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READING SECTION
Rend the passage carefully and answer the questions out of the options given
below:
It is true that there is no law that compels us to say 'please. There is a social
(10X2=203
practice much older and much more sacred than any law that enjoins us to be civil.
The first requirement of civility is that we should acknowledge a service. Please!
and "Thank you' are the small change with which we pave our way as social being.
They are little courtesies by which we keep the machine of life oiled and running
sweetly. They put our interaction upon the basis of friendly co-operation and easy
give-and-take instead of superiors dictating to inferiors. It is a very vulgar mind
that would wish to command when he can have the service for asking and have it
with willingness and good feeling instead of resentment.
If bad manners are infectious, so also are the good manners. If we encounter
in civility, most of us are apt to become uncivil; but it is an uncouth person who can
be disagreeable with sunny people. It is with manners as with weather. "Nothing
cheers up my spirits like a fine day," say Keats and a cheerful person descends on
even the gloomiest of us with something of the benediction.
It is a matter of general agreement that the war has had a chilling effect upon
these little everyday civilities of behavior that sweeten the general air We must get
those civilities back if we are to make life kind and tolerable for each other. We
can't get them back by invoking law. The policeman is a necessary symbol and law
is a the law is a necessary institution for a society that is still lower than the angles.
But the law can only protect us against material attack.
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Questions
i) The fist requirement of civility is
a) Please
b) Thank you
c) Please and Thank you
Answers
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Answer:
(c)
Explanation:
The first requirement of civility is that we should acknowledge a service. Please!
and "Thank you' are the small change with which we pave our way as social being.
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Answer:
(c) please and thank you
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