Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions. So Tiziano continued to draw. But one thing troubled him greatly--all the pictures he made were black, drawn with his piece of black charcoal. Yet all round him glowed a perfect glory of colour--the beautiful blue of the sky; the delicate, changing pink of the great jagged peaks above him; the red, blue and yellow wild flowers; the golden brilliance of sunshine; and the rich, soft, mellowed tints in the old houses of the town. Colour! Tiziano loved it more than anything else in the world. Yet how was he to reproduce it and get it into his pictures? He had no money to buy paints, and paints were expensive in those days. His father, who was a mountaineer, would never listen to anything so foolish as buying paints for a boy when the family needed food, clothing and fuel to keep them warm. Let Tiziano make shoes! There was a trade for a man! All the same, Tiziano continued to dream of painting and to wonder if there was not some way he could make a picture in colours. The day before the festival of flowers, Tiziano chanced to pass the spot where the garlands had been woven the evening before. Suddenly, he noticed stains on the stones of the walk before the inn. They were stains from flowers that had been dropped and crushed, and those stains were coloured! They were every colour that a painter needed! In a moment the feast and the fun went out of Tiziano's mind. Catarina saw her brother heading away from the merriment and hastening out of the village. She ran to bring him back and found him in a meadow like a variegated quilt from the brilliance of the wild flowers. "Tiziano!" she called, "Why are you running away from the feast?" The boy did not answer for a moment. Too often he had been teased by his family and the villagers for the crazy dreams in his head. At last he answered bluntly, "I have found that the stains of flowers make colours, and I am going to paint a picture."
In the third paragraph the word "Variegated" means :
Understanding the Meaning of 'Variegated' in the Passage
The question asks for the meaning of the word "Variegated" as it is used in the third paragraph of the provided passage.
Let's look at the sentence where the word appears:
"...She ran to bring him back and found him in a meadow like a variegated quilt from the brilliance of the wild flowers."
In this sentence, the meadow is being compared to a "variegated quilt" because of the "brilliance of the wild flowers". Wild flowers often come in many different colors. A quilt is typically made of patches or patterns. The brilliance of multi-colored wild flowers in a meadow would make it appear as if it has patches of different colors, much like a quilt.
Therefore, the word "variegated" in this context describes something that is marked with different colors or patches.
Let's examine the given options:
- Option 1: marked with patches of different colours
- Option 2: having different designs
- Option 3: flowery
- Option 4: of different varieties
Based on the context of a meadow filled with bright wild flowers appearing like a quilt, the most fitting meaning for "variegated" is being marked with different colors or patches.
- Option 1 directly matches this understanding.
- Option 2, "having different designs," might apply to a quilt itself, but the meadow's appearance described here is primarily due to the colors of the flowers, not intricate designs.
- Option 3, "flowery," describes the meadow's content, not its visual appearance in terms of color variation.
- Option 4, "of different varieties," describes the types of flowers, but "variegated" describes the visual outcome of having many different types (and thus colors) of flowers together.
Thus, in the context of the passage, "variegated" means marked with patches of different colours.
The final answer is the option that means marked with patches of different colours.
Important Questions from Reading Comprehension
Why, according to the writer can't people be motivated to use a resource prudently?
1. They feel that others may overuse the resource
2. It is possible to substitute the resource
3. Abundance of the resource availability
Select the correct answer using the code given below:
When do people use resources exhaustively?
The self-interest of people affects the use of renewable resources
People rooted in a locality
Which among the following is closest in meaning with the word 'deplete'?
