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Cricket has its own peculiar merits as a training school for manhood. It is the very cumulative strain of boredom which this game imposes that constitutes its superiority. Any game, too, which by laying down fixed rules, teaches boys not to think for themselves, will be of help to them in their mature years; while should these years coincide with a period of war, the lesson will be of inestimable value. Curiously enough, though schoolmasters inculcate the doctrine that an inter-school match is a thing of vital importance to the schools taking part in it that defeat to a team is equivalent to a loss of battle by an army, yet certain rules are laid down; and the boy, who believing these protestations of his teachers, sought genuinely to help his side by the invention and use of some ingenious mechanism, by the breaking of some old rule, or establishment of some new one, would quickly be disillusioned, called to order by the umpire, lowered in the esteem of his comrades, and perhaps afterwards disgraced publicly.

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Read the following passages and choose the correct answers for the questions given below:

Cricket has its own peculiar merits as a training school for manhood. It is the very cumulative strain of boredom which this game imposes that constitutes its superiority. Any game, too, which by laying down fixed rules, teaches boys not to think for themselves, will be of help to them in their mature years; while should these years coincide with a period of war, the lesson will be of inestimable value. Curiously enough, though schoolmasters inculcate the doctrine that an inter-school match is a thing of vital importance to the schools taking part in it that defeat to a team is equivalent to a loss of battle by an army, yet certain rules are laid down; and the boy, who believing these protestations of his teachers, sought genuinely to help his side by the invention and use of some ingenious mechanism, by the breaking of some old rule, or establishment of some new one, would quickly be disillusioned, called to order by the umpire, lowered in the esteem of his comrades, and perhaps afterwards disgraced publicly.

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The superiority of cricket has its basis in the .................... it generates.

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The Correct Option is D

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A game with rules will help boys in their .............. years.

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The Correct Option is B

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School teachers compare a team’s defeat in sports to a defeat in ...........

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The Correct Option is A

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New inventions in sports are often ................

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The Correct Option is C

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The author of the passage opposes

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The Correct Option is C

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