Question

Children whose curiosity survives parental discipline means

• A. Children retaining their curiosity in spite of being discouraged by their parents
• B. Children pursuing their mental curiosity
• C. Children's curiosity subdued due to parents intervention
• D. Children being disciplined by their parents
• A. Embrace
• B. Nurture
• C. Remove
• D. Sow
• A. Their ceaseless curiosity
• B. Unceasing bombardment of questions
• C. Asking irrelevant questions
• D. Raising doubts
• A. They are too lazy and idle
• B. They are too modest
• C. It's beyond their comprehension
• D. It is considered a waste of time
• A. To comprehend the present and to reconstruct the future
• B. To explain the present and plan the future
• C. To understand the present and make fortune
• D. To understand the present and mould the future
• A. Scientists know that the world understands and respects utility
• B. The world encourages curiosity
• C. Parents always encourage curiosity of their children
• D. In the university questions are rarely asked to find out answers
• A. Results in Boredom
• B. Breeds inefficiency
• C. Results in action
• D. Is liked by the society
• A. have no time
• B. are unable to answer all the questions
• C. feel that their children ask stupid questions continuously
• D. have no patience to answer them

Answer 1

The Correct Option is A

The passage says parents try to extinguish curiosity in their children, but some children keep asking questions anyway. The phrase "curiosity survives parental discipline" is about those children whose curiosity does not die out even after the parents try to stop it.

1. Children retaining their curiosity in spite of being discouraged by their parents: This matches the passage directly. Parents try to extinguish curiosity, and some children still hold on to it. That is exactly what "survives parental discipline" means.
2. Children pursuing their mental curiosity: This just repeats the idea of curiosity without mentioning that it survived any discouragement, so it misses the point of "parental discipline" in the phrase.
3. Children's curiosity subdued due to parents intervention: This is the opposite of what the phrase means. "Survives" means the curiosity continues, it does not get subdued.
4. Children being disciplined by their parents: This talks about the discipline itself, not about the curiosity surviving it, so it does not answer the question.

The correct option is A, since it is the only one that captures both parts of the phrase: the curiosity stays alive, and it stays alive despite the parents trying to stop it.

Let's summarize:

• The passage states that parents try hard to kill curiosity in children.
• Children whose curiosity is strong enough to survive that effort are the ones who go on to university and keep questioning things.

So the answer is option A.

Answer 2

In the passage, "extinguish" is used in the line "Parents do their best to extinguish curiosity in their children." Here it means to put an end to curiosity, to wipe it out completely, not to literally put out a fire.

1. Embrace: This means to accept or welcome something warmly, which is the opposite of what parents are doing to curiosity in the passage.
2. Nurture: This means to encourage growth and development, again the opposite of extinguishing something.
3. Remove: This means to take away or eliminate something completely, which is close to the sense of "extinguish" in the passage, ending curiosity so it no longer exists.
4. Sow: This means to plant a seed or start something, which has nothing to do with putting an end to curiosity.

The correct option is C, "Remove," since parents are trying to eliminate curiosity altogether, and that is the same sense the passage gives to "extinguish."

Let's summarize:

• "Extinguish" in this context means to end or eliminate something completely.
• Among the choices, only "Remove" carries that same sense of getting rid of something.

So the answer is option C.

Answer 3

The passage says: "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." Here "it" refers back to curiosity, so the passage names curiosity itself as the thing that makes life difficult for parents.

1. Their ceaseless curiosity: This matches the passage word for word. Curiosity, described as constant and unending, is stated as the cause of the difficulty parents face.
2. Unceasing bombardment of questions: This describes one visible effect of curiosity, the string of questions, but the passage names curiosity itself, not the questions, as the actual cause.
3. Asking irrelevant questions: The passage never calls the children's questions irrelevant, it calls them unanswerable, so this changes the meaning.
4. Raising doubts: The passage does not mention children raising doubts anywhere, this option is simply not supported by the text.

The correct option is A, since the passage directly credits the children's ceaseless curiosity, not any single behaviour, as the source of the difficulty.

Let's summarize:

• The passage's own sentence structure makes curiosity, not questions, the grammatical cause of the difficulty.
• The string of questions is just how that curiosity shows up in daily life.

So the answer is option A.

Answer 4

The passage explains why some of the scholars' questions look unimportant to ordinary people: "They ask questions too minute and specialized for you and me to understand without years of explanation." The reason given is that these questions are too specialized to be understood easily, not that people are lazy or that the questions are pointless.

1. They are too lazy and idle: The passage never calls common people lazy, it actually says curious people are seldom idle, so this option contradicts the text.
2. They are too modest: Modesty is never mentioned in the passage in connection with why questions seem unimportant.
3. It's beyond their comprehension: This matches the passage closely, since the questions are described as too specialized to understand without years of explanation.
4. It is considered a waste of time: The passage does not say the questions are seen as a waste of time, only that they are hard to grasp without deep background knowledge.

The correct option is C, since the passage's own reasoning is that these questions require years of specialized understanding, which ordinary people simply do not have.

Let's summarize:

• The passage links the questions being dismissed to their complexity, not to laziness or modesty.
• "Too minute and specialized to understand" is essentially the same as "beyond their comprehension."

So the answer is option C.

Answer 5

The passage gives the answer a historian offers to an outsider who asks why he studies history: "knowledge of the past making it possible to understand the present and mould the future." The question is asking for this stated purpose, in the historian's own words as given in the passage.

1. To comprehend the present and to reconstruct the future: "Comprehend" is close to "understand," but the passage uses "mould," not "reconstruct," for what happens to the future, so this option changes the meaning slightly.
2. To explain the present and plan the future: The passage says "understand," not "explain," and "mould," not "plan," so this does not match the exact wording or sense.
3. To understand the present and make fortune: Making a fortune is never mentioned anywhere in the passage, this is unrelated.
4. To understand the present and mould the future: This matches the passage word for word, "understand the present and mould the future."

The correct option is D, since it repeats the passage's own phrase exactly, without swapping in a different verb that changes the sense.

Let's summarize:

• The passage gives a specific two-part answer: understanding the present, moulding the future.
• Only option D keeps both verbs exactly as the passage states them.

So the answer is option D.

Answer 6

This is a true or false type question, so each option needs to be checked against what the passage actually says, not what sounds reasonable.

1. Scientists know that the world understands and respects utility: The passage states, "He talks that way because he knows that the world understands and respects utility," speaking of the scientist. This is stated directly in the passage, so it is true.
2. The world encourages curiosity: The passage opens by saying the world dismisses curiosity as idle, which is the opposite of encouraging it, so this is false.
3. Parents always encourage curiosity of their children: The passage says parents do their best to extinguish curiosity, which is the opposite of encouraging it, so this is false.
4. In the university questions are rarely asked to find out answers: The passage says that within the university, students go on asking their questions and trying to find the answers, so questions are asked often, not rarely, making this false.

The correct option is A, since it is the only statement that is directly backed by the passage's own words.

Let's summarize:

• Options B, C, and D each state the reverse of what the passage says.
• Only option A restates a line taken straight from the passage.

So the answer is option A.

Answer 7

This is an inference question, so the answer must be something the passage supports even if it is not stated in so many words. The clearest clue is the opening line: "curious persons are seldom idle." If curious people are seldom idle, curiosity must be pushing them towards activity.

1. Results in Boredom: This is the opposite of what the passage implies, since curious people are described as seldom idle, not bored.
2. Breeds inefficiency: The passage describes scholars working hard on specialized questions and even finding cures for diseases, which shows effort and productivity, not inefficiency.
3. Results in action: This fits the passage well. Curious people keep asking questions and trying to find answers, climb mountains simply because they are there, and work on real problems, all of which are forms of action.
4. Is liked by the society: The passage actually says the world dismisses curiosity as idle, so society does not come across as liking it.

The correct option is C, since every example the passage gives of curious behaviour, asking questions, climbing mountains, studying history, researching cures, is an example of people taking action.

Let's summarize:

• "Seldom idle" is the strongest clue linking curiosity to activity rather than passivity.
• All the examples in the passage show curiosity driving people to do something.

So the answer is option C.

Answer 8

The passage gives a direct reason for why parents try to discourage curiosity: "it makes life difficult to be faced everyday with a string of unanswerable questions about what makes fire hot or why grass grows." The key word here is "unanswerable," which points to the parents simply not having answers.

1. have no time: The passage never mentions time as an issue for the parents, this is not supported by the text.
2. are unable to answer all the questions: This matches the passage directly, since the questions are called "unanswerable," meaning the parents cannot answer them.
3. feel that their children ask stupid questions continuously: The passage never calls the questions stupid, it calls them unanswerable, which is a different idea altogether.
4. have no patience to answer them: Patience is not mentioned in the passage as the reason, the actual issue raised is not knowing the answers.

The correct option is B, since the passage's own word "unanswerable" points straight to the parents being unable to answer the children's questions.

Let's summarize:

• The passage explains the difficulty using the word "unanswerable," not "no time" or "no patience."
• Being unable to answer the questions is the stated cause of parents wanting to extinguish curiosity.

So the answer is option B.