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Unit 8 · Reading Comprehension English · June 2022 (Shift 1)

The poem portrays Mr Bleaney's:

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Correct answer: D. ordinariness

Explanation

The bare room and his predictable routines show his ordinariness.

Note: Passage II is Philip Larkin's 'Mr Bleaney' (The Whitsun Weddings, 1964), which is copyrighted and not reproduced. The speaker takes the shabby rented room of the departed Mr Bleaney, whose landlady recalls his dull routines. He comes to fear that how one lives — 'one hired box' — may measure one's worth. The source key marks 'luxuriousness', an evident error; corrected to option 4.

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