Multiple choice

Directions: The short passage below is followed by a question based on its content. Answer the question on the basis of what is stated or implied in the passage.

Whatever is, is in some sense the seed of what is to emerge from it… To be in process of change is not an evil, any more than to be the product of change is a good… Time is a river, the resistless flow of all created things. One thing no sooner comes in sight than it is hurried past and another is borne along, only to be swept away in its turn…What follows is ever closely linked to what precedes; it is not a procession of isolated events, merely obeying the laws of sequence, but a rational continuity. Moreover, just as things already in existence are all harmoniously coordinated, things in the act of coming into existence exhibit the same marvel of concatenation, rather than simply the bare fact of succession.

What is the theme of the passage?

  1. Nature's highest happiness lies in changing the things that are and forming new things after their kind.

  2. The change is of the same order and no less necessary to Nature.

  3. Whatever the world may say or do, my part is to keep myself good and also keep my colour true.

  4. Change is not an evil process.
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A Correct answer
Explanation

“Change” is the main idea of this passage and option (1) states the essence of this passage. Hence, (1) is the answer.

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