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English Passage 1.
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A list of articles lost by railway travellers are now on sale at the great London station has been published, and many people who read it have been astonished at the absent-mindedness of their fellows. If statistical records were available on the subject, however, I doubt whether it would be found that absent-mindedness is common. It is the efficiency rather than the inefficiency of human memory that compels my wonder.
Modern man remembers even telephone numbers. He remembers the address of his friends. He remembers the dates of birthdays. He remembers appointments for lunch and dinner. His memory is crowded with the names of actors and actresses and cricketers and footballers and murderers. He can tell you what the weather was like in a long-past year and the name of the provincial hotel at which he had a vile meal during the summer. In his ordinary life again, he remembers almost everything that he is expected to remember. How many men in all London forget a single item of their clothing, when dressing in the morning? Not one in a hundred, perhaps not one in ten thousand. How many of them forget to shut the front door when leaving the house? Scarcely more. And so it goes on through the day, almost everybody remembering to do the right thing at the right moment till it is time to go to bed, and then the ordinary man seldom forgets to turn off the lights before going upstairs.
There are, it must be submitted, some matters in regard to which memory works with less than its usual perfection. It is only a very methodical man, I imagine, who can always remember to take the medicine, his doctor has prescribed for him. This is more surprising because medicine should be one of the easiest things to remember. As a rule, it is supposed to be taken before, during or after meals, and the meal itself should be a reminder of it. The fact remains, however, that few of us remember to take our medicine regularly.
Certain psychologists tell us that we forget things because we wish to forget them, and it may be that because of their dislike of pills and medicines that many people fail to remember them at the appointed hours. This does not explain, however, how it is that lifelong taker of medicines like me is as forgetful of them as those who take them most unwillingly. The very idea of a new and widely advertised cure – all delights me. Yet, even if I have the stuff in my pockets, I forget about it as soon as the hour approaches at which I ought to swallow it. Chemists make their fortunes out of the medicines people forget to take.
The commonest form of forgetfulness, I suppose occurs in posting letters. It is so common that I am always reluctant to trust a departing visitor to post an important letter. So little did I rely on his memory that I make him promise before handing the letter to him. As for myself, if anyone asks me to carry the letter in my hand, I am always past the first letter box before I remember that I ought to have posted it. Weary of holding it in my hand, I then put it safely in one of my pockets and forget all about it. After that, it stays there, till a long chain of circumstances leads to a number of embarrassing questions being asked, and I am compelled to post the letter from my pocket. This, it might be thought, must be due to lack of interest in other people’s letters; but that cannot be the explanation, for I even forget to post some of the letters that I myself remember to write.
In trains and taxies, I can remember almost anything except books and walking sticks, which are quite impossible to remember. I have an old-fashioned taste for walking-sticks and I buy them frequently, but no sooner do I pay a visit to a friend’s house or go on a journey in a train, then another stick is on its way to the world of the lost. I dare not carry an umbrella for fear of losing it. To go through life without ever having lost an umbrella or handkerchief – has anybody ever achieved this?
On the basis of reading the passage, answer the following questions in 30 to 40 words: 2X4 =8M

Why are people astonished at the absent mindedness of their fellows?
Make a list of at least four things that a modern man remembers.
Why do some people not remember to take medicines?
How do chemists make their fortune?
Find words from the passage which have the same meaning as the following: 1X4 =4M
wealth (para 4)
at short intervals (para 6)
Which word in para 2 is the antonym of the word ‘deserted’?
Which word in para 3 is the antonym of the word ‘haphazard/disorganised’?

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