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Test: Reading Comprehension - 1 - Question 1

Modern medicine is primarily concerned with

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‘A lot of modern medicine, and this includes many patients as well as many physicians, pays very little attention to health but a lot of attention to those who imagine that they are ill.'

Test: Reading Comprehension - 1 - Question 2

A man of courage is

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The author believes that the men who have moral courage are careful and has a reasoning attitude towards the general aspects of life like carrer, happiness, his whole future or his judgement. Therefore option D is correct.

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Test: Reading Comprehension - 1 - Question 3

Physical courage is an expression of

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This line describes "an emotional state which urges a man to risk injury or death, is physical courage"
Physical courage is an expression of emotions.
 

Test: Reading Comprehension - 1 - Question 4

A man with moral courage can

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In the passage, the author talks about the courage, which are of two types physical courage and moral courage.
The author have never met a man with moral courage who couldn't, when it was really necessary, face a situation boldly.
It means, a person with moral courage can face situations boldly.

Test: Reading Comprehension - 1 - Question 5

People with physical courage of ten lack

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The given passage is about the qualities of physical courage and moral courage. The speaker has seldom seen a man who possesses both these qualities. The statement "People with physical courage often lack" should be completed, and from the given options, 'capacity for reasoning' is the right answer, as capacity for reasoning is the quality of moral courage as mentioned in the line "a more reasoning attitude which enables him to take coolly his career...is moral courage". It's also mentioned that a man with physical courage often lacks moral courage (capacity for reasoning) as mentioned in the line "I have known men, who had marked physical courage, but lacked moral courage". Hence option B is correct. Option A is incorrect, because people with physical courage do not lack mental balance, they possess a strong emotional stability. It's not mentioned in the paragraph that people with physical courage lack a mental balance, hence option A is incorrect. 'Emotional stability' is the basis of physical courage, a person who possesses it cannot lack emotional stability, as mentioned "An emotional state which urges a man to risk injury or death, is physical courage." Hence option C is incorrect. 'Will to fight' is an indirect approach by people with physical courage, they're willing to risk themselves in case of injury or death, and that involves a willingness to fight, as in "urges a man to risk injury or death". Hence such people can't lack this will, and option D is incorrect.

Test: Reading Comprehension - 1 - Question 6

All virtues become meaningful because of

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The given passage speaks about moral courage and physical courage, and how important they are. "All virtues become meaningful because of courage", without which those virtues aren't virtues at all. The answer is option C as it's given in the first two lines of the passage "Courage is not only the basis of all virtue; it is its expression. Faith, hope, charity and all the rest don't become virtues until it takes courage to exercise them." These lines state that courage is the basis of all virtues, and a virtue is meaningful only when you have courage to exercise that virtue.

Test: Reading Comprehension - 1 - Question 7

The best way to win a friend is to avoid

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As mentioned in the passage, "A slip of the tongue, the use of an unusual word, or of an ambiguous word, and so on, may create an enemy where we had hoped to win a friend.", an 'ambiguous word' may create an enemy instead of winning a friend.
Hence the best way to win a friend is by not using an ambiguous word, or 'to avoid ambiguity in speech'.

Test: Reading Comprehension - 1 - Question 8

While talking to an uneducated person, we should use

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The passage tells us that we should handle the gift of speech carefully. While talking to another person we should use the speech he is most familiar with. In the case of an uneducated person also we should use the vocabulary he is most familiar with because "the ordinary speech of an educated man may strike an uneducated listener as pompous."

Test: Reading Comprehension - 1 - Question 9

If one used the same style of language with everyone, one would sound

Test: Reading Comprehension - 1 - Question 10

A 'slip of the tongue' means something said

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The sentence in the passage is "A 'slip of the tongue', the use of unusual word, or of an ambiguous word, and so on, may create an enemy where we had hoped to win a friend. ".
So, the term 'slip of tongue' is came with such things having similar meaning of lack of proper thought.

Test: Reading Comprehension - 1 - Question 11

Speech can be curse, because it can

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"Speech is a great blessing but it can also be a great curse, for while it helps us to make our intentions and desires known to our fellows. It can also, if we use it carelessly, make our attitude completely misunderstood." An example being: "A slip of the tongue...may create an enemy where we had hoped to win a friend."
Option A also mentions the same: speech can be a curse because it can 'make our attitude completely misunderstood'.

Test: Reading Comprehension - 1 - Question 12

The passage suggests that

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The passage suggests that “health is only means to an end.”

Test: Reading Comprehension - 1 - Question 13

Talking about the health all time makes people

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Option D is the right answer because it is clearly mentioned in the passage that - 'We talk about health all the time. 
Yet for the most part the only result is more people with imaginary illness.'
Options A, B, and C are incorrect because the right answer is Option D.
 

Test: Reading Comprehension - 1 - Question 14

The passage tells us

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This line describes "The healthy man should not be wasting time talking about health: he should be using health for work" what healthy man should or should not do.

Test: Reading Comprehension - 1 - Question 15

A healthy man should be concerned with

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Refer to, “The healthy man should not be wasting any time talking about health, he should be using health for work, the work he does and the work that good health makes possible.

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