Comprehension: Read the following passage given below and answer the questions that follow by choosing the correct / most appropriate options: As primary education became compulsory from the late nineteenth century, children became critical for the publishing industry. As children’s press, devoted to literature for children alone, was set up in France in 1857. This press published new works as well told fairy tales and folk tales. The Grimm Brothers in Germany spent years compiling traditional folk tales gathered from peasants. What they collected was edited before the stories were published in a collection in 1812. Anything that was considered unsuitable for children or would appear vulgar to the elite, was not included in the published version. Rural folk tales thus acquired a new form. In this way, print recorded old tales but also changed them. ‘Women became important as readers as well as writers. Penny magazines were especially meant for women, as manuals teaching proper behaviour and housekeeping. Novelists in the nineteenth century saw women as important readers, Some of the best-known novelists were women: the Bronte sisters, George Eliot. Their writings became important in defining a new type of woman a person with will, strength of personality, determination and power to think, Lending libraries were in existence from the seventeenth century onwards. In the nineteenth century, lending libraries in English became instruments for educating white-collar workers, artisans and lower-middle class people. Sometimes, self- educated working class people wrote for themselves. After the working day was gradually shortened from the mid-nineteenth century, workers had some time for self-improvements and self-expression. They wrote political tracts and autobiographiesiin large numbers. 912 Which of thé following words means the same as the word ‘vulgar’ as usediin para 26f the passage?

1. irrelevant
2. irregular
3. irritating
4. indecent