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.
“In a car you are always in a compartment, and because you are used to it you do not realise that....... ” In this sentence, it’ refers to
- Atravelling in a car.
- Balways being in a compartment, e.g. one’s room, office.
- Cseeing the scenery through the window frame.
- Dseeing so much TV at home.
Explanation
The sentence says that because you are used to being in a compartment, you do not realise that everything you see through the car window is 'just more TV'. The 'it' you fail to notice is the framed, TV-like way of seeing the scenery — the passive viewing through the window frame that the whole passage criticises. Options (a), (b) and (d) describe literal compartments or home TV-watching, which misses the point. Hence option (c) is correct.