Question ID - 84152 | SaraNextGen Top Answer

Read the passages carefully and choose the best answer to each question out of the four alternatives.                                                                        PASSAGE      Speech is a great blessing but it can also be a great curse for while it helps us to make our intentions and desires known to our follows, it can also, if we use it carelessly make our attitudes completely misunderstood. A slip of the tongue, the use of an unusual word or of an ambiguous word may create an enemy where we have hoped to win a friend. Again, different classes of people use different vocabularies and the ordinary speech of an educated man may strike an uneducated listener as showing pride; unwillingly we may use a word which bears a different meaning to our listeners from what it does to men of our own class. Thus, speech is not a gift to use lightly without thought but one which demands careful handling. Only a fool will express himself alike to all.
Speech is a great blessing.
(a)	if we use it indiscriminately.	(b)	if we use it carefully.
(c)	if we use it to please other.	(d)	if we use it to play one against the other.
Speech can also be a great curse
(a)	if we express ourselves alike to all.	(b)	if we adopt different vocabularies to different classes of people.
(c)	if we always try to please everyone with it.	(d)	if we always try to win friends with it.
A slip of the tongue means
(a)	biting the tongue while speaking.	(b)	telling lies to defend oneself.
(c)	using words carelessly.	(d)	incurring loss of profit in hasty bargain.
The passage reveals that
(a)	the use of ambiguous and unusual words brings us friends.	(b)	careless use of words creates enemies.
(c)	careful use of words may bring us profit but not friends.	(d)	speech always reflects one’s attitudes.
A fool will express himself alike to all kinds and conditions of the men because
(a)	he wants to play with people	(b)	he wants to deceive everyone.
(c)	he wants to amuse every one	(d)	he lacks the power of discrimination in the use of words.