Directions: Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions given below it.
 
A bookshop is not something you find in every gali or mohalla these days. Books, which were once a staple diet for youngsters in their formative years, are fading out of their list of managements.

Ask any youngster which is the latest book he has read and he will be baffled. Apart from a few consistent readers, other just be fool themselves with a best-seller's name or lament the curriculum load for justifying themselves, like this seventeen year old school goer who says, "J just read my physics book".

Television has been blamed much for this calamitous situation, which is producing square faced people and a bookless society. Furthermore, today's children are under pressure to be smart and popular, to succeed on a social level. Parties, dancing, dating and hanging out at places like Nirula's. Wimpys and Priya complex being early. Moreover, the computers, video games, Internet, swimming lessons, cricketing and every youngster's passion for hour long tete-a-tete on telephone with friends eat up all their leisure time.

A child who is constantly under pressure to live up to his parent's expectations, at times unreasonable, does not like to throw himself into another set of books after the laborious schoolwork unless the child comes from a family of readers where intoxicating works or Shakespeare and Dickens are just a matter of pulling them out from the shelves.

Many parents also believe that today's children have become aware and demand logical reasoning for everything. They can no longer be fooled by fairy tales or animal stories, as they have seen no fairies or animals except for those old tried ones in the city zoo.
 
1. The interest of youngsters with regard to books now is

(a) is fading out
(b) becoming more sustained
(c) deplorable  
(d) getting bizarre
(e) static

Ans : is fading out

2. Which of the following statement is true in the context of the passage?

(a) Books are still a staple diet for youngsters
(b) Today's youngsters are will read
(c) Youngsters pass through public libraries.
(d) TV, parties and video games eat the leisure time of youngsters.
(e) Most youngsters have read the latest editions on book racks.

Ans : TV, parties and video games eat the leisure time of youngsters.

3. Which of the following statement proves that television alone is not responsible for creating a bookless society?

(a) Children of all ages love to watch TV
(b) Live coverage of cricket matches on TV is a draw
(c) Cartoon shows are avidly watched  
(d) Soap operas entertain housewives
(e) Pressure of studies leaves the children no time for TV.

Ans : Pressure of studies leaves the children no time for TV.

4. How are parents' expectations creating a problem for the youngsters?

(a) They are too demanding.
(b) Computers and video games take their time.
(c) Hanging out and partying leaves them no time.
(d) Cricket and Internet are a diversion.
(e) Children love to read Shakespeare and Dickens.

Ans : They are too demanding.

5. How do youngsters react when asked which latest book they have read?

(a) They become confused.
(b) They take a best seller's name.
(c) Both a and b.
(d) They repeat what ever they have heard about a best seller.
(e) They avoid answering.

Ans : Both a and b

6. What is today's child most interested in?

(a) Textbooks.
(b) Shakespeare and Dickens.
(c) Partying and hanging out.
(d) To be smart and popular.
(e) Meeting parental pressure.

Ans : To be smart and popular.

7. The reason why today's youngsters are not interested in books other than text-books is:

(a) They don't understand them
(b) They have no taste for them
(c) They are afraid of their parents
(d) They don't have access to them
(e) They are under constant pressure to live up to their parents expectations

Ans : They are under constant pressure to live up to their parents expectations

8. Why are children no longer interested in fairy tales?

(a) They are averse to reading tales of any kind.
(b) They have seen no fairies.
(c) They are afraid of them.
(d) They like detective stories.
(e) They prefer reading Shakespeare and Dickens.

Ans : They have seen no fairies.

9. How would you rate today's youngsters?

(a) Confused, baffled and pressurized.
(b) Careless and goalless.
(c) Focused.
(d) Lovers of cricket.
(e) Internet savvy.

Ans : Confused, baffled and pressurized.