What is the main difference between hearing and listening?
Answer and explanation
Correct answer: Hearing is receiving sound; listening involves paying attention to and understanding its meaning.
Hearing is the physical perception of sound and may happen without deliberate attention or understanding. Listening is an active mental process: the person focuses, interprets meaning, and often responds. Therefore B gives the correct distinction. The other options reverse the processes, treat them as identical, or assign them to the wrong message forms.
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What is the correct answer to this question?
Hearing is receiving sound; listening involves paying attention to and understanding its meaning.
Why is this the correct answer?
Hearing is the physical perception of sound and may happen without deliberate attention or understanding. Listening is an active mental process: the person focuses, interprets meaning, and often responds. Therefore B gives the correct distinction. The other options reverse the processes, treat them as identical, or assign them to the wrong message forms.
Which subject and chapter does this question cover?
This is a Class 10 English question. Chapter: First Flight Prose.
