4. Read each sentence and answer the question that follows.

Any writer, I suppose, feels that the world into which he was born is nothing less than a conspiracy against the cultivation of his talent.

It is only because the world looks on his talent with such a frightening indifference that the artist is compelled to make his talent important.

How are the two sentences related?

A) The second sentence precedes the first one from the standpoint of importance.

B) The second sentence gives an example of what is stated in the first.

C) They are roughly the same length.

D) The second sentence explains the first sentence.

4. The correct choice is D.

Frightening indifference may explain the feeling of conspiracy felt by the writer in his/her struggle to cultivate his/her talent.