English Comprehension No.4
Culture is the cultivation of a plant or garden not the eradication of its roots, it is an understanding of the roots, it is an understanding of the roots and seeds, their patient care, and instructed nourishment. Culture is not knowledge, nor is it art still less is its acquaintance with literature and art. By culture, I mean first of all what the anthologists mean; the way of life of a particular people living together in one place. That culture is made visible in their arts, in their religion. It is an aggregate of customs, institutions, manners, standards, tastes morals, and beliefs. Now, these are transmitted rather by the family than by the school hence when the family life fails to play its parts, we must expect our culture to deteriorate. It is a delusion to think that the maladies of the modern world can be put right by a system of instruction. On the contrary, universal education, by lowering standards, morals, and tastes to a common denominator, and by sharpening the wits rather and discipline character, tends to break down existing checks and balances. Education should be the drawing forth of potential values, it should not be the destruction of the safeguards that tradition places around young egos naturally inclined to willful and precarious flight.
Question: The writer uses the terms ‘culture’ to refer to
Answer: The cultivation of plant or garden by a community
Answer: One’s acquaintance with literature and art
Answer: One’s acquisition of knowledge
Answer: The way of life of particular people living together in one place
Ans:D
Question: The passage suggests that universal education
Answer: Is, in fact, aggravating the existing problems of the modern world
Answer: Is the solution to the problem in the modern world
Answer: Would prevent us from transmitting culture to the future generation
Answer: Would help retain the cultural values
Ans:C
Question: The culture of a community is said to deteriorate when
Answer: There is a fall in its educational standards
Answer: The family life fails to play its part
Answer: There is the universal education
Answer: It adopts the modern system of instruction
Ans: B
Question: The culture of a community is transmitted
Answer: More by the school than the family
Answer: More by the family than a school
Answer: Equally by both
Answer: By the peer group
Ans: B
Question: According to the passage, education is
Answer: The sharpening of wits
Answer: Tapping and encouraging internet values in a man
Answer: The substitution of old traditions with new ones
Answer: The development of moral standards
Ans: A