Direction: You have two brief passages with five questions following each passage. Read the passages carefully and choose the best answer to each question out of the four alternatives.
PASSAGE
Power and possession have been central pursuits of modern civilisation for a long time. They blocked out or distorted other features of the western renaissance (revival) which promised so much for humanity. What people have been and are still being taught to prize are money, success, control over the lives of others, acquisition of more and more objects. Modern social, political, and economic systems, whether capitalist, fascist or communist, reject in their working the basic principle that the free and creative unfoldment of every man, woman and child is the true measure of the worth of any society. Such unfoldment requires understanding and imagination, integrity and compassion, cooperation among people and harmony between the human species and the rest of nature. Acquisitiveness and the pursuit of power have made the modern man an aggressor against everything that is non-human; an exploiter and oppressor of those who are poor, meek and unorganised; a pathological type which hates and distrusts the world and suffers from both acute loneliness and false pride.
SOME IMPORTANT WORDS
pursuits : the act of looking for or trying to find something.
distorted : changed.
to prize : to value highly.
acquisition : the act of getting/acquiring something
capitalist : a person who owns or controls a lot of wealth and uses it to produce more wealth.
fascist : a person who supports central government that does not allow any opposition.
communist : a person who believes that all are treated equally.
unfoldment : known to all people.
Compassion :a strong feeling of sympathy for people who are suffering and a desire to help them.
integrity : the quality of being honest and having strong moral principles.
acquisitiveness : wanting very much to buy or get new possessions.
harmony : a state of peaceful existence and agreement
aggressor : a person, country, etc.
that attacks first oppressor : a person/group that treat somebody in a cruel and unfair way
pathological : not reasonable/sensible/controllable
acute : very serious/severe false
pride : a high opinion of oneself/one’s abilities, not based on real achievement/success