Comprehension
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.
- Which of the following are beyond science’s reach, according to the passage?
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Love and laughter, pain and loneliness
Correct Option: A
Love and laughter, pain and loneliness
- The word magic refers to
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setting of the sun, with all its beauty
Correct Option: D
setting of the sun, with all its beauty
- Why is it that science cannot express friendship with a formula?
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Friendship is beyond science’s mastery
Correct Option: C
Friendship is beyond science’s mastery
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
The achievement of science in the twentieth century has been very great. Its influence can be felt in every sphere of life. From the small pins and needles to the huge iron
sheets and joints, most of the things we require for our everyday use, come out of factories where scientific principles are utilized for practical ends. Science has enabled man to bring forces of nature under control and to use them for his own advantage. It has brought the distant parts of the world close together. Our knowledge of the universe has been much widened on account of the untiring efforts of the astronomers like Jeans and Eddington. Remarkable cures of human diseases have been possible owing to the discovery of some wonderful medicines.
SOME IMPORTANT WORDS
logical : seeming natural, reasonable or sensible
anatomical : related to human/animal body
desoriptive : saying what something/somebody is like
expository : intended to explain/describe something
- The most appropriate title for the passage will be
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Science, a great boon
Correct Option: B
Science, a great boon
- Science has proved a great boon for
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mankind
Correct Option: D
mankind