2009 · Q30
PASSAGE II
Once while travelling by the local bus, I got a seat beside a very strange man. He seemed interested in every passenger aboard. He would stare at a person, scribble some odd mathematical notations on his long notebook and then move on to the next. Being quite interested in what he was doing I asked him what all those notations meant and then came the startling reply. He saw a man's face not as a single unit but as thousands of squares put together. He was in fact a statistical expert and a budding artist learning the art of graphics.
The author found that man's reply quite startling because
EnglishComprehension
- AA statistical expert cannot be a budding scientist
- BA budding artist cannot be a statistical expert
- CGraphics is still a rare art form and he was learning it while travelling in a bus
- DThe fact that ‘a man's face can be analysed as thousands of squares' was a strange concept
Explanation
The startling part was the strange concept of a face as thousands of squares.