Prelims 2013 • Paper 2 (CSAT) • Q.72

Prelims 2013Paper 2 (CSAT) • Q.72
PrelimsPaper 2 (CSAT)2013 • Q.72
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Reading Comprehension Passage / Context

English Passage - 3 A stout old lady was walking with her basket down the middle of a street in Petrograd to the great confusion of the traffic and no small peril to herself. It was pointed out to her that the pavement was the place for foot-passengers, but she replied, "I'm going to walk where I like. We've got liberty now." It did not occur to the dear lady that if liberty entitled the foot-passenger to walk down the middle of the road it also entitled the taxi-driver to drive on the pavement, and that the end of such liberty would be universal chaos. Everything would be getting in everybody else's way and nobody would get anywhere. Individual liberty would have become social anarchy.

It was pointed out to the lady that she should walk on the pavement because she was
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