The answer is B, understand the plot.
As the title suggests, a treasure, but more specifically alluded in the plot, it's the pirates'treasure . However, a treasure is always the symbol to depict the immorality of that age when Stevenson wrote this novel of adventures.
The recurrence of words and phrases for a specific effect
Answer:
Emerson warns that friendship is “too good to be believed,” because one can never truly know another person; to Emerson, there is a “strict science” that keeps all persons in “remoteness” from one another. Because a person cannot know another person completely, friendship then is based on an imagined concept.
D is the correct answer. You can omit as many words as you want, as long as 'the meaning and spirit of the quote is retained', that is, the general sense you wanted to convey with that quote is still there, even after you deleted those several words.
