input: Text: <unk>?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> PEGGY PLAYS OFF-BROADWAY I Cast Call “First casting calls are so difficult,” Peggy Lane said, looking ruefully at the fifty or more actresses and actors who milled about nervously, chatting with one another, or sat on the few folding chairs trying to read. “With only nine roles to be filled,” she continued, “it doesn’t matter how good these people are; most of them just haven’t got a chance. I can’t help feeling sorry for them—for all of us, I mean. After all, I’m trying for a part, too.” Peggy’s friend and housemate, Amy Preston, smiled in agreement and said, “It’s not an easy business, honey, is it? But the ones I feel sorriest for right now are Mal and Randy. After all, they have the unpleasant job of choosing and refusing, and a lot of these folks are their friends. I wouldn’t want to be in their shoes.” 2 Peggy nodded thoughtfully, and reflected that it must, indeed, be more wearing on the boys. Mallory Seton, director of the new play, had been an upper-class student at the Academy when Peggy had started there, and he was a good friend of hers. She had worked with him before, as a general assistant, when they had discovered a theater. It would not be easy for him to consider Peggy for an acting role, and to do so completely without bias. It would not be a question of playing favorites, Peggy knew, but quite the reverse. Mal’s sense of fair play would make
  Question: Of the following options, which best summarizes this story?
  
   (A) A woman auditions for her friend's play and gains perspective for what her future as an actress might be like.
   (B) A woman auditions for her friend's play and makes friends and connections in the process.
   (C) A woman auditions for her friend's play and wants to prove to her friend that he should write a role for her in the future.
   (D) A woman auditions for her friend's play and has a lot of fun seeing the audition process.
  Answer:
output: A woman auditions for her friend's play and makes friends and connections in the process.