Read the passage given below and then answer the questions given below the…
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Read the passage given below and then answer the questions given below the passage. Some words may be highlighted for your attention. Pay careful attention.
Now, touching this business of old Jeeves -- my man, you know -- how do we stand? Lots of people think I'm much too dependent on him. My Aunt Agatha, in fact, has even gone so far as to call him my keeper. Well, what I say is: Why not? The man's a genius. From the collar upward he stands alone. I gave up trying to run my own affairs within a week of his coming to me. That was about half a dozen years ago, directly after the rather rummy business of Florence Craye, my Uncle Willoughby's book, and Edwin, the Boy Scout.
The thing really began when I got back to Easeby, my uncle's place in Shropshire. I was spending a week or so there, as I generally did in the summer; and I had had to break my visit to come back to London to get a new valet. I had found Meadows, the fellow I had taken to Easeby with me, sneaking my silk socks, a thing no bloke of spirit could stick at any price. It transpiring, moreover, that he had looted a lot of other things here and there about the place, I was reluctantly compelled to hand the misguided blighter the mitten and go to London to ask the registry office to dig up another specimen for my approval. They sent me Jeeves.
I shall always remember the morning he came. It so happened that the night before I had been present at a rather cheery little supper, and I was feeling pretty rocky. On top of this I was trying to read a book Florence Craye had given me. She had been one of the house-party at Ease by, and two or three days before I left we had got engaged. I was due back at the end of the week, and I knew she would expect me to have finished the book by then. You see, she was particularly keen on boosting me up a bit nearer her own plane of intellect. She was a girl with a wonderful profile, but steeped to the gills in serious purpose. I can't give you a better idea of the way things stood than by telling you that the book she'd given me to read was called 'Types of Ethical Theory', and that when I opened it at random I struck a page beginning:
Aunt Agatha describes Jeeves as the ‘keeper’ of the author. What does it mean?
- A.
A procurer
- B.
A therapist
- C.
A man who cooks and cleans
- D.
A man who looks after something
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Correct answer: D
Answer: A man who looks after something
Why: The narrator explains that he is very dependent on Jeeves and that Jeeves manages his affairs. Aunt Agatha calling Jeeves his 'keeper' therefore means someone who looks after or takes care of him.
Procurer is incorrect: it means someone who obtains or supplies things, not someone who cares for a person.
Therapist is incorrect: a therapist provides medical or psychological treatment, which is not what the passage describes.
A man who cooks and cleans is too narrow: although a valet may do domestic tasks, 'keeper' here emphasizes looking after and managing the narrator rather than only household chores.