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Direction: In the following questions, you have several brie f passages with some questions following each passage. Read the passages carefully and. choose the best answer to each question out of the four alternatives.

Passage - IV

There are some men who seem to be always on the lookout for trouble and, they are seldom disappointed. Listening to such men one would think that this world is one of the stormiest and most disagreeable places. Yet, after all it is not such a bad place and the difficulty is often in the man who, is too thin - skinned. On the other hand, the man who goes out expecting people to be like himself, kind and brotherly, will be surprised at the kindness he meets even in the most unlike quarters. A smile is apt to be met with a responsive smile while the sneer is just as apt to provoke a snarl. Men living in the same neighbourhood may live vastly different lives. But it is not the neighbourhood which is quarrelsome, but the man within us. And we have it in our power to change our neighbourhood into a pleasant one by simply changing our own ways.

Which of the following is opposite in meaning to the expression 'thin skinned' as used in the passage?

A)  Insensitive        

B) Intelligent

C) Awkward                      

D) Obstinate