Question

Read the passage and answer the questions that follow.

The New Year is a time for resolutions. Mentally at least, most of us could compile formidable lists of do's and dont's. The same old favourites recur year in and year out with monotonous regularity. Past experience has taught us that certain accomplishments are beyond attainment. If we remain inveterate smokers, it is only because we have so often experienced to frustration that results from failure. Most of us fail in our efforts at self-improvement because our schemes are too ambitious and we never have time to carry them out. We also make the fundamental error of announcing our resolutions to everybody so that we look even more foolish when we slip back into our old bad ways.

'The same old favourites recur... with monotonous regularity' implies that ______.

• A. we want to be so perfect that we include some items regularly
• B. we have been so regularly doing certain things that they have become monotonous
• C. in spite of repeated failures, we still would like to try one more time
• D. some favourite actions if repeated often could become monotonous

Answer 1

The correct option is C in spite of repeated failures, we still would like to try one more time

A careful reading of the passage reveals that the author says that we make the same resolution each year which we had failed to keep the previous year and this happens almost every year. In this context, option C is the best answer.