste.