Direction: In the following questions, you have a brief passage with 5 questions following the passage. Read the passage carefully and choose the best answer to each question out of the four alternatives.
PASSAGE
Journalists argue over functions of a newspaper. I feel that a provincial paper’s purpose is not only to present and project the news objectively and imaginatively, but to help its readers to express themselves more effectively, canalizing their aspirations, making more articulate their demands. A newspaper should reflect the community it serves - warts and all. When the mirror is held to society it reveals neglect, injustice, ignorance or complacency. It should help to eradicate them. It would be pretentious to think that a newspaper can change the course of world affairs - but at the local limit it can exert influence, it can probe, it can help get things done. The individual’s voice must not be stifled. Instead, the readers should be encouraged to express their opinions, fears, hopes, and their grievances on this platform.
SOME IMPORTANT WORDS
(1) provincial (Adjective.) : local; connected with a particular area
(2) canalizing (Verb.) : give a certain direction to ; channelizing
(3) aspirations (Noun.) : a cherished desire
(4) articualate (Verb.) : to pronounce clearly and distinctly
(5) warts and all (Idiom) : including all the bad or unpleasant features of something
(6) pretentious (Adjective.) : trying to be something that you are not, in order to impress
(7) probe (Verb.) : investigate
(8) stifled (Verb.) : suppressed
(9) grievances (Noun.) : something that you think is unfair and that you complain/protest about