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CONSERVATION
There are certain people, however, with whom one has a right to be bored-people who are so self-centred that they cannot listen to anyone else talking, people who engage in long conversations with their cats when visitors are present, people who engage endless reminiscences of their old school when in the company of a man who was at a different school. Such people are boring because they make one feel for the time being an outsider.
1. Boring persons are generally
(a) talkative (b) quiet
(c) indifferent (d) tedious
2. The most pleasing type of company is where people
(a) chit-chat with you in a patronizing mood
(b) listen to you with awe and respect
(c) make you feel that they appreciate your conversation
(d) shower on you a lot of flattering remarks
3. The expression ‘endless reminiscences’ stands for
(a) a boring and lengthy talk
(b) a very long conversation
(c) a long chain of events
(d) an unending recollection of past experiences
4. A person feels an outsider in a company when
(a) everybody wants to know the details about him.
(b) he finds that people are talking about things which do not concern him.
(c) he does not know anybody.
(d) he finds that everyone present there is more intelligent than he is.
ANSWERS:-
1. (a)
2. (c)
3. (d)
4. (b)
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