XAT 2022 — VARC Question 26
Read the poem carefully, and answer the TWO questions that follow.
It hurts to walk on new legs:
The curse of consonants. The wobble of vowels.
And you for whom I gave up a kingdom
Can never love that thing I was.
When you look into my past
You see
Only weeds and scales.
Once I had a voice.
Now I have legs.
Sometimes I wonder
Was it a fair trade?
Read the passage carefully and answer the following question.
Labouring is simply what we do to survive. We labour to eat. To keep our bodieshealthy. To keep roof over our heads, and to keep life reproducing. All animalslabour, with or without coaxing…. There’s nothing special about labour, save for thefact that without it we would die.
Work, on the other hand, gives collective meaning to what we do. When we work toproduce something we both put something into and leave something lasting in theworld: a table, a house, a book, a car, a rug, a high precision piece of engineeringwith which we can order the days into time, or keep a body breathing.
Which of the following statements can be BEST concluded from the passage?
Answer & solution
Labour enables us to survive while work makes survival meaningful
- B
Doing what is asked of a role is labour, while going beyond the role is work
- C
Unacknowledged work is labour, while acknowledgement makes it work
- D
To be healthy needs labour, while making others healthy is work
- E
Terrace gardening is labour, while producing a vaccine is work
The paragraph's main idea is that labour is something we do for a living while work is different.
Option B is incorrect as the paragraph doesn't say that labour is something we do for a role. Options C and D are not mentioned in the paragraph. Option E gives an example, and it is not the whole idea of the given paragraph.
Answer is option A.