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Direction: Read the following passages carefully and choose the best answer to each question out of the four alternatives.
PASSAGE
Speech is a great blessing but it can also be a great curse for while it helps us to make our intentions and desires known to our fellows, it can also, if we use it carelessly make our attitudes completely misunderstood. A slip of the tongue, the use of an unusual word or of an ambiguous word may create an enemy where we have hoped to win a friend. Again, different classes of people use different vocabularies and the ordinary speech of an educated man may strike an uneducated listener as showing pride; unwillingly we may use a word which bears a different meaning to our listeners from what it does to men of our own class. Thus, speech is not a gift to use lightly without thought but one which demands careful handling. Only a fool will express himself alike to all.
SOME IMPORTANT WORDS
slip of the tongue : unintentional/careless use of words
ambiguous : having different meanings

  1. A fool will express himself alike to all kinds and conditions of the men because
    1. he wants to play with people.
    2. he wants to deceive everyone.
    3. he wants to amuse everyone.
    4. he lacks the power of discrimination in the use of words.
Correct Option: D

he lacks the power of discrimination in the use of words.



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