We get great pleasure from reading. The more advanced a man is, the greater delight he will find in reading. The ordinary man may think that subjects like philosophy or science are very difficult and that if philosophers and scientists read these subjects, it is not for pleasure. But this is not true. The mathematician finds the same pleasure in his mathematics as the school boy in an adventure story. For both, it is a play of the imagination, a mental recreation and exercise.

   The pleasure derived from this activity is common to all kinds of reading. But different types of books give us different types of pleasure. First in order of popularity is novel-reading. Novels contain pictures of imaginary people in imaginary situations, and give us an opportunity of escaping into a new world very much like our world and yet different from it. Here we seem to live a new life, and the experience of this new life gives us a thrill of pleasure.

   Next in order of popularity are travel books, biographies and memoirs. These tell us tales of places we have not seen and of great men in whom we are interested. Some of these books are as wonderful as novels, and they have an added value that they are true. Such books give us knowledge, and we also find immense pleasure in knowing details of lands we have not seen and of great men we have only heard of.

   Reading is one of the greatest enjoyments of life. To book-lovers, nothing is more fascinating than a favorite book. And, the ordinary educated man who is interested and absorbed in his daily occupation wants to occasionally escape from his drudgery into the wonderland of books for recreation and refreshment.

According to the passage, travel books, biographies and memoirs ______.

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• The fourth paragraph of the passage primarily discusses .....

• The word “these" is the first passage refers to_________.

• With which of the following statements is the author most likely to agree?

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• The author’s main purpose is to...

• The word “consumption” in the paragraph is closest in meaning to _____.

• How is slang defined by the author?

• By whom (what) was the Decade for Women organized?

• The author mentions the “ shoesbox under the bed” in order to ................

• According to the passage, the way to stop water pollution is ...........

• This article is about ________.

• M.L. was ................. by the atmosphere in which he grew up.

• According to the passage, one function of the memory unit is ...............

• Which of the following can be inferred from the first paragraph?

• When is the most famous football game held annually?

• These changes in the Amercan home may ______________

• According to the passage, an overconfident front may hide _______.

• According to the passage, which of the following is learning in broad view comprised of?

• All of the following are mentioned as places in which memories are stored EXCEPT the:

• The word "analogue" in paragraph 5 most nearly means_____.

• The word “fledgling” in the third paragraph could be best replaced by which of the following?