Distractions
Read the following passages and answer the questions given at the end of each :
The great advantage of early rising is the good gait it gives us to our day’s work. The early riser has done a large amount of hard work before other men have got out of bed. In the early morning, the mind is fresh, and there are few sounds or other distractions, so the work done at that time is generally well done. In many cases, the early riser also finds time to take some exercise in the fresh morning air, and this exercise supplies him with a fund of energy that will last until the evening. By beginning so early, he knows that he has plenty of time to do thoroughly all the work he can be expected to do and is not tempted to hurry over any part of it. All his work is finished in good time, he has a long interval of rest in the evening before the timely hour when he goes to bed. He gets to sleep several hours before midnight, at the time when sleep is most refreshing, and after a sound night’s rest rises, early next morning in good health and spirits for the labours of a new day.
Questions :
(a) How is early morning different from other hours of the day?
(b) Why Is the early riser not tempted to hurry over his day’s work?
(c) What enables the early riser to go to bed at the proper time?
(d) What are the advantages of going to sleep well before midnight?
(e) Find words, from the passage having the same meaning as :
(i) utility or use (ii) something that disturbs.
Answers :
(a) In the early morning, the air is fresh and there is no disturbance.
(b) As he has plenty of time, he is not tempted to hurry over his day’s work.
(c) His day’s work is completed on time. This enables an early riser to go to bed at the proper time.
(d) At that time the sleep is most refreshing.
(e)(i) advantage (ii) distraction.
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