Read the passage given below and pick the option that best fits the question that follows:

The New Year is a time for resolutions. Mentally at least, most of us could compile formidable lists of do's and dont's. The same old favourites recur year in and year out with monotonous regularity. Past experience has taught us that certain accomplishments are beyond attainment. If we remain inveterate smokers, it is only because we have so often experienced to frustration that results from failure. Most of us fail in our efforts at self improvement because our schemes are too ambitious and we never have time to carry them out. We also make the fundamental error of announcing our resolutions to everybody so that we look even more foolish when we slip back into our old bad ways.

The author seems to imply that many are inveterate smokers because

they have not really tried to give up smoking

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they know from past experience that they can never succeed in their attempt to give up

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they want to forget the frustration of not smoking

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they do not have the will power to stop smoking

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Solution

The correct option is A they have not really tried to give up smoking
In this passage, the author has tried to illustrate humans' habit to going back to their habits and being unable to hold true to our actions, despite numerous trials and failures. Option A is correct in assuming that many have not succeeded in giving up smoking simply because they haven't tried hard enough, trying to test their limits and being confined in those limitations. Options B,C and D do not convey the same resilience that the author has tried to convey. For that, option A is the correct answer.

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