Direction: Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions. Your answer to these questions should be based on passage only.
Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion. The general recognition of this fact is show in the proverbial phrase, 'It is the busiest man who has time to spare. 'Thus, an elderly lady at leisure can spend the entire day writing a postcard to her niece. An hour will be spent in finding the postcard, another hunting for spectacles, half an hour to search for the address, an hour and a quarter in composition and twenty minute in deciding whether or not to take an umbrella when going to the pillar box in the street. The total effort that would occupy a busy man for three minutes, all told, may in this fashion leave another person completely exhausted after a day of doubt, anxiety and toil.
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Who is the person likely to take more time to do work:
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- A busy man
- A man of leisure
- An elderly person
- An exhausted person
Correct Option: B
Here, the answer is (b). It requires inference. The answer is to be inferred from the facts given in the passage that the more time you have ,the more you will need. Therefore, the answer is arrived at through complex inference.
