Directions (1-5): In the following questions, four alternatives are given for the idiom/phrase printed in bold in the sentence. Choose the alternative which best expresses the meaning of the idiom/phrase that is your answer.
1.To cut the Gordian Knot
(a) To perform an opening ceremony
(b) To solve a difficult problem
(c) To get a sharp injury
(d) to go for mountaineering
2.An olive Branch
(a) An offer of peace
(b) An idea
(c) A lady
(d) A Wicked person
3.The Primrose Path
(a) A modern marketplace
(b) The pursuit of pleasure
(c) Right of self- determination
(d) Process using high technology
4.Any old How
(a) Untidy
(b) Unpredictable
(c) A horror movie
(d) By chance
5.Lead Somebody To the alter
(a) To make somebody to learn games
(b) To marry somebody
(c) To arrest somebody
(d) To pass judgment
PASSAGE
Most authorities agree that St. dentine is “the lover’s saint”.
However, some writer s are inclined believe that no such person existed, sough there appears to be proof that was a Christian Bishop and that he suffered martyrdom under the Roman Emperor Claudius on February 14, 271 (A.D.) The story is that Emperor Claudius issued a decree forbidding marriage, Married men disliked leaving their farnilies to go to war and they did not make good soldiers, according to the Emperor's notion. Since good soldiers were needed, he decided that marriage had i be abolished.
The good priest Valentine heard this and was sad. He invited young lovers to come to him and secretly got them married. The emperor learnt of this and had Valentine put in prison, here the “friend of lovers’’ languished d died martyr to love. The Church made him a Saint and allotted the day of this death February 14, to him. So it not surprising that youngsters in tome made this day a special one in honour of the Saint; St. Valentine’s Day came to be known as "the day for rue lovers."
Three Egyptian words will tell us more about the customs of Valentine’s Day than all the falsehoods concerning Saint. In Engyptian language, Va or Fa means “to bear”, Len is “the name”, or “to name”. Then means to determine”. Thus the day or Valentine is that which determines whose name shall be borne by each person in this mode of marriage by drawing lots. The custom points to the time when chance, rather than choice, was the law. Marriage is still said to be a lottery. The custom of sending caricatures on Valentine’s Day is probably based on asserting the freedom of choice, and making a mock of chance.
If one decides to entertain people at a supper or dinner on Valentine’s Day, the decoration and even the food should follow the spirit of the day. Invitations are usually heart-shaped-a custom that originated with the first manufactured Valentines which were usually in the shape of hearts-darted through with arrows.
6.The writer means that St. Valen¬tine actually lived. Which of the following statements best reveal the meaning ?
(a) Most authorities agree that St. Valentine was known as “the lovers’ saint.”
(b) Valentine was put in prison and he died a martyr to love.
(c) There appears to be proof that he was a Christian Bishop in the 3rd century
(d) Some writers are inclined to believe that no such person existed
7.Married men did not make good soldiers because
(a) they did not want to leave their families.
(b) they did not like to go to war,
(c) their families did not want them to go to war.
(d) the emperor abolished their marriage.
8.Valentine was made a Saint by
(a) Emperor Claudius
(b) Married Men
(c) Young Lovers
(d) Roman Church
9.Valentine was called a martyr to love because
(a) He was young lover married
(b)he got me young lovers married
(c) he died for the sake of young lovers
(d) the King put him in prison
10.The first manufactured Valentines were usually heart-shaped. The word 'Valentine' here refers to
(a) St. Valentine
(b) Invitation cards
(c) Egyptian word
(d) Fourteenth February
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