Comprehension


Direction: You have passages with 5 questions in each passage. Read the passages carefully and choose the best answer to each question out of the four alternatives.
PASSAGE
There were four of us – George, and William Samuel Harris, and myself, and Montmorency. We were sitting in my room, smoking and talking about “how bad we were bad from a medical point of view I mean, of course. We were all feeling seedy, and we were getting quite nervous about it. Harris said he felt such extraordinary fits of giddiness come over him at times, that he hardly knew what he was doing; and then George said that he had fits of giddiness too, and hardly knew what he was doing. With me, it was my liver that was out of order. I knew it was my liver that was out of order, because I had just been reading a patent liver-pill circular, in which were detailed the various symptoms by which a man could tell when his liver was out of order. I had them all. It is a most extraordinary thing, but I never read a patent medicine advertisement without being impelled to the conclusion that I am suffering from the particular disease therein dealt with in its most virulent form. The diagnosis seems in every case to correspond exactly with all the sensations that I have ever felt.
SOME IMPORTANT WORDS
feeling seedy : feeling dirty and unpleasant because of immoral or illegal activities.
impelled : forced.
virulent :extremely dangerous or harmful; showing strong negative and bitter feelings vertigo : the feeling of dizziness and fear, and of losing your balance.
garrulity : talkativeness : tribulation : great trouble or suffering. frailty : weakness and poor health

  1. The word which is closest in meaning to virulent is









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    hostile

    Correct Option: D

    hostile


  1. Harris was troubled by









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    symptom of vertigo

    Correct Option: A

    symptom of vertigo



  1. The author of the above passage seems to be suffering from









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    an unnecessarily dark, gloomy and pessimistic attitude to life

    Correct Option: D

    an unnecessarily dark, gloomy and pessimistic attitude to life


  1. Whenever the speaker read a liver pill circular









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    he felt sure that he had a liver disorder

    Correct Option: B

    he felt sure that he had a liver disorder



  1. The four felt down and out because









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    they thought they were ill

    Correct Option: C

    they thought they were ill