Nhận biết (M1)

Many writings by Sallust, a Roman historian of the 1st century BCE—among them his account of the Roman Republic, the Histories—have not survived. A reader ______ to take in one of Sallust’s surviving works, not one known merely through later writers’ references, might instead track down his Bellum catalinae, which chronicles an attempted coup.

Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?

• A.

  hoped

• B.

  hoping

• C.

  have hoped

• D.

  hope