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Read the given passage carefully. The world dismisses curiosity by calling it idle or mere idle curiosity even though curious persons are not at all idle. Parents do their best to extinguish curiosity in their children because it makes life difficult to be faced everyday with a string of unanswerable questions about what makes fire hot or why grass grows. Children whose curiosity survives parental discipline are invited to join our university. With the university they go on asking their questions trying to find the answers. In the eyes of a scholar, that is what a university is for. Some of the questions which the scholars ask seem to the world to be scarcely worth asking, let alone answering. They ask questions too minute and specialised for me and you to understand without years of explanation. If the world inquires of one of them why he wants to know the answer to a particular question he may say, especially if he is a scientist, that the answer will in some obscure way make possible a new machine, weapon or gadget. Similarly a historian asked by an outsider why he studies history may come out with the argument that he has learnt to repeat on such occasions, something about knowledge of the past making it possible to understand the present and mould the future. But if you want to know why a historian studies the past, the answer is much simpler, something happened and he would like to know that. Choose the most appropriate options from those given below. (a) According to the passage, children make life difficult for their parents ............... (i) by their carefree curiosity,                                     (ii) by continuous bombardment of questions. (iii) by asking irrelevant questions,                                           (iv) by posing profound questions.   (b) The common people consider some of the questions that the scholars ask unimportant because (i) they are too lazy and idle.                                       (ii) they are too modest. (iii) it is beyond their comprehension,                    (iv) it is considered a waste of time.   (c) A historian really studies the past............... (i) to understand the present and to think about the future. (ii) to explain the present and plan the future. (iii) to understand the present and make the future. (iv) to understand the present and mould the future.   (d) The word in the passage which means to put out/finish is ............... (i) extinguish,                                                                    (ii) curious. (iii) answer,                                                                        (iv) mould.   (e) Parents do their best to discourage curiosity in their children because ............... (i) they have no time. (ii) they have no patience to answer them. (iii) they feel that their children ask stupid questions. (iv) they are unable to answer all their questions.  

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(a) (ii) by continuous bombardment of questions. (b) (iii) it is beyond their comprehension. (c) (iv) to understand the present and mould the future. (d) (i) extinguish. (e) (iv) they are unable to answer all their questions.