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Comprehension
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Read the following passage carefully and answer the following questions:
Often students who are very fond of reading books are labelled by their comrades as book-worms. Those
disparagements generally come from the mouths of students who consider themselves as being gamesters,
Boys who shine in athletics or in the playing of some game-particularly cricket, consider that the games
field is a better or nobler arena for their activities and expenditure of their energies than the classroom or
the reading desk. The idea is bom out of an inferiority complex inherent in the game-minded students who
actually envy their fellows who shine academically. Academic honours have a glamour which is unique
It is not to be denied that the playing of games is a worthy activity, it is worthy in the sense that the
team spirit can be engendered in the individual only if he has learnt to participate in the playing of games
It is also true that the player does much for society and for his country on the playing field. It is true that
the feeling of cooperation can be cultivated in a person only through group activity. But studies should not
be sacrificed in order that students devote their time only to the playing of games. It is my observation that
the boys who become obsessed with playing, begin to ignore their studies and then their academic ability
suffers, as it must
Let each type of activity have its own place in our daily routine and only then, will the balanced division
of interests produce the individual with a proper perspective of things. Then will we have the student who is
both academically good and who can hold his own on the games' field. That is the personality that we want
our educational system to produce
. Pick out and write the phrase which indicates the importance of academic
achievement, from the passage.​

Answer 1

Answer:

With both their names is not acceptable to her. The poem slowly becomes garbled as the narrator falls to pieces. “It’s good you came. Sit here beside me. He really was supposed to get back Thursday. But we’ve got so many Thursdays left this year. I’ll put the kettle on for tea. I’ll wash my hair, then what/try to wake up from all this. It’s good you came, since it was cold there/and him just in some rubber sleeping bag/him, I mean, you know, that unlucky man. I’ll put the Thursday on, wash the tea/since our names are completely ordinary—”

There is heartbreak and defiance in the poem. You might even find yourself rooting for the woman – of course there are so many more Thursdays in a year. Simple details bring about strong emotion.