Question 4.
Read carefully the passage given below and answer the questions
that follow:
To my mind, the only sensible reason for reading anything is because
we enjoy it or hope to enjoy it. Of course, pleasure covers a whole variety
of feelings and shades of feeling. But it is my strongest belief about
reading that one should read only what one likes, and because one likes it.
I am talking , of course , of our private reading. When we are studying
special subjects, or working for examinations, we obviously have to read
a good deal that we would not choose to read in other circumstances.
It may seem odd to have to insist that one should only read because
one liked it but people read for such a queer variety of reasons. There are
people who read a book , not because they enjoy the book, but because
they want to be able to say that they have read it. They want to be in the
swim. Ten to one, when they read a book for those reasons, they only skim
through it, because all they really want to do is to talk about it as if they
had read it. There are people who set themselves down to read a book
because they think it will do them good. They make a duty of it, a kind of
penance. Sometimes they go so far as to set themselves so many pages at a
time. If it is some kind of technical book, which they are reading to
improve their knowledge, well and good. But if it is a novel, or a poem or
any part of what we call “ English Literature", then the person who is
reading it in this way is wasting his or her time.
You cannot take a good book as if it were medicine. It is rude to the
book, and very silly from our own point of view. By approaching it in that
way you make sure of losing anything it might have to give you. You only
begin to get good from a book when your spirit and the book's spirit come
together. A book is like a living person. You must meet it as a friend, and
actively like it, if any good is to pass between you.
A reason why people at school read books is to please their teacher
The teacher has said that this, that, or the other is a good book, and that it
is a sign of good taste to enjoy it. So, a number of boys and girls, anxious
to please their teacher, get the book and read it. Two or three of them may
genuinely like it, for its own sake, and be grateful to the teacher for
putting it in their way. But many will not honestly like it, or will persuade
themselves that they like it. And that does a great deal of harm. The people
who cannot like the book run the risk of two things happening to them: either
they are put off the idea of the book- let us suppose that the book was David
Copperfield- either they are put off the idea of classical novels, or they take
dislike to Dickens, and decide firmly never to waste their time on anything a
the sort again or they get a guilty conscience about the whole thing, the
feel that they do not like what they ought to like and that therefore there
something wrong with them.
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Complete question:
Read the above passage and answer the following questions:
1. What is the author’s belief about reading?
2. Enumerate the reasons for reading a book.
3. When do we get any benefit from reading a book?
4. Give a suitable heading to the passage.
Answer:
A1) The author's belief about reading s that one should only read what one likes.
A2) The reasons for reading are that some people read books so that they can say that they have read the book. Some people read books as they think it would do good to them.
A3) We can benefit from a book only when our spirit and the book's spirit comes together. As said a book is like a good friend and therefore we should meet it quite often.
A4) The title of the story can be 'reading'.
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