Direction: You have two brief passages with 5 questions following each passage. Read the passages carefully and choose the best answer to each question out of the four alternatives.
PASSAGE
Our awareness of time has reached such a pitch of intensity that we suffer acutely whenever our travels take us into some corner of the world where people are not interested in minutes and seconds. The unpunctuality of the orient, for example is appalling to those who come freshly from a land of fixed meal-times and regular train services. For a modern American or Englishman, waiting is a psychological torture. An Indian accepts the blank hours with
resignation, even with satisfaction. He has not lost the fine art of doing nothing. Our notion of time as a collection of minutes, each of which must be filled with some business or amusement, is wholly alien to the Greek. For the man who lives in a pre-industrial world, time moves at a slow and easy pace; he does not care about each minute, for the good reason that he has not been made conscious of the existence of minutes.
SOME IMPORTANT WORDS
orient :the countries of Asia, especially of eastern Asia, (China, Japan, Russia, etc.)
appalling : shocking; extremely bad.
notion : an idea, a belief or an understanding of something.
alien : not usual or acceptable. pitch : the highest point of something
intensity : the strength of something
acutely : to a severe and dangerous degree
torture : mental/physical suffering blank
hours: leisure/empty time