Practicing Success

Target Exam

CUET

Subject

English

Chapter

Comprehension - (Poetry / Literary)

Question:

Read the passage and answer the question.

"When Farmer Oak smiled, the corners of his mouth spread till they were within an unimportant distance of his ears, his eyes were reduced to mere chinks, and diverging wrinkles appeared round them, extending upon his countenance like the rays in a rudimentary sketch of the rising sun.

"His name was Gabriel, and on working days he was a young man of sound judgement, easy motions, proper dress, and general good character. On Sundays he was a man of misty views, rather given to postponing, and hampered by his best clothes and umbrella; upon the whole, one who felt himself to occupy morally that vast middle space of Laodicean neutrality which lay between the Communion people of the parish and the drunken section....

"Since he lived six times as many working days as Sundays, Oak's appearance in his old clothes was most peculiarly his own-the mental picture formed by his neighbours in imagining him being always dressed that way. He wore a low-crowned felt hat, spread out at the base by tight jamming upon the head for security in high winds, and a coat like Dr. Johnson's; his lower extremities being encased in ordinary leather leggings and boots emphatically large, affording to each foot a roomy apartment so constructed that any wearer might stand in a river all day long and know nothing about it-their maker being a conscientious man who always endeavoured to compensate for any weakness in his cut by unstinted dimension and solidity....

On working days, Gabriel was a man of ______.

Options:

Pride

Sound judgment

Weak judgement

No judgement

Correct Answer:

Sound judgment

Explanation:

The correct answer is Option (2) → Sound judgment