Multiple choice

What is the theme of the passage?

Directions: Answer the question based on the following passage.

The ancients never believed in the noblest and most ennobling ideal of modern science –– that man can change and improve nature. The abolition of disease; the curtailment of labour; the suppression of physical pain; the conquest of distance, planetary and interplanetary; penetration of the heights and the depths, the deserts and the poles; interrogation of nature far beyond the limits of our own senses and the construction of machinery to continue that questioning and then change the answers into acts –– these magnificent achievements have given modern man a new freedom which raises him higher above the animals, and allows him, with justice, to boast of being wiser than his ancestors.

  1. Man has made great progress in the field of sciences.

  2. Ancients were not as wise as present day man.

  3. Modern science has enabled man to change.

  4. What is modern is always better than what was past.

  5. Our ancestors had always been against the idea of changing themselves.
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D Correct answer
Explanation

This passage mentions the achievements a modern man has made over the time but at the same time it also emphasizes that this has made him wiser than his ancestors. Therefore, it draws the comparison, which is explicit from option (4). Hence, (4) is the answer.

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