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Question 4
rthcoming edition of the magazine.
Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions that follow:
Two men were sitting immediately in front of me in the train. I was consequently able
to hear all that they were saying.
They were evidently strangers who had dropped into
a conversation. They both had the air of men
who considered themselves profoundly
r an account interesting as minds. It was plain that each laboured under the impression that he was a
of the picture ripe thinker.
nnection betwe
One had just been reading a book which lay in his lap.
"I have been reading some very interesting statistics," he was saying to the other
thinker
.
"Ah, statistics" said the other; "wonderful things, sir, statistics; very fond of them
myself
."
"I find, for instance," the first man went on, "that a drop of water is filled with
ittle
...with little...I forget just
what you call them-little-er-things, every cubic inch
containing-er-containing-let me
see..."
"Say a million," said the other thinker, encouragingly.
"Yes, a million, or possibly a billion--but at any rate, ever so many of them."
"Is it possible?" said the other. "But really, you know there are wonderful things in
he
world. Now, coal-take coal...
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"Very, good," said his friend, "let us take coal," settling back in his seat with the air
of an intellect about to feed itself.
"Do you know that every ton of coal burnt in an engine will drag a train of cars as
ong
as...I forget
the exact length, but say a train of cars of such and such a length, and
veighing, say so much-from-from-hum! for the moment the exact distance escapes
ne-drag it from..."
"From here to the moon," suggested the other.
"Ah, very likely; yes, from here to the moon. Wonderful, isn't it?"
Put the most stupendous calculation of all, Sir, is in regard to the distance from the
un. Positively, Sir, a cannon-ball-er-fired at the sun..."
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