Direction: In the following questions, you have a brief passage with 5 questions following the passage. Read the passage carefully and choose the best answer to each question out of the four alternatives.
PASSAGE
The capitalist system does not foster healthy relations among human beings. A few people own all the means of production and others have to sell their labour under conditions imposed upon them. The emphasis of capitalism being on the supreme importance of material wealth, the intensity of its appeal is to the acquisitive tendency. It promotes worship of economic power with little regard to the means employed for its acquisition and the end that it serves. By its exploitation of human beings to the limits of endurance, its concentration is on the largest profit rather than maximum production. Thus the division of human society is done on the basis of profit motive. All this is injurious to human dignity. And when the harrowed poor turn to the founders of religion for succour, they rather offer a subtle defense for the established order. They promise future happiness for present suffering. They conjure up visions of paradise to soothe the suffering majority and censure the revolt of the tortured men. The system imposes injustice, the religion justifies it.
SOME IMPORTANT WORDS
(1) foster (V.) : promote the growth of
(2) imposed (V.) : to force somebody/something to have to deal with something that is difficult/unpleasant
(3) intensity (N.) : high level/degree
(4) acquisitive (Adj.) : eager to acquire and possess things (possessions/ideas)
(5) endurance (N.) : the power to withstand hardship/ stress
(6) harrowed (Adj.) : looking as if you have suffered
(7) succour (N.) : assistance in time of difficulty
(8) subtle (Adj.) : not very noticeable
(9) conjure up (Phr. V.) : to make something appear as a picture in your mind
(10) paradise (N.) : heaven
(11) censure (V.) : rebuke (make fun) formally
(12) dehumanising (V.) : to make somebody lose his human qualities such as kindness, pity, etc.
(13) alleviate (V.) : make lesser/easier
(14) seek (V) : try to get/reach locate/discover
(15) redress (N.) : compensation
(16) perpetuate (V.) : cause to continue/prevail