Reading Comprehension

The identity crisis of being a girl or a boy generally seen in adolescence is because of

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Our society (rather world) stereotypes man as strong, aggressive, logical, insensitive, unemotional, impatient, non-nurturing and mechanically talented while a woman is stereotyped as illogical, emotional, sensitive, patient and naturally nurturing. We can see that stereotypes for both man and woman have some positive and some negative characteristics.
Early psychological research suggested that females score high on verbal skills while males score higher on mathematical and spatial skills. Studies also found that men listen with their left hemisphere while women with both hemispheres, which suggests that, in addition to content of the statement, women also pay attention to the tone and emotion. However, later researches have found that these differences in cognitive abilities of the two sexes have become less and less obvious as the society has begun to treat the two genders as equal.
It has been found that male and female identity begins to develop as early as one year of age, owing to the way our society socialises our children. As a child grows, he/she is told to behave according to what is considered appropriate for his/her sex. The influence that culture can have on our personality was revealed in a landmark study by Margaret Mead in which it was found that there is no identity crisis during adolescence in Samoa tribe due to their liberal gender attitude.

As the society began to treat both the genders equally, the difference in cognitive abilities of both the sexes has become less evident. This shows that

Directions: Read the following passage and answer the question that follows:

Our society (rather world) stereotypes man as strong, aggressive, logical, insensitive, unemotional, impatient, non-nurturing and mechanically talented while a woman is stereotyped as illogical, emotional, sensitive, patient and naturally nurturing. We can see that stereotypes for both man and woman have some positive and some negative characteristics.
Early psychological research suggested that females score high on verbal skills while males score higher on mathematical and spatial skills. Studies also found that men listen with their left hemisphere while women with both hemispheres, which suggests that, in addition to content of the statement, women also pay attention to the tone and emotion. However, later researches have found that these differences in cognitive abilities of the two sexes have become less and less obvious as the society has begun to treat the two genders as equal.
It has been found that male and female identity begins to develop as early as one year of age, owing to the way our society socialises our children. As a child grows, he/she is told to behave according to what is considered appropriate for his/her sex. The influence that culture can have on our personality was revealed in a landmark study by Margaret Mead in which it was found that there is no identity crisis during adolescence in Samoa tribe due to their liberal gender attitude.

Men scoring high in mathematical and spatial skills shows that they are expected to

Directions: Read the following passage and answer the question that follows:

Our society (rather world) stereotypes man as strong, aggressive, logical, insensitive, unemotional, impatient, non-nurturing and mechanically talented while a woman is stereotyped as illogical, emotional, sensitive, patient and naturally nurturing. We can see that stereotypes for both man and woman have some positive and some negative characteristics.
Early psychological research suggested that females score high on verbal skills while males score higher on mathematical and spatial skills. Studies also found that men listen with their left hemisphere while women with both hemispheres, which suggests that, in addition to content of the statement, women also pay attention to the tone and emotion. However, later researches have found that these differences in cognitive abilities of the two sexes have become less and less obvious as the society has begun to treat the two genders as equal.
It has been found that male and female identity begins to develop as early as one year of age, owing to the way our society socialises our children. As a child grows, he/she is told to behave according to what is considered appropriate for his/her sex. The influence that culture can have on our personality was revealed in a landmark study by Margaret Mead in which it was found that there is no identity crisis during adolescence in Samoa tribe due to their liberal gender attitude.

The passage gives various ideas in support of music that mainly aim to

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Music
Music is a wonderful art indeed. It gets us out of the individual self into the social self without any effort on our part. It is a bond of social unity.
Moliere even expected it would unite the whole human race in love and peace. He said: “If all men learn music, would it not be a means of agreeing together in unity and establishing universal peace in the world?”
All men love music. Even some animals respond to it. It is nature’s direct wireless message.
Music lightens labour and promotes harmony and unity among men. It enlivens our leisure moments, and adds a touch of refinement to all our pleasures. It rescues us from coarseness and rudeness, and lifts us to a higher mental and ethical plane. It awakens in us that inner rhythm which adds to the passion of life and increases our energy and vitality. It takes us away from the insignificant material pleasures that are so false and misleading.
Whoever got tired of good music, even after the millionth repetition? Music expresses for us what speech cannot convey.

The views of Moliere as given in the passage indicate that he

Directions: Read the following passage and answer the question that follows:
Music
Music is a wonderful art indeed. It gets us out of the individual self into the social self without any effort on our part. It is a bond of social unity.
Moliere even expected it would unite the whole human race in love and peace. He said: “If all men learn music, would it not be a means of agreeing together in unity and establishing universal peace in the world?”
All men love music. Even some animals respond to it. It is nature’s direct wireless message.
Music lightens labour and promotes harmony and unity among men. It enlivens our leisure moments, and adds a touch of refinement to all our pleasures. It rescues us from coarseness and rudeness, and lifts us to a higher mental and ethical plane. It awakens in us that inner rhythm which adds to the passion of life and increases our energy and vitality. It takes us away from the insignificant material pleasures that are so false and misleading.
Whoever got tired of good music, even after the millionth repetition? Music expresses for us what speech cannot convey.

Nobody can get tired of good music even after millionth repetition because

Directions: Read the following passage and answer the question that follows:
Music
Music is a wonderful art indeed. It gets us out of the individual self into the social self without any effort on our part. It is a bond of social unity.
Moliere even expected it would unite the whole human race in love and peace. He said: “If all men learn music, would it not be a means of agreeing together in unity and establishing universal peace in the world?”
All men love music. Even some animals respond to it. It is nature’s direct wireless message.
Music lightens labour and promotes harmony and unity among men. It enlivens our leisure moments, and adds a touch of refinement to all our pleasures. It rescues us from coarseness and rudeness, and lifts us to a higher mental and ethical plane. It awakens in us that inner rhythm which adds to the passion of life and increases our energy and vitality. It takes us away from the insignificant material pleasures that are so false and misleading.
Whoever got tired of good music, even after the millionth repetition? Music expresses for us what speech cannot convey.

The fact that even animals respond to music shows that

Directions: Read the following passage and answer the question that follows:
Music
Music is a wonderful art indeed. It gets us out of the individual self into the social self without any effort on our part. It is a bond of social unity.
Moliere even expected it would unite the whole human race in love and peace. He said: “If all men learn music, would it not be a means of agreeing together in unity and establishing universal peace in the world?”
All men love music. Even some animals respond to it. It is nature’s direct wireless message.
Music lightens labour and promotes harmony and unity among men. It enlivens our leisure moments, and adds a touch of refinement to all our pleasures. It rescues us from coarseness and rudeness, and lifts us to a higher mental and ethical plane. It awakens in us that inner rhythm which adds to the passion of life and increases our energy and vitality. It takes us away from the insignificant material pleasures that are so false and misleading.
Whoever got tired of good music, even after the millionth repetition? Music expresses for us what speech cannot convey.

The most likely reason for a child to get thrashed by his parents as per the passage could be that the parents

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It is obvious that, in recent years, there has been a vast change in the attitude of parents towards children and perhaps an even greater change in the attitude of children towards parents.
Nowadays the rod is used very sparingly. Among families of education and refinement, a child may still be thrashed by the mother or the father, but not very often. The significance of the happening is not very great, and half of the time the spanking is marked by the irritable nervous condition of the parent rather than the act of the child.
A child may sometimes be mildly slapped by a teacher, usually when the teacher is irritated and short-tempered. But in nearly all cases, if a teacher dared to beat a child, or cause it real pain, the child would only have to tell its parents and the teacher would be discharged.

Today teenagers are not likely to be spanked because

Directions: Read the following passage and answer the question that follows:

It is obvious that, in recent years, there has been a vast change in the attitude of parents towards children and perhaps an even greater change in the attitude of children towards parents.
Nowadays the rod is used very sparingly. Among families of education and refinement, a child may still be thrashed by the mother or the father, but not very often. The significance of the happening is not very great, and half of the time the spanking is marked by the irritable nervous condition of the parent rather than the act of the child.
A child may sometimes be mildly slapped by a teacher, usually when the teacher is irritated and short-tempered. But in nearly all cases, if a teacher dared to beat a child, or cause it real pain, the child would only have to tell its parents and the teacher would be discharged.

The rod being used sparingly nowadays shows that the parents

Directions: Read the following passage and answer the question that follows:

It is obvious that, in recent years, there has been a vast change in the attitude of parents towards children and perhaps an even greater change in the attitude of children towards parents.
Nowadays the rod is used very sparingly. Among families of education and refinement, a child may still be thrashed by the mother or the father, but not very often. The significance of the happening is not very great, and half of the time the spanking is marked by the irritable nervous condition of the parent rather than the act of the child.
A child may sometimes be mildly slapped by a teacher, usually when the teacher is irritated and short-tempered. But in nearly all cases, if a teacher dared to beat a child, or cause it real pain, the child would only have to tell its parents and the teacher would be discharged.

School teachers are no longer allowed to beat their pupils because

Directions: Read the following passage and answer the question that follows:

It is obvious that, in recent years, there has been a vast change in the attitude of parents towards children and perhaps an even greater change in the attitude of children towards parents.
Nowadays the rod is used very sparingly. Among families of education and refinement, a child may still be thrashed by the mother or the father, but not very often. The significance of the happening is not very great, and half of the time the spanking is marked by the irritable nervous condition of the parent rather than the act of the child.
A child may sometimes be mildly slapped by a teacher, usually when the teacher is irritated and short-tempered. But in nearly all cases, if a teacher dared to beat a child, or cause it real pain, the child would only have to tell its parents and the teacher would be discharged.

The “change in attitude” being discussed in the passage is in relation to imparting

Directions: Read the following passage and answer the question that follows:

It is obvious that, in recent years, there has been a vast change in the attitude of parents towards children and perhaps an even greater change in the attitude of children towards parents.
Nowadays the rod is used very sparingly. Among families of education and refinement, a child may still be thrashed by the mother or the father, but not very often. The significance of the happening is not very great, and half of the time the spanking is marked by the irritable nervous condition of the parent rather than the act of the child.
A child may sometimes be mildly slapped by a teacher, usually when the teacher is irritated and short-tempered. But in nearly all cases, if a teacher dared to beat a child, or cause it real pain, the child would only have to tell its parents and the teacher would be discharged.

The text highlights the importance of

Directions: Read the following passage and answer the question that follows:

It is obvious that, in recent years, there has been a vast change in the attitude of parents towards children and perhaps an even greater change in the attitude of children towards parents.
Nowadays the rod is used very sparingly. Among families of education and refinement, a child may still be thrashed by the mother or the father, but not very often. The significance of the happening is not very great, and half of the time the spanking is marked by the irritable nervous condition of the parent rather than the act of the child.
A child may sometimes be mildly slapped by a teacher, usually when the teacher is irritated and short-tempered. But in nearly all cases, if a teacher dared to beat a child, or cause it real pain, the child would only have to tell its parents and the teacher would be discharged.

More and more people are now sending their daughters to schools. This shows that

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Men and women are the two wheels of society. If one of the two falls defective, the society cannot make progress. Hence, we need education for the females same as we need it for the males. Female education is highly necessary for the society. Females are the first teachers of the future citizens of the country. If the mothers be ignorant, they cannot take proper care of the children. They cannot infuse good qualities in them. Hence, the very foundation of our people will remain weak. If the females are ignorant, we will lose the services of a powerful part of our society.

This text helps us to learn that

Directions: Read the following passage and answer the question that follows:
Men and women are the two wheels of society. If one of the two falls defective, the society cannot make progress. Hence, we need education for the females same as we need it for the males. Female education is highly necessary for the society. Females are the first teachers of the future citizens of the country. If the mothers be ignorant, they cannot take proper care of the children. They cannot infuse good qualities in them. Hence, the very foundation of our people will remain weak. If the females are ignorant, we will lose the services of a powerful part of our society.