Comprehension: ( Que No- 1-5 ) Read the passage given below and then answer…
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Comprehension: ( Que No- 1-5 )
Read the passage given below and then answer the questions given below the passage.
Reading is one of the best disciplines I know of to stay "on your game" and at your highest. Reading from a great book is really all about having a conversation with the author. And we become our conversations. Just think, tonight by reading Mahatma Gandhi's autobiography, My Experiments with Truth, over a cup of coffee — you can get behind this great man's eye balls and learn what made him tick. Want to hang out with Madonna tomorrow? Grab her book. Same for Jack Welch, Mother Teresa, Bill Gates. And reading a book by someone you respect allows some of their brilliance to rub off on you. The hands that puts down a great book will never be the same. As Oliver Wendell Holmes observed: "A mind once stretched by a new idea can never return to its original dimensions." When I was growing up my father once told me: "Cut back on your rent or cut back on what you spend on food but never worry about investing money in a good book." That powerful thought has accompanied me through life. His philosophy was that all it takes is one idea discovered in a single book to lift you to a whole new level and revolutionize the way you see the world. And so our home was filled with books. And now I try to devote at least an hour a day to reading. That habit alone has transformed me. Thank you, dad. Perhaps my greatest gift to my children when I die will be my library. I have books on leadership, relationships, business, philosophy, wellness, spirituality, great lives and many of my other favored topics in it. Many of these I've picked up in bookshops from across the planet when I travel on business. These books have shaped my thinking. They have formed my personal philosophy. They have made me the man I am. To me, my books are priceless. The old expression is true: "Knowing how to read and not reading is almost the same as not knowing how to read." Make the time to read something good each day. Fill your mind with big ideas and dazzling thoughts. Use books to flood your soul with hope and inspiration. And remember, if you want to lead, you really need to read. Oh, and if you — like me, have the habit of buying more books than you can ever possibly read, don't feel guilty — you're building your library. And that's a beautiful thing.
Question:
Why does the author believe that reading Madonna's book would make us feel as if we are hanging out with her?
- A.
Because the author believes that reading a book is about having a conversation with the author
- B.
Because the author believes that books are the best means for candid confessions
- C.
Because Madonna's book is written in an interactive manner in which the reader feels as if he is talking to Madonna
- D.
None of the above
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Correct answer: A
In a reading-comprehension "why" question, the correct option is the reason the passage itself states for the effect described in the question, not a plausible-sounding reason invented from general knowledge. When a passage makes one general claim and then lists several people as examples under it, the reason behind every example is that same general claim, not something unique to any one example.
The passage's second sentence states the general claim directly: reading from a great book is really all about having a conversation with the author. Everything that follows, Gandhi, Madonna, Jack Welch, Mother Teresa, and Bill Gates, is offered as one instance of this single claim ("Want to hang out with Madonna tomorrow? Grab her book."). So the reason we would feel we are hanging out with Madonna by reading her book is exactly this general claim about reading, applied to her book like any other.
Checking the other options against the passage's own wording:
"books are the best means for candid confessions" is never stated anywhere in the passage; it is an invented reason.
the passage never describes any author's writing style, including Madonna's, as interactive; the closeness it describes comes from the general act of reading as conversation, not from a stylistic feature of one particular book.
this does not apply, since the passage does supply an explicit general reason that covers the Madonna example.
The passage's own stated reason, that reading a book is a conversation with its author, is the reason offered for every example it gives, including Madonna.