Question

Read the passage and answer the question that follows.

Once while travelling by the local bus, I got a seat beside a very strange man. He seemed interested in every passenger aboard. He would stare at a person, scribble some odd mathematical notations on his long notebook and then move on to the next. Being quite interested in what he was doing I asked him what all those notations meant and then came the startling reply. He saw a man's face not as a single unit but as thousands of squares put together. He was in fact a statistical expert and a budding artist learning the art of graphics.

The author found that man's reply quite startling because ____.

• A. a statistical expert cannot be a budding scientist
• B. a budding artist cannot be a statistical expert
• C. graphics is still a rare art form and he was learning it while travelling in a bus
• D. the fact that "a man's face can be analysed as thousands of squares" was, a strange concept.

Answer 1

The correct option is D the fact that "a man's face can be analysed as thousands of squares" was, a strange concept.

The fourth sentence mentions that the author was interested in what the man was doing and when he asks the man about it, he gets a startling reply. The reply was that the man sees a face as thousands of squares and not as a single unit. Thus, D is the correct answer.

The other choices are not accepted. None of them represents the man's reply.