Question: Each of the questions below contains a paragraph followed by alternative summaries. Choose the option that best captures the essence of the paragraph.
You seemed at first to take no notice of your school-fellows, or rather to set yourself against them because they were strangers to you. They knew as little of you as you did of them; this would have been the reason for their keeping aloof from you as well, which you would have felt as a hardship. Learn never to conceive a prejudice against others because you know nothing of them. It is bad reasoning, and makes enemies of half the world. Do not think ill of them till they behave ill to you; and then strive to avoid the faults which you see in them. This will disarm their hostility sooner than pique or resentment or complaint.
Option 1 suggests that one should complain only when one finds others prejudiced against one, an idea which is not explicitly or implicitly given in the paragraph.
Option 2 completely presents the points discussed in the paragraph and is the answer.
Option 3 has missed a main point of avoiding the faults one sees in others.
Option 4 implies that one should make enemies if they behave badly with oneself, which has not been talked about in the passage.
Hence, the correct answer is option 2.