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(a) Nowadays, nearly all sports we practice are competitive. We play to win, and the game has little meaning unless you do your utmost to win.
(b) In the village games, the question of prestige i.e. a sense of superiority would not arise.
(c) As soon as you feel that you and some larger unit will be disgraced if you lose, the most savage combative instincts are aroused.
(d) The significant thing is not the behaviour of the players, but the attitude of the spectators (audience) of taking such small absurd contests to such a level of seriousness and the spectators themselves are responsible for making sports mimic warfare.
(e)
(i) Synonyms of 'absurd' are weird, meaningless, useless.
(ii) Synonyms of 'significant' are very important, indispensable, irreplacable.
This passage is so important. It completely satirizes the demeanour of today's audience. The triggerability of the spectators of such contests is so mockable. Example, the India Pakistan matches.