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:
Vacationing on a motorcycle, you see things in a way that is completely different from any other. In a car you are always in a compartment, and because you are used to it you do not realise that through that car window everything you see is just more TV. You are a passive observer and it is all moving by you boringly in a frame. On a motorcycle, however, the frame is gone. You are completely in contact with it all. You are in the scene, not just watching it anymore, and the sense of presence is overwhelming.
The writer likes travelling on the motorcycle. What is the most likely reason for this ?
- AThe motorcycle has no windows.
- BThe motorcycle does not go as fast as a car.
- CAs the traveller is used to cars, travelling by motorcycle is a change.
- DTravelling by motorcycle, the writer feels that he is part of the scenery.
Explanation
The writer contrasts the car, where 'you are a passive observer' watching the world 'in a frame', with the motorcycle, where 'the frame is gone' and 'you are in the scene'. The key sentence is 'You are in the scene, not just watching it anymore, and the sense of presence is overwhelming'. The reason he likes the motorcycle is this feeling of being part of the scenery. Hence option (d) is correct.