Comprehension Passages Questions & Answers

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In the world today, we make health an end in itself. We have forgotten that health is really means to enable a person to do his work and do it well. A lot of modern medicine, and this includes many patients as well as many physicians pays very little attention to health but very much attention to those who imagine that they are ill.

Our great concern with health is shown by the medical columns in newspapers, the health articles in popular magazines and the popularity of television programmes and all those books on medicine. We talk about health all the time. Yet for the most part, the only result is more people with imaginary illness. The healthy man should not be wasting time talking about health: he should be using health for work. The work that good health makes possible.

A healthy man should be concerned with

A.

his work which good health makes possible

B.

looking after his health

C.

his health which makes work possible

D.

talking about health

Correct answer is A

No explanation has been provided for this answer.

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In the world today, we make health an end in itself. We have forgotten that health is really means to enable a person to do his work and do it well. A lot of modern medicine, and this includes many patients as well as many physicians pays very little attention to health but very much attention to those who imagine that they are ill.

Our great concern with health is shown by the medical columns in newspapers, the health articles in popular magazines and the popularity of television programmes and all those books on medicine. We talk about health all the time. Yet for the most part, the only result is more people with imaginary illness. The healthy man should not be wasting time talking about health: he should be using health for work. The work that good health makes possible.

The passage tells us

A.

how medicine should be manufactured

B.

what a healthy man should or should not do

C.

what television programmes should be about

D.

how best to imagine illness

Correct answer is B

No explanation has been provided for this answer.

3.

In the world today, we make health an end in itself. We have forgotten that health is really means to enable a person to do his work and do it well. A lot of modern medicine, and this includes many patients as well as many physicians pays very little attention to health but very much attention to those who imagine that they are ill.

Our great concern with health is shown by the medical columns in newspapers, the health articles in popular magazines and the popularity of television programmes and all those books on medicine. We talk about health all the time. Yet for the most part, the only result is more people with imaginary illness. The healthy man should not be wasting time talking about health: he should be using health for work. The work that good health makes possible.

Talking about health all time makes people

A.

always suffer from imaginary illness

B.

sometimes suffer from imaginary illness

C.

rarely suffer from imaginary illness

D.

often suffer from imaginary illness

Correct answer is D

No explanation has been provided for this answer.

4.

In the world today, we make health an end in itself. We have forgotten that health is really means to enable a person to do his work and do it well. A lot of modern medicine, and this includes many patients as well as many physicians pays very little attention to health but very much attention to those who imagine that they are ill.

Our great concern with health is shown by the medical columns in newspapers, the health articles in popular magazines and the popularity of television programmes and all those books on medicine. We talk about health all the time. Yet for the most part, the only result is more people with imaginary illness. The healthy man should not be wasting time talking about health: he should be using health for work. The work that good health makes possible.

The passage suggests that

A.

health is an end in itself

B.

health is blessing

C.

health is only means to an end

D.

we should not talk about health

Correct answer is C

No explanation has been provided for this answer.

5.

In the world today, we make health an end in itself. We have forgotten that health is really means to enable a person to do his work and do it well. A lot of modern medicine, and this includes many patients as well as many physicians pays very little attention to health but very much attention to those who imagine that they are ill.

Our great concern with health is shown by the medical columns in newspapers, the health articles in popular magazines and the popularity of television programmes and all those books on medicine. We talk about health all the time. Yet for the most part, the only result is more people with imaginary illness. The healthy man should not be wasting time talking about health: he should be using health for work. The work that good health makes possible.

Modern medicine is primarily concerned with

A.

promotion of good health

B.

people suffering from imaginary illness

C.

people suffering from real illness

D.

increased efficiency in work

Correct answer is B

No explanation has been provided for this answer.

6.

It is to progress in the human sciences that we must look to undo the evils which have resulted from a knowledge of physical world hastily and superficially acquired by population unconscious of the changes in themselves that the new knowledge has imperative. The road to a happier world than any known in the past lies open before us if atavistic destructive passions can be kept in leash while the necessary adaptations are made.

Fears are inevitable in time, but hopes are equally rational and far more likely to bear good fruit. We must learn to think rather less of the dangers to be avoided than of the good that will lie within our grasp if we can believe in it and let it dominate our thoughts. Science, whatever unpleasant consequences it may have by the way, is in its very nature a liberator, a liberator of bondage to physical nature and in time to come, a liberator from the weight of destructive passions. We are on the threshold of utter disaster or unprecedentedly glorious achievement. No previous age has been fraught with problems so momentous; and it is to science that we must look to for a happy future.

To carve out a bright future, man should

A.

analyse dangers that lie ahead

B.

try to avoid dangers

C.

overcome fear and dangers

D.

cultivate a positive outlook

Correct answer is D

No explanation has been provided for this answer.

7.

It is to progress in the human sciences that we must look to undo the evils which have resulted from a knowledge of physical world hastily and superficially acquired by population unconscious of the changes in themselves that the new knowledge has imperative. The road to a happier world than any known in the past lies open before us if atavistic destructive passions can be kept in leash while the necessary adaptations are made.

Fears are inevitable in time, but hopes are equally rational and far more likely to bear good fruit. We must learn to think rather less of the dangers to be avoided than of the good that will lie within our grasp if we can believe in it and let it dominate our thoughts. Science, whatever unpleasant consequences it may have by the way, is in its very nature a liberator, a liberator of bondage to physical nature and in time to come, a liberator from the weight of destructive passions. We are on the threshold of utter disaster or unprecedentedly glorious achievement. No previous age has been fraught with problems so momentous; and it is to science that we must look to for a happy future.

Fears and hopes according to the author

A.

are closely linked with the life of modern man

B.

can bear fruit

C.

can yield good results

D.

are irrational

Correct answer is A

No explanation has been provided for this answer.

8.

It is to progress in the human sciences that we must look to undo the evils which have resulted from a knowledge of physical world hastily and superficially acquired by population unconscious of the changes in themselves that the new knowledge has imperative. The road to a happier world than any known in the past lies open before us if atavistic destructive passions can be kept in leash while the necessary adaptations are made.

Fears are inevitable in time, but hopes are equally rational and far more likely to bear good fruit. We must learn to think rather less of the dangers to be avoided than of the good that will lie within our grasp if we can believe in it and let it dominate our thoughts. Science, whatever unpleasant consequences it may have by the way, is in its very nature a liberator, a liberator of bondage to physical nature and in time to come, a liberator from the weight of destructive passions. We are on the threshold of utter disaster or unprecedentedly glorious achievement. No previous age has been fraught with problems so momentous; and it is to science that we must look to for a happy future.

If man's bestial yearning is controlled

A.

the future will be tolerable

B.

the future will be brighter than the present

C.

the present will be brighter than the future

D.

the present will become tolerable

Correct answer is B

No explanation has been provided for this answer.

9.

It is to progress in the human sciences that we must look to undo the evils which have resulted from a knowledge of physical world hastily and superficially acquired by population unconscious of the changes in themselves that the new knowledge has imperative. The road to a happier world than any known in the past lies open before us if atavistic destructive passions can be kept in leash while the necessary adaptations are made.

Fears are inevitable in time, but hopes are equally rational and far more likely to bear good fruit. We must learn to think rather less of the dangers to be avoided than of the good that will lie within our grasp if we can believe in it and let it dominate our thoughts. Science, whatever unpleasant consequences it may have by the way, is in its very nature a liberator, a liberator of bondage to physical nature and in time to come, a liberator from the weight of destructive passions. We are on the threshold of utter disaster or unprecedentedly glorious achievement. No previous age has been fraught with problems so momentous; and it is to science that we must look to for a happy future.

Human sciences should be developed because they will

A.

provide more knowledge of the physical world

B.

make us conscious of the changing world

C.

make us conscious of the changes in ourselves

D.

eliminate the destruction caused by a superficial knowledge of the physical world

Correct answer is D

No explanation has been provided for this answer.

10.

It is to progress in the human sciences that we must look to undo the evils which have resulted from a knowledge of physical world hastily and superficially acquired by population unconscious of the changes in themselves that the new knowledge has imperative. The road to a happier world than any known in the past lies open before us if atavistic destructive passions can be kept in leash while the necessary adaptations are made.

Fears are inevitable in time, but hopes are equally rational and far more likely to bear good fruit. We must learn to think rather less of the dangers to be avoided than of the good that will lie within our grasp if we can believe in it and let it dominate our thoughts. Science, whatever unpleasant consequences it may have by the way, is in its very nature a liberator, a liberator of bondage to physical nature and in time to come, a liberator from the weight of destructive passions. We are on the threshold of utter disaster or unprecedentedly glorious achievement. No previous age has been fraught with problems so momentous; and it is to science that we must look to for a happy future.

What does science liberate us from?

A.

fears and destructive passions

B.

slavery to physical nature and from passions

C.

bondage to physical nature

D.

idealistic hopes of glorious future

Correct answer is B

No explanation has been provided for this answer.