Read the passages given below and answer the questions that follow.
Just as you can ruin the stomach and impair the whole body by taking too much nourishment, so you can overfill and cook the mind by feeding it too much. The more you read, the fewer are the traces left by what you have read : the mind becomes like a tablet crossed over with writing. There is no time for ruminating, and no other way can you assimilate what you have read. If you read on and on without setting your own thoughts to work what you have read cannot strike root and is generally lost. It is, in fact, just the same with mental as with bodily food : hardly the fifth part of what one takes is assimilated. The rest passes out in evaporation, respiration and the like.
(1) Another word for ‘impair’ is
(A) obstruct
(B) strengthen
(C) fortify
(D) More than one of the above
(E) None of the above
(2) When you read too much the mind cannot
(A) ruminate
(B) absorb
(C) remember
(D) More than one of the above
(E) None of the above
(3) Three-fourth part of our input is
(A) absorbed
(B) understood
(C) excreted
(D) More than one of the above
(E) None of the above
(4) ‘Ruminate’ means the same as
(A) contemplate
(B) consider
(C) chew the cud
(D) More than one of the above
(E) None of the above
(5) Reading too much without setting one’s thoughts to work results in
(A) mental breakdown
(B) overfilling the mind
(C) incoherence
(D) More than one of the above
(E) None of the above
