The passage discusses simplifying one's life and pursuing one's dreams with confidence. It states that if one advances in the direction of their dreams and lives as they have imagined, they will meet with unexpected success. Laws around them will expand or be interpreted in their favor. The less complex they make their life, the less complex the laws of the universe will appear. Dreams built in the air still have value if foundations are built under them.
The passage discusses simplifying one's life and pursuing one's dreams with confidence. It states that if one advances in the direction of their dreams and lives as they have imagined, they will meet with unexpected success. Laws around them will expand or be interpreted in their favor. The less complex they make their life, the less complex the laws of the universe will appear. Dreams built in the air still have value if foundations are built under them.
The passage discusses simplifying one's life and pursuing one's dreams with confidence. It states that if one advances in the direction of their dreams and lives as they have imagined, they will meet with unexpected success. Laws around them will expand or be interpreted in their favor. The less complex they make their life, the less complex the laws of the universe will appear. Dreams built in the air still have value if foundations are built under them.
The passage discusses simplifying one's life and pursuing one's dreams with confidence. It states that if one advances in the direction of their dreams and lives as they have imagined, they will meet with unexpected success. Laws around them will expand or be interpreted in their favor. The less complex they make their life, the less complex the laws of the universe will appear. Dreams built in the air still have value if foundations are built under them.
I learned this, at least, by my experiment: that if
one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. He will put somethings behind, will pass an invisible boundary; new, universal, and more liberal laws will begin to establish themselves around and within him; or the old laws be expanded, and interpreted in his favor in a more liberal sense, and he will live with the license of a higher order of beings. In proportion as he simplifies his life, the laws of the universe will appear less complex, and solitude will not be solitude, nor poverty poverty, nor weakness weakness. If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.
Q. Complete the idea that essaysist is conveying
by filling in the blank with ONE word from the passage.
To reach ‘castles in the air’, we have to have,
and believe in ______ . [2] If we knew all the laws of Nature, we should need only one fact, or the description of one actual phenomenon, to infer all the particular results at that point. Now we know only a few laws, and our result is vitiated, not, of course, by any confusion or irregularity in Nature, but by our ignorance of essential elements in the calculation. Our notions of law and harmony are commonly confined to those instances which we detect; but the harmony which results from a far greater number of seemingly conflicting, but really concurring, laws, which we have not detected, is still more wonderful. The particular laws are as our points of view, as, to the traveller, a mountain outline varies with every step, and it has an infinite number of profiles, though absolutely but one form. Even when cleft or bored through it is not comprehended in its entireness.
Q. Complete the idea that essaysist is conveying
by filling in the blank with ONE word from the essay.
We don’t know the ______ of Nature because we
know only the particular laws. [3]
Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in. (a)I drink
at it; but while I drink I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is. Its thin current slides away, but eternity remains. I would drink deeper; fish in the sky, whose bottom is pebblywith stars. I cannot count one. (b)I know not the first letter of the alphabet. I have always been regretting that I was not as wise as the day I was born. The intellect is a cleaver; it discerns and rifts its way into the secret of things. I do not wish to be any more busy with my hands than is necessary. (c)My head is hands and feet. I feel all my best faculties concentrated in it. My instinct tells me that my head is an organ for burrowing, as (d)some creatures use their snout and fore paws, and with it I would mine and burrow my way through these hills. I think that the richest vein is somewhere hereabouts; so by the diviningrod and thin rising vapors I judge; and here (e)I will begin to mine.
Q1. Which of the following is NOT a figurative
expression?
Q2. Find the phrase in the passage that best
corresponds to the underlined ‘the richest vein’. [4]
This is a delicious evening, when the whole body is
one sense, and imbibes delight through every pore. I go and come with a strange liberty in ______, a part of herself. As I walk along the stony shore of the pond in my shirt-sleeves, though it is cool as well as cloudy and windy, and I see nothing special to attract me, all the elements are unusually congenial to me. The bullfrogs trump to usher in the night, and the note of the whip-poor-will is borne on the rippling wind from over the water. Sympathy with the fluttering alder and poplar leaves almost takes away my breath; yet, like the lake, my serenity is rippled but not ruffled. These small waves raised by the evening wind are as remote from storm as the smooth reflecting surface. Though it is now dark, the wind still blows and roars in the wood, the waves still dash, and some creatures lull the rest with their notes. The repose is never complete. The wildest animals do not repose, but seek their prey now; the fox, and skunk, and rabbit, now roam the fields and woods without fear. They are Nature's watchmen -- links which connect the days of animated life.
Q1. Fill in the blank with suitable word from the passage. (change the form if necessary)
Q2. Write down the sentence which expresses an
exaggerated expression(hyperbole) from the passage. [5] Let us consider for a moment what most of the trouble and anxiety which I have referred to is about, and how much it is necessary that we be troubled, or at least careful. It would be some advantage to live a primitive and frontier life, though in the midst of an outward civilization, if only to learn what are the gross necessaries of life and what methods have been taken to obtain them; or even to look over the old day-books of the merchants, to see what it was that men most commonly bought at the stores, what they stored, that is, what are the grossest groceries. For the improvements of ages have had but little ________ on the essential laws of man's existence; as our skeletons, probably, are not to be distinguished from those of our ancestors.