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Direction: In the following questions, you have several brie f passages with some questions following each passage. Read the passages carefully and choose the best answer to each question out of the four alternatives.

Passage - II

Vacations were once the prerogative of the privileged few, even as late as the nineteenth century. Now they are considered the right of all, except for such unfortunate masses as in China, for whom life, except for sleep and brief periods of rest, is uninterrupted toil.

They are more necessary now than before because the average life is well rounded and has become increasingly departmentalized. The idea of vacations, as we conceive it must be incomprehensible to primitive people. Rest of some kind has of course always been a plan of the rhythm of human life, but earlier ages did not find it necessary to organise it in the way that modem man has done. Holidays, feast days, were sufficient. With modem man's increasing tensions, with the useless quality of so much of his work, this break in the year's routine became steadily more necessary. Vacations became necessary for the purpose of renewal and repair.

The contemporary attitude towards vacations is best expressed by which of the following proverbs?

A)  A penny saved is a penny earned

B) The devil finds work for idle hands

C) All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy

D) Many hand make light work