Section 3
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Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions. Your answer to these questions should be based on passage only.
Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion. The general recognition of this fact is show in the proverbial phrase, 'It is the busiest man who has time to spare. 'Thus, an elderly lady at leisure can spend the entire day writing a postcard to her niece. An hour will be spent in finding the postcard, another hunting for spectacles, half an hour to search for the address, an hour and a quarter in composition and twenty minute in deciding whether or not to take an umbrella when going to the pillar box in the street. The total effort that would occupy a busy man for three minutes, all told, may in this fashion leave another person completely exhausted after a day of doubt, anxiety and toil.
Here the method of elimination applies and simple inference confirms it.
(a) and (d) are eliminated at the first reading. The description that the lady who has enough leisure time takes the entire day in writing the postcard gives us the clue that the correct answer is (c). This again is complex inference.
The answer here is (b). This can be found out through simple inference.
A statement is made right in the beginning of the passage and the story of the lady illustrates the fact that whatever time is available for a work, people tend to use all of it.
Here, the answer is (B). It requires inference. The answer is to be inferred from the facts given in the passage that the more time you have ,the more you will need. Therefore, the answer is arrived at through complex inference.
The answer is (D) and it based on the information given in the passage.
Can be derived through implied information. The lady has to go to the pillar box to drop her letter.