Wiley's GMAT Reading Comprehension Grail 2017 by Aristotle Prep

Author:Aristotle Prep
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Publisher: Wiley india Pvt. Ltd
Published: 2016-11-29T16:00:00+00:00

4.Which of the following assertions is best supported by the information in the passage?

(A)There has been controversy amongst philosophers over the issue of including natural beauty in the realm of philosophy.

(B)Natural beauty is not a reflection of beauty of the mind.

(C)The relation between man-made art and natural beauty is part of the science of aesthetics.

(D)Natural beauty finds no mention in the study of aesthetics.

(E)Natural beauty is permanent in nature.

Passage 38

What does laughter mean? What common ground can we find between the grimace of a merry-andrew, a play upon words, an equivocal situation in a burlesque and a scene of high comedy? What method of distillation will yield us invariably the same essence from which so many different products borrow either their obtrusive odour or their delicate perfume? Our excuse for attacking the problem in our turn must lie in the fact that we shall not aim at imprisoning the comic spirit within a definition. We regard it, above all, as a living thing. However trivial it may be, we shall treat it with the respect due to life. We shall confine ourselves to watching it grow and expand. We shall disdain nothing we have seen. We may gain from this prolonged contact, for the matter of that, something more flexible than an abstract definition—a practical, intimate acquaintance, such as springs from a long companionship. And we may also find that, unintentionally, we have made an acquaintance that is useful.

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