Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions that follow : Passage-1
Students sometimes make heavy weather of their reading through not realizing that there are two quite different approaches to reading. In one we are concerned with details. We may be dealing with a detailed philosophical or mathematical or scientific argument; we must master each stage before proceeding to the next. We may be examining a poem minutely to see each tiny effect created by the poet’s choice and order of words, or wrestling with a difficult passage in Greek or German. Here we probably read every word, we certainly weigh every sentence.
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Students sometimes make heavy weather of their reading through not realizing that there are two quite different approaches to reading. In one we are concerned with details. We may be dealing with a detailed philosophical or mathematical or scientific argument; we must master each stage before proceeding to the next. We may be examining a poem minutely to see each tiny effect created by the poet’s choice and order of words, or wrestling with a difficult passage in Greek or German. Here we probably read every word, we certainly weigh every sentence.
But there is another sort of reading which is equally valid and equally important. In this we want to see an overall picture; we want to appreciate a play or novel as a whole; sometimes we want to give ourselves general background knowledge without worrying about details; sometimes we want to read quickly through a general work to see id there is anything relevant to a particular problem or subject on which we are working. Here we skim and skip; we take in whole paragraphs, even pages, at a glance; and it is nothing to read a 300 page book in a couple of hours or less. These two methods of reading are both important, and they must not be confused.
Extract: Students sometimes make heavy .....we certainly weigh every sentence.
Explanation:
Why do students make heavy weather of their reading?\
Ans: Students make heavy weather of their reading since they do not realise that there are 2 approaches to reading.
2. Which is the first approach?
Ans: The 1st approach is related to details.
3. What must we do in the first approach?
Ans: In the first approach we should master each stage proor to proceeding to the next stage.
4.How should we examine a poem?
Ans: We must examine its impact created by poet's choice and order of words or wrestling with a difficult passage in German or Greek .
5.Which is the second approach?
Ans: The 2nd approach is in which we see an overall picture.
6.What do we do here in the second approach?
Ans: We skim and skip.
7.What do we take at a glance?
Ans: We take in whole paragraphs, sometimes pages, at a glance.
8.What is nothing in a couple of hours ?
Ans: It is nothing to read a 300 page book in a couple of hours or less.
9.How do we find these two methods?
Ans: We find these two methods important.
10.Find the words from the passage which mean:-
(i)praise - Appreciate (ii)look briefly - Glance