Question

Once a certain king had an idea. If he always knew the right time to begin everything, if he

knew who were the right people to listen to, and who to avoid the most, he would never fail in

anything that he would undertake. Since he was convinced that he was right in thinking this way,

he had a proclamation made in his kingdom. He would give a great reward to anyone who

would teach him what the right time was for every action, who the most necessary people were,

and how he might know the most important thing to do. Many learned people came to the court

but they all gave different answers. In reply to the first question, some said that to know the right

time for every action, one must draw up in advance a table of days, months and years, and must

live strictly according to it. Others declared that it was impossible to decide beforehand the

right time for every action; but that, not letting oneself be absorbed in idle pastimes, one should

always attend to all that was going on, and then do that which was most essential. Yet others

said that it was impossible for one man to decide correctly the right time for every action and

that the king should, instead, have a council of wise people, who would help him to fix the

proper time for everything.





Find words from the passage which mean :

a) Official announcement

b) A thing given in recognition of service

c) An activity done regularly as a hobby

d) An advisory formal body​

Answer 1

Answer:

a) proclamation

b) reward

c)idle past times

d)council of wise people