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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
“Science cannot reduce the magic of a sunset to arithmetic, nor can it express friendship with a formula” observed the eminent medical researcher, Dr. Lous Orr. He added, “also beyond science’s mastery of nature are love and laughter, pain and loneliness and insights into truth and beauty”. This distancing of science from the human condition perhaps explains why most foreign tourists visiting Britain flock predictably to see the hallowed homes of playwrights, writers and poets, but choose to ignore the habitations where its eminent scientists lived and worked.
SOME IMPORTANT WORDS
insights : an understanding of what something is like.
distancing : a difference or lack of connection between two things.
flock : to go or gather together somewhere in large numbers.
predictably : in a predictable (capable of being foretold) manner.
hallowed :regarded as holy; sacred.

  1. Which of the following are beyond science’s reach, according to the passage?
    1. Love and laughter, pain and loneliness.
    2. Derivation of a formula.
    3. Complexity of time and tide.
    4. Work of the mind.
Correct Option: A

Love and laughter, pain and loneliness



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