DSSSB · English
Passage: Read the given passage carefully and answer the questions that follow. O’Connell Street is the main thoroughfare of Dublin City. Although it is not a particularly long street, Dubliners will proudly tell the visitor that it is the widest street in all of Europe. This claim usually meets with protests, especially from French tourists, claiming the Champs Elysees of Paris as Europe’s widest street. But the witty Dubliner will not easily relinquish bragging rights and will trump the French visitor with a fine distinction: The Champs Elysees is a boulevard; O’Connell is a street. Divided by several important monuments running the length of its center, the street is named for Daniel O’Connell, an Irish patriot. His monument stands at the lower end of the road, that is, the end closest to the river Liffey that bisects Dublin. O’Connell stands high above the unhurried crowds of shoppers, business people, and students on a sturdy column, surrounded by four serene angels seated at each corner of the monument’s base. Further up the street is the famous General Post Office that locals affectionately call the GPO. During the 1916 rebellion, the GPO was taken over from British rule and occupied by Irish rebels, sparking weeks of armed combat in the city’s center. To this day, the angels of O’Connell’s monument bear the marks of the fighting: One sits reading calmly, apparently unaware of the bullet hole dimpling her upper arm; another, reaching out to stroke the ears of a huge bronze Irish wolfhound has survived what should be a mortal wound to her heart. Question: Select the most appropriate synonym of the given word. Unaware
- Conscious
- Oblivious
- Unwanted
- Taught
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