Read the passage carefully and answer the following questions:
It is your duty to train and develop your mind and acquire knowledge, as much as you possibly can obtain. Knowledge is like a deep well, fed by perennial springs, and your mind is the little bucket that you drop into it: you will get as much as you can assimilate. The brain, which is the physical organ of the mind, is one of the two precious products of the aeons of evolution, the other is the imponderable 'Social Instinct'. This wonderful Brain, whose every convolution represents millions of years of Time, really distinguishes you from animals. Many animals have very powerful sense organs; the eagle, the ant and the dog have keener sense of sight than Man. But no animal has a more evolved Brain and Higher intelligence. If you do not develop and use this Brain to the utmost of your power, you are more akin to the beasts than to Homo sapiens.
Knowledge and mental self-culture confer untold blessings upon you. You will not be the victim of superstition and demagogy in religion and politics, not to be doped and duped by the priests and politicians of capitalism and so called Socialism: is this not a noble aim worth striving for? Most men and women today are not free and wise.
They are fleeced and fooled on account of their ignorance. Half the ills of man are due to ignorance.
According to the passage, it is our duty to:
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 1
The correct answer is Option (1) → train our mind and acquire as much knowledge as possible
The passage begins: "It is your duty to train and develop your mind and acquire knowledge, as much as you possibly can obtain." This option repeats that sentence almost word for word.
Why the Other Options are Incorrect?
Option 2: train our mind and travel in trains to see beautiful places and landscapes — Incorrect. Not mentioned: the passage mentions no travel; it plays on the word "train".
Option 3: train our mind and wait for someone to tell us what to do next — Incorrect. Contradicted: the passage wants us to think for ourselves so that we are not fooled by others; waiting for orders goes against this.
Option 4: never train our mind as we are born with a lot of artificial intelligence — Incorrect. Contradicted: the passage calls training the mind our duty; artificial intelligence is not mentioned.