Read the passage given below and answer the questions that follow. Just as you…
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Read the passage given below and answer the questions that follow.
Just as you can ruin the stomach and impair the whole body by taking too much nourishment, so you can overfill and cook the mind by feeding it too much. The more you read, the fewer are the traces left by what you have read : the mind becomes like a tablet crossed over with writing. There is no time for ruminating, and no other way can you assimilate what you have read. If you read on and on without setting your own thoughts to work what you have read cannot strike root and is generally lost. It is, in fact, just the same with mental as with bodily food : hardly the fifth part of what one takes is assimilated. The rest passes out in evaporation, respiration and the like.
When you read too much, the mind has no time to
Answer: A. ruminate — ConceptA direct-detail comprehension question is answered from the passage’s explicit wording, not from a broader consequence that a reader may infer. The…
- A.
ruminate
- B.
absorb
- C.
remember
- D.
More than one of the above
- E.
None of the above
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Correct answer: A
Concept
A direct-detail comprehension question is answered from the passage’s explicit wording, not from a broader consequence that a reader may infer.
The relevant clause must be matched to the action asked for in the stem.
Application
The passage says, “There is no time for ruminating.” The stem asks what the mind has no time to do, so the directly stated action is ruminate.
Contrast
Absorb is related to the later idea of assimilating what has been read, but it is not the action named in the no-time clause.
Remember is connected with the consequence that much of the reading is generally lost, but the passage does not use it as the action in that clause.
More than one of the above would require at least two listed actions to satisfy the exact no-time wording; the passage names one action there.
None of the above would apply only if the passage named no listed action, whereas ruminate appears explicitly.
Result
The answer is ruminate.