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d) a special problem in teaching handwriting
23. The author points out that............. .
a) parents should break children of left-handedness
b) left-handed children need special consideration
c) left-handed persons are inclined to stutter
d) left-handed people are less skilful than right-handed ones
24. The common policy in teaching handwriting has .............
a) led to failure in learning to write
b) dismayed the experts
c) goaled at mirror writing
d) resulted in unsolved problems
Many researchers have commented on what seems to be the fact that fear plays a much smaller part than we should think it must in the life of an animal which lives dangerously. Terror he can 60

know, and perhaps he knows it frequently. But it seems to last only a little longer than the immediate danger it helps him to avoid, instead of lingering, as in the human being it does, until it becomes a burden and a threat. The frightened bird resumes his song as soon as danger has passed and so does the frightened rabbit his games. It is almost as if they knew that "cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.

1. The passage is concerned with ............. .
a) a comparison of animals and men
b) a comparison of fear and terror
c) animal traits
d) fear in animals
2. The writer thinks that............. .
a) fear is a permanent form of terror
b) fear has a permanent effect on animals
c) fear is almost unknown by animals
d) animals remember fear only a short time
3. Cowards die many times before their deaths" implies ............. .
a) the coward is always seriously ill
b) many times the coward is almost caught is his misdeeds
c) the coward's frequent fears are often as bad as death
d) cowards many times wish they were dead
Solitude is a great chastener after you accept it. It quietly eliminates all kinds of traits that were a part of you - among others the desire to pos., to keep your best food forever in evidence, to impress people as being something you would like to have them think you are even when you aren't. Some men I know are able to pose even in solitude; had they male servants they no doubt would be heroes to them. However, I find it the hardest sort of work myself, and as I am lazy I have stopped trying. To act without an audience is so tiresome and profitless that you gradually give it up and at last forget how to act at all. For you become more interested in making the acquaintance of yourself as you really are, which is a meeting that, in the haunts of men, rarely takes place. It is gratifying, for instance, to discover that you prefer to be clean rather than dirty even when there is no one but God to care; it is just as amusing to note, however, that for scrupulous cleanliness you are not inclined to make superhuman sacrifices, even though you used to believe you were. Clothes, you learn, with something of a shock, have for you no interest whatsoever.... You learn to regard a dress merely as a covering a precaution. For its colour and its cut you care nothing.
4. The passage is concerned with ..............
a) acting without an audience
b) carelessness in clothes