Directions: Read the following passage and answer the questions that follow the passage. Your answer should be based on the passage only. Studies serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability. Their chief use for delight, is in privateness and retiring; for ornament, is in discourse; and for ability, is in the judgement, and disposition of business. For expert men can execute, and perhaps judge of particulars, one by one; but the general counsels, and the plots and marshalling of affairs, come best from those that are learned. To spend too much time in studies is sloth; to use them too much for ornament, is affectation; to make judgement wholly by their rules, is the humour of a scholar. Crafty men condemn studies, simple men admire them, and wise men use them; for they teach not their own use; but that is a wisdom without them, and above them, won by observation.
The passage explicitly states, "To spend too much time in studies is sloth". Sloth is another word for idleness. Therefore, the author discourages excessive study because it leads to idleness.
Why other options are incorrect:
- Option 2: The passage doesn't mention the cost of studies.
- Option 3: The passage doesn't discuss health or hygiene implications.
- Option 4: The passage doesn't connect excessive studying with promoting contradiction.
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'?
