Question ID - 83955 | SaraNextGen Top Answer

Read the passages carefully and choose the best answer to each question out of the four alternatives.                                                                                          PASSAGE      A reason why people at school read books is to please their teacher. The teacher has said that this, that, or the other is a good book, and that it is a sign of good taste to enjoy it. So a number of boys and girls, anxious to please their teacher, get the book and read it. Two or three of them may genuinely like it, for their own sake, and be grateful to the teacher for putting in their way. But many will not honestly like it, or will persuade themselves that they like it. And that does a great deal of harm. The people who cannot like the book run the risk of two things happening to them; either they are put off the idea of the book-let us suppose the book was David Copperfield-either they are put off the idea of classical novels, or they take a dislike to Dickens, and decide firmly never to waste their time on anything of the sort again or they get a guilty conscience about the whole thing, they feel that they do not like what they ought to like and that therefore there to something wrong with them.      They are quite mistaken, of course. There is nothing wrong with them. The mistake has all been on the teacher’s side. What has happened is that they have been shoved up against a book before they were ready for it. It is like giving a young child food only suitable for an adult. Result : indigestion, violent stomach-ache, and a rooted dislike of that article of food evermore.
The passage is about what
(a)	we should do to make children read.	(b)	we should not do when we ask children to read.
(c)	teachers should teach in the classroom.	(d)	treatment is to be given for indigestion.
The writer says that teachers should
(a)	prevent children from reading any book.	(b)	compel children to read moral stories.
(c)	stop compelling children to read books recommended by them.	(d)	carefully supervise what children read.
According to the author many boys and girls read books to
(a)	win the favour of their teachers.	(b)	spend money in a useful way.
(c)	express their gratitude to their teachers.	(d)	show others that they are lovers of books.
The mistake has been on the teacher’s side. Here the mistake refers to
(a)	making the children to please the teacher	(b)	asking the children to read books which teachers do not like.
(c)	discouraging children from reading more books.	(d)	recommending them the books intended for adults.
Indigestion and violent stomach-ache will be the result if the child
(a)	reads books not suitable for his age.	(b)	does not read any book.
(c)	is forced to eat food meant for adults.	(d)	is not taken to doctor regularly.