Discussion
Point out any two 'unavoidable lapses' in a boy of fourteen.
Answer: C
The two lapses named are the changes in voice and face: the voice grows hoarse, breaks and quavers, and the face grows suddenly angular and unsightly.
The passage says it is easy to excuse the shortcomings of early childhood 'but it is hard to tolerate even unavoidable lapses in a boy of fourteen', and the lines just before list the bodily changes of that age: he outgrows his clothes, his voice breaks and his face turns angular. These are the unavoidable ones, since the boy cannot help them.
Option A is wrong because the lisp belongs to the childish talk that earns him the name baby, not to the lapses of fourteen. Option B describes his emotional state, craving love and feeling like a stray dog, which the passage does not call a lapse. Option D, 'neither ornamental nor useful', is the writer's general verdict on the age.
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