Which of the following statements is/are correct? 1. Hugh Grant was watching, from the Royal Box, the men's semifinal match on Centre Court between Flavio Cobolli and Novak Djokovic. 2. The phrase 'unexpected ace' in the context uses a term from the game of tennis to highlight Hugh Grant's somewhat uncharacteristic act of catching 'forty winks'; an act that is viewed with opprobrium. 3. Grant subjects the demands of society to the wisdom of his body. Select the answer using the code given below.

Passage

Was it the sun-dappled ambience, the strawberries and cream, the frustration of Flavio Cobolli's unforced errors against Serbian Novak Djokovic on Centre Court or simply the crushing weight of being a 64-year-old man in the third act of a very public life? Whatever the reason, Hugh Grant, the actor, deserves empathy. There he was, in the Royal Box at Wimbledon, flanked by Britain's well-dressed and well-rested spectators, watching the men's singles quarterfinals, when the actor did something quietly radical : head at a tilt, eyes closed, utterly unbothered, he took a nap. So praise be to Grant for serving up an unexpected ace. In that small, delicious moment, he didn't merely catch forty winks, he made an elegant case for surrender. Not to laziness, but to limits. To the body's quiet wisdom over society's relentless performance metrics. Wimbledon had its tennis. The perpetually sleep-deprived discovered a leading man, not of action, but of rest.

QUESTION

CSAT

Medium

Comprehension

Prelims 2026

Which of the following statements is/are correct?

Hugh Grant was watching, from the Royal Box, the men's semifinal match on Centre Court between Flavio Cobolli and Novak Djokovic.
The phrase 'unexpected ace' in the context uses a term from the game of tennis to highlight Hugh Grant's somewhat uncharacteristic act of catching 'forty winks'; an act that is viewed with opprobrium.
Grant subjects the demands of society to the wisdom of his body.

Select the answer using the code given below.

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Explanation

Answer: B — 3 only

Let us evaluate each statement based on the passage:

Hugh Grant was watching, from the Royal Box, the men's semifinal match on Centre Court between Flavio Cobolli and Novak Djokovic.
- This is incorrect. The passage clearly says that Hugh Grant was watching the men's singles quarterfinals, not the semifinals.
The phrase 'unexpected ace' uses a term from tennis to highlight Hugh Grant's act of catching 'forty winks'; an act that is viewed with opprobrium.
- This is incorrect. The phrase 'unexpected ace' does use a tennis term to describe Grant's unexpected nap, but the act is not viewed with opprobrium in the passage. The author praises Grant and says he deserves empathy.
Grant subjects the demands of society to the wisdom of his body.
- This is correct. The passage says Grant's nap was a surrender not to laziness, but to limits, and to the body's quiet wisdom over society's relentless performance metrics.