21.

B - residents of the local area

It’ll be published in the city, to encourage people to come and find out
something of what goes on here.
22. D - potential new students
… people who are considering applying to study here next year.
23. C - His novels are well-known now.
Most people have heard of him and have probably read some of his novels, or
seen films based on them..
24. B - He used his publications to draw attention to social issues.
And his novels show the awful conditions that most people had to live in, don’t
they? He wanted to shock people into doing something about it.
25. G - medicine
...a character who keeps falling asleep, and the medical condition was named
after the book - Pickwickian Syndrome.
26. B - education
...very few children went to school, particularly not poor children, so they
learned in other ways.
27. D - entertainment
We could do something on theatres and other amusements of the time.
28. C - Dickens’s travels
He does go to the USA, doesn’t he? Yes, and Dickens himself had been there a
year before and drew on his experience there in the novel.
29. H - a woman’s life
That’s true, but think about Esther, the heroine.
30. F - wealth
… the part when Mr. Dorrit inherits a fortune, and he starts pretending he’s
always been rich? Good idea.