Question

Read the passage given below:
But when you are reading a thing as a task you need reasonable quiet, and that is what I
didn't get, Tor at the next station in came a couple of men, one of whom talked to his friend
for the rest or the journey in a loud and pompous voice. He was one of those people who
remind one of that story of Horn Tooke, who, meeting a person of immense swagger in the
street, Stopped him and said, "Excuse me, sir, but are you someone in particular? This
gentleman was someone in particular. As I wrestled with clauses and sections, his voice
rose like a gale and his family history, the deeds of his sons in the war, and his criticisms of
the generals and the politicians submerged my poor attempts to hang on to my job. I shut up
the Blue Book, looked out of the window, and listened wearily while the voice thundered on
with themes like these:
Now what French ought to have done ‘The mistake the Germans made.... If only
Asquith had... You know the sort of stuff. I had heard it all before, oh, so often. It was like a
barrel-organ groaning out some banal song of long ago.
If I had asked him to be good enough to talk in a lower tone I dare say he would have
thought I was a very rude fellow. It did not occur to him that anybody could have anything
better to do than to listen to him and I have no doubt he left the carriage convinced that
everybody in it had, thanks to him, had a very illuminating journey, and would carry away a
pleasing impression or his encyclopaedic range. He was obviously a well-intentioned person.
The thing that was wrong with him was that he had not the social sense. He was not a
clubbable man.
A reasonable consideration for the rights or feelings of others is the foundation of social
conduct. It is commonly alleged against women that in this respect they are less civilized
than men, and I am bound to confess that in my experience it is the woman sense. The welldressed woman-who thrusts herself in front of you at the ticket office. The man would not
attempt it, partly because he knows the thing would not be tolerated from him, but also
because he has been better drilled in the small give and take of social relationships. He has
lived more in the broad current of the world, where you have to earn to accommodate
yourself to the general standard of conduct, and his school-life games have in this respect
given him a training that women are only now beginning to enjoy.
I suppose the fact is that we can be neither complete anarchist nor complete socialists in this
complex world or rather we must be a judicious mixture of both. We have both liberties to
preserve our individual liberty and our social liberty.
Read the questions below and choose the correct option and write the same in your answer
scripts. (1*6)
1. The author was able to read
a. Well
b. Very well
c. Not well
2
d. Speedily
2. The author was travelling by
a. A railway train
b. A plane
c. A car
d. A ship
3. The man who spoke much was
a. Good
b. Bad
c. Well-intentioned
d. Evil-intentioned
4. Liberty means the same as
a. Libertine
b. Freedom
c. Liberate
d. Libra
5. The word drilled means the same as
a. Beaten
b. Dug
c. Scolded
d. Trained
6. The verb form of consideration will be
a. Considerate
b. Consider
c. Considering
d. Considered

Answer 1

Answer:

The answers to all questions are given in the explanation.

Explanation:

1) c. Not well

The author was not able to read well as a passenger on the train was talking very loudly throughout the journey.

2) a. A railway train

We can guess that the author was travelling by a railway train as there have been mentions of station and carriage.

3) c. Well-intentioned

It has been mentioned by the author that the man who spoke too much was well-intentioned as he wanted to give knowledge to everyone.

4) b. Freedom

Liberty can be taken as the synonym of freedom.

5) d. Trained

In the context of the sentence, the word drilled means trained.

6) b. Consider

The verb form of consideration will be considered.