In this section, you have short passages. After each passage, you will find some items based on the passage. Read the passage carefully and answer the items based on it. You are required to select your answers based solely on the contents of the passage and the opinion of the author.
Passage:
I must say a word about the Eiffel Tower. I do not know what purpose it serves today. But I then heard it greatly disparaged as well as praised. I remember that Tolstoy was the chief among those who disparaged it. He said that the Eiffel Tower was a monument of man’s folly, not of his wisdom. Tobacco, he argued, was the worst of all intoxicants, inasmuch as a man addicted to it was tempted to commit crimes which a drunkard never dared to do; liquor made a man mad, but tobacco clouded his intellect and made him build castles in the air. The Eiffel Tower was one of the creations of a man under such influence. There is no art about the Eiffel Tower. In no way can it be said to have contributed to the real beauty of the Exhibition. Men flocked to see it and ascended it as it was a novelty and of unique dimensions. It was the toy of the Exhibition. So long as we are children we are attracted by toys, and the Tower was a good demonstration of the fact that we are children attracted by trinkets. That may be claimed to be the purpose served by the Eiffel Tower.
Why did Tolstoy believe that tobacco was the worst of all intoxicants ?
- AMan lost his intellectual abilities under the influence of tobacco.
- BTobacco kept man in a state of inebriation.
- CPeople who commit crimes are invariably addicted to tobacco.
- DStatements (a) and (b) above are correct in this context.
Explanation
Option (3) is completely ruled out because inebriation means in a state of excessive consumption of alcohol. Option (b) is also incorrect as according to this option, only those people commit crimes who consume tobacco. Thus, option (a) is correct if refer to the line, “liquor made a man mad, but tobacco clouded his intellect and made him build castles in the air”.