Read the following passages and choose the correct answers for the questions given below:
The morning, which is the most memorable season of the day, is the awareness hour. Then there is least somnolence in us; and for an hour, at least, some part of us awakes which slumbers all the rest of the day and night. Little is to be expected of that day, if it can be called a day, to which we are not awakened by our genius, but by the mechanical nudging of some servitor, or not awakened by our own newly acquired for and aspirations from within, accompanied by the undulations of celestial music, instead of factory bell and a fragrance filling the air–to a higher life than we fell asleep from; and let the darkness bear its fruit, and prove itself to be good, no less than the light. But man who does not believe that each day contains an earlier, more sacred, auroral hour than he has yet profaned, has despaired of life, and is pursuing a descending and darkening way. After a partial cessation of his sensuous life, the soul of man, or its organs rather, are reinvigorated each day and his genius tries again what noble life it can make.
The word 'somnolence' refers to ______.
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- activeness
- joviality
- dynamism
- drowsiness
The Correct Option is D
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A true day is guided by .......
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- mechanical impulses
- natural instincts
- greedy desires
- overexertion
The Correct Option is B
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People should believe each day to be ...........
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- sacred
- unholy
- mechanical
- commercial
The Correct Option is A
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____must be controlled for the soul of a man to be lifted.
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- Senses
- Morals
- Prayer
- Holiness
The Correct Option is A
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Morning is referred to in this passage as ........... hour.
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- dark
- dismal
- evening
- auroral
The Correct Option is D
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