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Hey plz answer.. Reading comprehension unseen passage — g.•ade g Read the 'onowing passage carefully and answer the questions that follow: 2. 3. The habit of reading The habt of reading s one of the greatest resources of mank.nd. and we enjoy reading books thal Oeiong to us much more than they ate borrowed A borrowec book s like a guest the 'house: t must be treated wth punctiliousness. with a certain considerate formality You must see that 't Sustains no suffer while Vou cannot leave It carelessly. you cannot mark it, you cannot turn down the pages, you cannot use it famiiarty. And then. someday. although this is seldom done, you really ought to return it But your own books belong to you; you treat them with that affectionate Intimacy that annihilates formality, Books are for use, not for show. you should own no book that you are afiÅid'6 inark up, or afraid to place on the table, wide open and face down A good reason for marking favourite passages In books is that this practice enables you to remember more easily the significant sayngs. to refer to them quickly, and then in later years. it is visiting a forest where '60 once blazed a trail. You have the pleasure of gong over the ground, and both the mteÄiectåal sænery and your own earlier self. Everyone shouki colkwthg a private library in youth. the instinct of private which is fundamental in human beings, can here cultivated With every advantage. One should have one's own bookstelves. which should not have doors. glass windows. or keys they shouki be free and accessible to the hand as væll as to the eye Ttw t:RSt of mural decorations are books: they are more varied in •colour and appearance' than any wallpaper, they are rnore attractive in design. and they have the prune advantage of being separate personalius so that if you sit alone in the room in the firelight, you are surrour&d with intinate triends, The that they are there in plain view is both stimulating and refreshing. You do not have to read them all Most of my indoor life is scwnt in a room containing six thousand books. and I have a stock answer to the invariable question that cornes from strangers. •Have you read all Of these Of than twice-. This reply is tx)th true aru:i unexcxx:ted 4. My devotion to reading has never made rne a recluse. How could it Books are of the people. by the people. for the people. Literature is the Immortal part of history. it is the best and most enduring part of personality. But book-friends have this advantage over living friends: you can enjoy the most truly aristocratic society in the world whenever you want it. The great dead are our reach. and the great living is usually almost the inaccessible; as for Our personal friends and acquaintances. we cannot always see them. Perchance they are asleep. or away on a journey. But in a pnvate Library, you can at any moment converse with Socrates or Shakespeare or Carlyle or Dumas or Dickens or Shaw or Barrie or Galsworthy CINTWete the folbwing table by filing in the blanks with appropriate answers. Write the correct your answer sheet against the correct blank numbers (4 marks) Add two more advantages of our own Books as one is given 1 _ We treat them with intimacy. Add two more disadvantages of borrowed books as one is given 2.They are mere guests in our house. b. 3.CompleteJAnswer the following statements/questions: (a) Borrowed books. like guests, (b) Marking favourite passages enables us to and (ii) (c) When should we have our own Ibrary? and (ii) (d) The author calls books (1) 3. Find words from the passage which mean the same as the following from the paragraphs indicated Write the answers in your answer sheet against the correct blank number: (2 marks) (a) extreme carefulness to behave correctly (Para 1 ) (b) destroys completely (Para 2)

Dear Student,
Please post your question in separate threads to get multiple answers. Answers of the first two questions are:

1. a. Our own books belong to us.
    b. We can freely mark up in the book, wide open and face them down.  

2. a. Borrowed books are treated with formalities.
    b. We can not mark up in the book or turn down the pages.


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