निम्नलिखित में से कौन-सा/कौन-से कथन सही है/हैं?
- 1.इस पराकाष्ठापूर्ण कृत्य के लिए सौम्य समर्पण को भी उत्तरदायी माना जा सकता है, जहाँ व्यक्ति सामाजिक अपेक्षाओं के विरुद्ध कार्य करता है।
- 2.उम्र और अन्य कारकों के चलते अपनी सीमाओं के प्रति आत्मसमर्पण करने को आलस्य के साथ सम्मिश्रित नहीं किया जाना चाहिए।
- 3.‘प्रमुख अभिनेता’ सामान्यतः उसे कहते हैं, जो किसी चलचित्र में मुख्य भूमिका निभाता है; इस उदाहरण का निहितार्थ यह है कि ह्यू ग्रांट किसी ऐक्शन हीरो की भूमिका अदा नहीं कर रहे हैं, बल्कि किसी विश्राम लेते हुए व्यक्ति की भूमिका निभा रहे हैं !
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Which of the following statements is/are correct?
1. Radical action can also be attributed to mild surrender where one acts against societal expectations.
2. Submitting to one’s limitations, given the effect of age and other factors, ought not to be conflated with laziness.
3. ‘Leading man’ usually refers to one who plays the lead role in a movie; in this instance the implication is that Hugh Grant is performing the role of not an action hero, but that of a resting one!
Select the answer using the code given below.
(a) 1 and 2 only · (b) 2 and 3 only · (c) 1, 2 and 3 · (d) 3 only
उत्तर और व्याख्या · explanation in English
Answer: (c) 1, 2 और 3
The writer calls Grant's public nap 'quietly radical' — a gentle surrender that defies society's performance metrics. It is framed as yielding to limits, not laziness, given his age, and the closing line plays on 'leading man' as a hero of rest rather than action. All three statements read the passage correctly.
- ✓ 1. The nap is 'something quietly radical' and 'an elegant case for surrender' against 'society's relentless performance metrics'.
- ✓ 2. 'Not to laziness, but to limits' — and the passage cites 'the crushing weight of being a 64-year-old man' among possible reasons.
- ✓ 3. The actor becomes 'a leading man, not of action, but of rest' — a play on the film term.
Remember · Literary passages: decode each figure of speech the passage uses (radical, surrender, leading man) and test the statement against it.
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