Read the following passage and answer the question that follows:
I know I'm not an ordinary ten-year-old kid. I mean sure, I do ordinary things. I eat ice cream. I ride my bike. I play ball. I have an Xbox. Stuff like that makes me ordinary. I guess. And I feel ordinary. Inside But I know ordinary kids don't make other ordinary kids run away screaming in playgrounds. I know ordinary kids don't get stared at wherever they go.
If I found a magic lamp and I could have one wish, I would wish that I had a normal face that no one ever noticed at all. I would wish that I could walk down the street without people seeing me and then doing that look-away thing. Here's what I think: the only reason I'm not ordinary is that no one else sees me that way. But I'm kind of used to how I look by now. I know how to pretend.
I don't see the faces people make. We've all gotten pretty good at that sort of thing: me, Mom, Dad Via. Actually, I take that back: Via's not so good at it. She can get really annoyed when people do something rude. Like, for instance, one time in the playground some older kids made some noises. I don't even know what the noises were exactly because I didn't hear them myself, but Via heard and she just started yelling at the kids. That's the way she is. I'm not that way.
What makes the 10-year-old narrator ordinary?
(A) He rides his bike
(B) He plays ball
(C) He makes children run away
(D) He gets stared at
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 3
The correct answer is Option (3) → (A) and (B)
(A) He rides his bike — Correct.
- The narrator lists the ordinary things he does: "I ride my bike".
(B) He plays ball — Correct.
- "I play ball" is in the same list, and he adds that such things make him ordinary.
(C) He makes children run away — Incorrect.
- Contradicted: this is what makes him not ordinary: "ordinary kids don't make other ordinary kids run away screaming".
(D) He gets stared at — Incorrect.
- Contradicted: being stared at is also a sign that he is different: "ordinary kids don't get stared at wherever they go".