Question

read the following passage carefully before you choose your answers.
(the passage below is excerpted from an essay published
in the early twentieth century.)
every child has to learn the language he is born to,
is certain that he will make mistakes in the process,
especially as he is not taught it by any
blunders into what usage he can grasp.
now, if an adult foreigner were less
and we greeted his efforts with yells of
think ourselves grossly rude. and wha
ourselves if we further misled him by s
and phrases before him, encouraging
blunders, that we might laugh the mor
had visitors, inciting him to make thes
again to entertain the company? yet this is common
household sport, so long as there is a little child to act as
zany* for the amusement of his elders. the errors of a
child are not legitimate grounds of humour, even to those
coarse enough to laugh at them, any more than a toddling
baby’s falls have the same elements of the incongruous
as the overthrow of a stout old gentleman who sits down
astonished in the snow
a baby has to fall. it is natural, and not funny. so does

in context, the word “sport” (paragraph 2, “yet... household sport,”) is best interpreted to mean
a competition
b entertainment
c politeness
d instruction

Explanation:

The passage states the "household sport" refers to making a child act as a "zany" to amuse elders, and this is done to "entertain the company". This directly links the term to an activity for amusement.

Answer:

B. entertainment