Comprehension
Direction: Read the following passages carefully and choose the most appropriate answer to the questions out of the four alternatives.
Passage
All art is, in an important sense, an escape. There is a sense in which the capacity to escape from his present experience, to use his accumulated consciousness of the past to project a vision of the future, is man’s greatest and distinguishing ability. We must not forget the force of Aristotle’s argument that poetry is valuable precisely because it shows men not simply as they are, but as they ought to be or (in terms more sympathetic to us today) as they are capable of becoming.
- The author believes that man’s greatest and distinguishing ability is
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his capacity to escape from his present experience
Correct Option: B
his capacity to escape from his present experience
- According to the author, all art is
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an escape
Correct Option: C
an escape
Direction: Read the following passages carefully and choose the most appropriate answer to the questions out of the four alternatives.
Passage
But the war did not cease; though friend and foe alike were almost drowned in blood. It seemed as powerful as eternity, and in time Tony Vassall too went to battle and was killed. The country gave Patience a widow’s pension, as well a touching inducement to marry again; she died of grief. Many people died in those days, it was not strange at all. Nathan and his wife got so rich that after the war they died of overeating, and their daughter Olive came into a vast fortune and a Trustee.
- Olive, after her parents’ death became
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rich
Correct Option: A
rich
- “............ as well a touching inducement to marry.” Here inducement mean
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encouragement
Correct Option: D
encouragement
- From this passage we learn that Tony Vassal was
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Patience’s husband
Correct Option: A
Patience’s husband