79. Reading Skills Comprehension: Television

Television

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 With the coming of T. V., the radio no longer holds the same attraction for people as it did once. Yet somehow I have not quite reconciled myself to the idea of sitting in front of the T.V. viewing it. I prefer the radio set, the good old box by your bedside. And here again, the older and the larger the radio set is better for me. I don’t like these new-fangled transistors. Maybe I am old fashioned.

1.The word new-fangled means—

(A) Colourfully decorated

(B) Newly come into fashion.

(C) Recently assembled

(D) Very complex

2. “Yet somehow …………viewing it,” means that the person has not fully ………… the idea

 (A) admit

(B) Applied

(C) Accepted

(D) understand

3. The author likes—

(A) large radio sets

(B) radio sets

(C) old ratio sets

(D) all of these.

4. The passage implies that the author—

(A) dislikes radio sets

(B) Prefers radio sets to transistors and the T.V.

(C) has a liking for television

(D) prefers transistors to radio sets.

ANSWERS

1. (D)                

2. (D)

3. (D)

4. (D)

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