Read the following passage and answer the item that follows. Your answers to this item should be based on the passage only.

There is no harm in cultivating habits so long as they are not injurious. Indeed, most of us are little more than bundle of habits. Take away our habits and the residuum would hardly be worth bothering about. We could not get on without them. They simplify the mechanism of life. They enable us to do a multitude of thing automatically, which, if we had to give fresh and original thought to them each time, would make existence an impossible confusion.

The author suggests that habits  

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  1.    tend to make our lives difficult
  2.    add precision to our lives
  3.    make it easier for us to live
  4.    tend to mechanize our lives

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Option 3 :    make it easier for us to live
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The correct answer is 'make it easier for us to live'.

Key Points

  • The entire passage talks about Habits.
  • But here we are talking about habits that make our life simpler and easier.
  • If we do things not according to that habit then we might feel some uneasiness.
  • Hence, 'the author suggests that habits make it easier for us to live'.
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