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SSC CGL 2017 PYQ — Question 69

SSC CGL Tier II English - 12/01/2017 • English • Q69

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Read the following passage carefully and choose the most appropriate answer to the question out of the four alternatives.

All art is, in an important sense, an escape. There is a sense in which the capacity to escape from
his present experience, to use his accumulated consciousness of the past to project a vision of the
future, is man's greatest and distinguishing ability. We must not forget the force of Aristotle's argument that poetry is valuable precisely because it shows men not simply as they are, but as they
ought to be or (in terms more sympathetic to us today) as they are capable of becoming.

The author believes that man's greatest and distinguishing ability is

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Correct answer: B

Explanation

The correct answer is option 2 i.e. his capacity to escape from his present experience.

It is clearly mentioned in the passage that "There is a sense in which the capacity to escape from his present experience, to use his accumulated consciousness of the past to project a vision of the future, is man's greatest and distinguishing ability."

Hence, the chosen option will be correct.