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Directions: The passage given below is followed by four alternative summaries. Choose the option that best captures the essence of the passage. Key in the number of the option you choose as your answer.

Celebrated novelists’ greatness can be ascribed to partly their skill at binding the reader to a compelling narrative and partly due to the quality of the narrative itself. Every man who has lived his own life has many new and strange things to tell – his experiences, his secrets, happenings that befell him, men and women he encountered in his journey, friends and relatives etc. The stories of his life may never be less than the substance of an enchanting novel. However, neither are all men endowed with the extraordinary ability to chronicle their life nor may they have the choice to devote time to penning down their life stories when so much more is happening in their life while they remain ever more active and responsive to the tumult in life.

  1. Novelists win fame even when their narrative may be less enchanting than the one of a common man’s life.

  2. A novelist is distinct from a common man as the former is advantaged with an interesting narrative.

  3. What differentiates a layman from a famous novelist is probably the latter finding time to put his skill to work.

  4. Man’s life is a narrative of enchanting events, however, he has little time to pen it down.
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Explanation
  1. Not necessarily, as they need to bind the reader as well with their narrative.
    1. Not necessarily, the novelist may not have an interesting narrative to tell.
    2. True, the novelist does devote time to put his skill to work, which a layman cannot do.
    3. True, however, comparison with a novelist is not given.

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