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Read the passage below and answer the questions following it.

When a businessman is an amateur, he plays cautious and is always willing to please. The purpose is very clear. He wants to make the most profits and he gives attention to every detail which can affect his business. But no sooner than the business turns into a roaring success, he forgets to be courteous and humble. This is not expected of a professional, who is a specialist in his profession. A professional is expected to give human relations more importance above anything else. But professional men make the same mistake.

Several years ago, I walked into the office of a well-known nose and throat specialist in Patna. Before he even looked at my tonsils, he asked me what my business was. He wasn’t interested in the size of my tonsils. He was interested in the size of my exchequer. His chief concern was not in how much he could help me. His chief concern was not in how much he could help me. His chief concern was in how much he could get out of me. The result was he got nothing. I walked out of his office with contempt for his lack of character.

The world is full of people like that; grabbing, self –seeking. So, the rare individual who unselfishly tries to serve others has an enormous advantage. He has little competition. Owen D. Young said, “The man who can put himself in the place of other men, who can understand the workings of their minds, need never worry about what the future has in store for him.”

1.The professional nose and throat specialist asked the author

a) What his trouble was
b) What his name was
c) What his business was
d) What his intention was

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2. The author walked out of the specialist’s office

a) With respect for his professional competence
b) With a feeling of contempt towards the specialist
c) With admiration for the professional’s straightforwardness
d) With a feeling of indifference towards the professional

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3. The phrase “grabbing, self-seeking” means:

a) Cruel and vicious
b) Blunt and arrogant
c) Selfish and possessive
d) Proud and assertive

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4. The chief concern of the specialist lay in:

a) The nature of the author’s illness
b) In how much he could help the author
c) In how much he could get out of the author
d) In how quickly he could cure the author’s malady

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5. Owen D. Young said that the man who is

a) Honest always gets success
b) Selfless reaches the top of his profession
c) Greedy fails miserably in life
d) Able to think from the point of view of others need not have any worry

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