...Roger Rosenblatt, in essay “I am writing Blindly,” believes that people “are a narrative species,” who need to write messages to one another. To write something is an integral part of a person’s life because “we exist by storytelling”. For example, Rosenblatt shows us that people will write for as long as they live. “The impulse… like a biological fact” gives people the urge to leave one another the moments of their lives on paper. If people write, then they live and develop. The opposite example would be schizophrenics who “suffer from a loss of story,” because their “pattern making faculties fail,” and their “brain breaks down.” Writing, as one kind of communication, is a connection or bridge between an author and a reader, alive and lifeless, past and future and “has been so important in America” Rosenblatt thinks. Messages to other people or blind writing is “the deep proof of our need to spill, and keep spilling, lies in reflex, often in desperate circumstances”. For example, a doomed Russian sailor trapped on the crippled submarine Kursk scratched out a last letter to his wife revealing that he and twenty-two comrades survived the blasts that sent them to the bottom of the sea. As Lt. Dmitry Kolesnikov struggled to put down his final thoughts, freezing water seeped into the compartment and he knew there was little chance of escape. "None of us can get to the surface," the twenty-seven-year-old officer wrote. "Two...
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...CAT Reading Comprehension CAT Study Materials Reading Comprehension Sample Questions Directions: Each reading passage in this section is followed by questions based on the content of the reading passage. Read the passage carefully and chose the best answer to each question. The questions are to be answered on the basis of what is stated or implied in the passage. 1. But man is not destined to vanish. He can be killed, but he cannot be destroyed, because his soul is deathless and his spirit is irrepressible. Therefore, though the situation seems dark in the context of the confrontation between the superpowers, the silver lining is provided by amazing phenomenon that the very nations which have spent incalculable resources and energy for the production of deadly weapons are desperately trying to find out how they might never be used. They threaten each other, intimidate each other and go to the brink, but before the total hour arrives they withdraw from the brink. 2. 1. The main point from the author's view is that A. Man's soul and spirit can not be destroyed by superpowers. B. Man's destiny is not fully clear or visible. C. Man's soul and spirit are immortal. D. Man's safety is assured by the delicate balance of power in E. terms of nuclear weapons. Human society will survive despite the serious threat of total annihilation. Ans : E 2. The phrase 'Go to the brink' in the passage means A. Retreating from extreme danger. B. Declare war on each other. C. Advancing...
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