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Read the following passage carefully :

(i) The habit of reading is one of the greatest resources of mankind, and we

enjoy reading books that belong to us much more than if they are borrowed.

A borrowed book is like a guest in the house; it must be treated with a

certain considerate formality. You must see that it sustains no damage; it

must not suffer while under your roof. You cannot leave it carelessly, you

cannot mark it, you cannot turn down its pages, you cannot use it familiarly.

And then, someday, although this is seldom done, you really ought to return

it.

(ii) But your own books belong to you; you treat them with that affectionate

intimacy that annihilates formality. Books are for use, not for show; you

should own no book that you are afraid to mark up or afraid to place on the

table, wide open and face down.

(iii) Everyone should begin collecting a private library in youth; the instinct of

private property, which is fundamental in human beings, can here be

cultivated with every advantage. One should have one’s own bookshelf, which

should not have doors, glass covering, and locks. The books in the shelf should

be free and accessible to the hand as well as to the eye. The best of mural

decorations are books: they are more varied in “colour and appearance’ than

any wallpaper, they are more attractive in design, and they have the prime

advantage of being separate personalities, so that if you sit alone in the room

in the firelight, you are surrounded with intimate friends. The knowledge that

they are there in plain view is both stimulating and refreshing. You do not

have to read them all. Most of my indoor life is spent in a room containing six

thousand books, and I have a stock answer to the invariable question that

comes from strangers, “Have you read all of these books?” “Yes, some of

them twice,” is my reply, both true and unexpected.

(iv) My devotion to reading has never made me a recluse. I cannot always see

my personal friends, but in a private library, I can, at any moment,

converse with my favourite author.

(1) Based on your reading of the passage, answer questions

given below. (1X10= 10)

(a) How should a borrowed book be treated?

(b) What is the greatest resource of mankind?

(c) “We enjoy reading books that belong to us much more Than if they

are borrowed”. Why?

(d) Why are books the best of mural decorations?

(e) What is both stimulating and refreshing?

(f) How should our own books be treated?

(g) What is the writer suggested in para 2?

(h) Why should a bookshelf not have doors, glass covering and locks,

according to the writer?

(i) What should everyone begin in youth?

(j) Find the word from the passage which means the same as the

following.
(k) To put out of existence (para 2)
______
(l) Never changing (para 3)________​