Comprehension
Direction: A passage is given with 5 questions following it. Read the passage carefully and choose the best answer to each question out of the four alternatives.
PASSAGE
In the world today we make health an end in itself. We have forgotten that health 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, pay very little attention to health but very much attention to those who imagine 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. A healthy man should not be wasting time talking about health : he should be using health for work.
- The passage suggests that
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health is only a means to an end
Correct Option: C
health is only a means to an end
- Modern medicine is primarily concerned with
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people suffering from imaginary illness
Correct Option: B
people suffering from imaginary illness
Direction: A passage is given with 5 questions following it. Read the passage carefully and choose the best answer to each question out of the four alternatives.
PASSAGE
The antigen-antibody immunological reaction is used to be regarded as typical of immunological responses. Antibodies are proteins synthesized by specialized cells called plasma cells, which are formed by lymphocytes (cells from the lymph system) when an antigen, a substance foreign to an organism’s body, comes in contact with lymphocytes. Two important manifestations of antigen-antibody immunity are lysis, the rapid physical rupture of antigenic cells and the liberation of their contents into the surrounding medium, and phagocytosis, a process in which antigenic particles are engulfed by and very often digested by macrophages and polymorphs. The process of lysis is executed by a complex and unstable blood constituent known as complement, which will not work unless it is activated by a specific antibody; the process of phagocytosis is greatly facilitated when the particles to be engulfed are coated by a specific antibody directed against them.
- Phagocytosis is a process in which antigenic particles are _____ by and very often digested by macrophages and polymorphs.
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engulfed
Correct Option: D
engulfed
- Which of the following statement is true in the context of the essay?
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Complement is a blood constituent
Correct Option: C
Complement is a blood constituent
- What happens when an antigen comes in contact with lymphocytes?
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Plasma cells are formed
Correct Option: B
Plasma cells are formed