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Read these lines: "The door of Scrooge's counting-house was open that he might keep his eye upon his clerk, who in a dismal little cell beyond, a sort of tank, was copying letters. Scrooge had a very small fire, but the clerk's fire was so very much smaller that it looked like one coal." Calling the clerk's room a sort of tank suggests it is
Awarm and rather cheerful
Bfull of water from a leak
Clarge and open to the street
Dcramped, bare and shut in
Answer & Solution
Correct answer: D. cramped, bare and shut in
1. The room is called a dismal little cell before the comparison is made, so the words around it are already bleak.
2. A tank is a small closed box with hard sides and nothing comfortable in it.
3. The fire in there is so small it looks like a single coal, which rules out warmth.
4. So the comparison marks the room as cramped, bare and shut in, option D.
_Source: Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol (1843), Stave I Marley's Ghost_
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