Discussion
According to the passage, the meaning of the word 'slumber' is ..................... .
Answer: B
In the passage, 'slumber' means sleep.
The word occurs in recorded for the slumbering scientist, the strength of a shock that was too weak to waken him. A shock too weak to waken someone must be acting on a person who is asleep, and the earlier phrase 'instruments that neither slumbered nor slept' also pairs 'slumbered' with 'slept' as near equivalents.
A shock is what the rods record, not what 'slumber' means; 'ground' and 'suggestion' appear elsewhere in the passage in other roles and do not fit 'too weak to waken him'.
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