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Direction: In the following questions, you have several brief 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 - III

Most of us are not very good listeners. We tend to believe that at meetings we shall be judged by the amount we can contribute in sheer volume of words rather than how much we absorb other people's ideas. When we are listening, or think we are, we find it almost impossible to stop talking to ourselves. We assume that what the other person is saying is dreary and pointless. We don't open our month, of course, because that is just plain bad manners; but we do tend to use our listening moment to work out and rehearse what we hope to say. Again and again at meetings you will hear people hotly denouncing views that have never been put forward or defending to the last breath those that have never been attacked. We live in a competitive world and most of us are concerned with putting our own ideas across or beating the other in argument about their ideas.

"It is just plain bad manners." This refers to

A) talking to ourselves                                      

B) using offensive language                                 

C) sleeping soundly while somebody is talking              

D) Interrupting the speaker frequently