Passage:
COMPREHENSION Directions: In this section there are four short passages. After each passage, you will find some questions based on the passage. First, read a passage and answer the questions based on it. You are required to select your answers based on the contents of the passage and opinion o f the author only. Passage-I Much rhapsodical nonsense has been written about the "Mona Lisa" and her enigmatic smile, and there have been endless speculations as to her character and the meaning o f her expression. It is all beside the mark. The truth is that the "Mona Lisa" is a study of modeling. Leonardo da Vinci had discovered that the expression o f smiling is much more a matter of modeling o f the cheek and of the forms below the eye than o f the change in the line of the lips. It interested him to produce a smile wholly by these delicate changes o f surface; hence the mysterious expression.
The word rhapsodical as used in the passage means
- Aplain
- Bunreadable
- Centhusiastic
- Duniformed
Explanation
'Rhapsodical' derives from 'rhapsody', an ecstatic, extravagantly enthusiastic expression of feeling. In the passage, 'rhapsodical nonsense' refers to the overblown, gushing praise written about the Mona Lisa's smile. 'Enthusiastic' captures this sense of effusive excitement. 'Plain' and 'unreadable' are unrelated, and 'uniformed' does not match the context of effusive writing. Hence option (C) is correct.