|🍁UP BOARD ENGLISH NCERT CLASS 12🍁|

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. Passage 5
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The first thing that a scholar should bear in mind is that a book ought not to be read for mere amusement. Half-educated persons read for amusement, and are not to be blamed for it; they are incapable of appreciating the deeper qualities that belong to a really great literature. But a young man who has passed through a course of university training should discipline himself at an early day never to read for mere amusement. And once the habit of this discipline has been formed, he will find it
impossible to read for mere amusement. He will then
impatiently throw down any book from which he cannot obtain intellectual food, any book that does not make an appeal to the higher emotions and to his intellect. But on the other hand, the habit of reading for amusement becomes with thousands of people exactly the same kind of habit as wine-drinking or opium-smoking; it is like a narcotic; something that helps to pass the time, something that keeps up a perpetual condition of dreaming, something that eventually results in destroying all capacity for thought, giving exercise only to the surface parts of the mind, and leaving the deeper springs
of feeling and the higher faculties of perception unemployed.
(a) What sort of people read for amusement?
(b) What does the truly educated person read?
(c) What are the ill effects of reading for mere amusement?
(d) When should one train oneself for reading the right kind of books?
(e) (i) Explain the phrase 'intellectual food'.
(ii) Write the opposite word of 'discipline'.
(iii) Which word in the passage is nearest in meaning to 'entertainment'?