Read the following paragraph to answer Questions 48 to 50Among the manifold misfortunes that may befall humanity, the loss of health is one of the severest.All the joys, which life can give, cannot outweigh the suffering of the sick. Give the sick maneverything and leave him with his suffering, he will feel half the world is lost to him. Lay him on a softsilken couch he will nevertheless groan sleepless under the presence of his suffering, while themiserable beggar, blessed with health, sleeps sweetly on the hard ground. Spread his table withdainty meals and the choicest drinks and he will thrust back the hand that proffers them, and envy thepoor man who thoroughly enjoys his dry crust. Surround him with the pomp of kings; let his chair be athrone and his crutch a world-swaying scepter, he will look with contemptuous eyes on marble, ongold, on purple, and would deem himself happy, could he enjoy, even were it under a thatched roof,the health of the meanest of his servants.48. What is the opposite of the word ‘contemptuous’?A. AdmiringB. SmilingC. CruelD. Angry.49. A miserable beggar sleeps sweetly on the hard ground because ________.A. he likes hard ground.B. he can’t sleep on a soft silken couch.C. he hates a soft silken couchD. of his good health.50. What is the strongest wish of a sick man?A. To get all the wealth of the world.B. To lie on a soft silken couch.C. To get rid of his suffering or illness.D. To eat sumptuous food.

What is the author's purpose in including the following paragraph in his argument about the dangers of human indifference to suffering?We are on the threshold of a new century, a new millennium. What will the legacy of this vanishing century be? How will it be remembered in the new millennium? Surely it will be judged, and judged severely, in both moral and metaphysical terms. These failures have cast a dark shadow over humanity: two World Wars, countless civil wars, the senseless chain of assassinations (Gandhi, the Kennedys, Martin Luther King, Sadat, Rabin), bloodbaths in Cambodia and Algeria, India and Pakistan, Ireland and Rwanda, Eritrea and Ethiopia, Sarajevo and Kosovo; the inhumanity in the gulag and the tragedy of Hiroshima. And, on a different level, of course, Auschwitz and Treblinka. So much violence; so much indifference.A.Wiesel is showing the audience that historical facts are sometimes inaccurate.B.Wiesel is showing the audience times he has suffered from indifference.C.Wiesel is showing how widespread the effects of indifference are.D.Wiesel is showing examples of times people were not indifferent to suffering.

(Direction for Q 24-28) : Rearrange the jumbled paragraph. READ THE PASSAGE AND ANSWER THE QUESTIONSIn the world today we make health an end in itself. We have forgotten that health is 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 pays very little attention to health but very much attention to those who imagine that 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. The healthy man should not be wasting time talking about health: he should be using health for work. The work does the work that good health possible.Modern medicine is primarily concerned with(1 Point)promotion of good healthpeople suffering from imaginary illnesspeople suffering from real illnessincreased efficiency in work25.The passage suggests that(1 Point)health is an end in itselfhealth is a blessinghealth is only means to an endwe should not talk about health26.Talking about the health all time makes people(1 Point)always suffer from imaginary illnesssometimes suffer from imaginary illnessrarely suffer from imaginary illnessoften suffer from imaginary illness27.The passage tells us(1 Point)how medicine should be manufacturedwhat healthy man should or should not dowhat television programmes should be abouthow best to imagine illness28.A healthy man should be concerned with(1 Point)his work which good health makes possiblelooking after his healthhis health which makes work possibletalking about health

Click to read the passage from "The Perils of Indifference," by Elie Wiesel. Then answer the question.Which of the following evidence from the passage best supports the idea that people have been indifferent to human suffering?A.He was finally free, but there was no joy in his heart.B.Surely it will be judged, and judged severely, in both moral and metaphysical terms.C.two World Wars, countless civil wars, the senseless chain of assassinationsD.We are on the threshold of a new century, a new millennium.SUBMITarrow_backPREVIOUS

Death and dying in psychology in 50 words

Rearrange the following six sentences into proper meaning paragraph A) Happiness, if it all found, is accompanied with sorrow B) This attitude helps us to cope up with our unhappiness C) The world is full of miseries, problems, risk and discomfort D) It also help us to be sympathetic to others who are more unhappy E) Therefore, it seems to be wise to compare our lot with lot of those who are less fortunate F) None can find here perfect happiness