Question : Read the passage and answer the following questions. All great thinkers live and move on a high plane of thought. It is only there they can breathe freely. it is only in contact with spirits like themselves they can live harmoniously and attain that serenity which comes from ideal companionship. The studies of all great thinkers must range along the highest altitudes of human thoughts' have always thought that the strongest argument in favor of the Baconian theory was, that no man, however indubitable his genius, could have written the plays and sonnets that have come down to us under Shakespeare's own name who had not the liberal education of Bacon. The magnificent ideals that have ever haunted of though the human mind and given us our highest proofs of future immortality by reason of the impossibility of their fulfillment here are splintered into atoms by contact with life's realities. Hence Comes our sublime discontent's habitual mediation on the vast problems that underline human life and are knit into human destinies-thoughts of immortality, of the littleness to the mere man, of the greatness of man' soul, of the splendors of the universe that are invisible to the ordinary traffickers in the street, as the vastness of St. Peter's is to the spider that weaves her web in a corner of the dome-these things do not fir men to understand the arrange humanity is easy to understand, therefore, Why such thinkers fly to the solitude of their own thoughts, or he the silent companionship of the immortals and if they care to present their verse to the world that these views take a somber and melancholy setting from "the pale cast of thought" in which they were engendered.
Question: According to the passage, we can say that great thinkers are content to live______
Option 1: In the middle of crisis of civilizations
Option 2: In their thoughts, with an exceptional calm.
Option 3: At secluded mountains away from society.
Option 4: With the complexities and madness of life.
Correct Answer: In their thoughts, with an exceptional calm.
Solution : The appropriate response is 2.
In their thoughts, with an exceptional calm.
Explanation
"Why such thinkers fly to the solitude of their own thoughts, or he the silent companionship of the immortals and if they care to present their verse to the world that these views take a somber and melancholy setting from "the pale cast of thought" in which they were engendered." is mentioned. - Therefore, great thinkers are happy to keep their ideas to themselves because if they share them with others, it will be obvious where their ideas came from—weak displays of thought.
Question:
Why do great thinkers love the idea of solitude?
Option 1: To be in pursuit of the ideal in the company of immortals
Option 2: To be calm and have peace of mind.
Option 3: Because they are introvert
Option 4: Because they are unable to deal with the complexities of life
Who is the one in the constant search behind the crucial idea of immortality?
Option 1: Ordinary Speculator
Option 2: Great Thinkers
Option 3: Person who has surrendered himself to god.
Option 4: Scientists
What is referred as Baconian liberal education?
Option 1: An imaginary and ideal fantasy.
Option 2: Theory of acing human beings rue over their fate.
Option 3: Involvement with the complexities of the day to day life.
Option 4: Equivalent to ancient ideas of sublimity
According to the passage, what is the primary reason to our sublime discontent
Option 1: The conscious realization that we lack contact with god.
Option 2: Sense of solitude in this harsh world.
Option 3: Attainment of immortality through some source and the inability to get through the same.
Option 4: The contrast between the ideals in great literature and their opposite in the real life
Question : In the following question, a set of labelled sentences is given. Out of the four alternatives, select the most logical order of the sentences to form a coherent paragraph. 1) AIDS is a disease caused by a virus called HIV. P. This result in the victim's inability to defend themselves from any infections leading to death. Q. This disease destroys part of the body's immune system. R. AIDS patients are carriers of the virus. S. People who are infected develop AIDS within five to ten years. 6) And they are infected for years without knowing it and transmit the disease to others.
Option 1: QPSR
Option 2: PSQR
Option 3: RSQP
Option 4: SRPQ
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