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    Read the passage given below and answer the questions that follow by choosing the answers from the given options.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 (5) Religion is based, I think, primarily and mainly upon fear. It is partly the terror of the unknown and partly, as I have said, the wish to feel that you have a kind of elder brother who will stand by you in all your troubles and disputes. Fear is the basis of the whole thing-fear of the mysterious, fear of defeat, fear of death. Fear is the parent of cruelty and therefore it is no wonder that cruelty and religion have gone hand in hand. It is because fear is at the basis of these two things. In this world we can now begin a little to understand things and a little to master them by help of science, which has forced its way step by step against religion and against the opposition of all the old precepts. Science can help us to get over this craven fear in which mankind has lived for so many generations. Science can teach us and I think our own heart can teach us, no longer to look around for imaginary supports, no longer to invent allies in the sky, but rather to look for our own efforts here below to make this world a fit place to live in instead of the sort of place that the churches in all these centuries have made it. Questions (a) Religion, according to the passage is based...... (i) mainly upon cruelty (ii) primarily upon mystery (iii) primarily and mainly upon defeat (iv) upon fear of mystery, defeat and death   (b) Fear is at the basis of......... (i) terror and defeat    (ii) troubles and disputes (iii) cruelty and religion (iv) unknown and mystery   (c) Science has helped people......... (i) to conquer rule of religion (ii) not to depend on magic (iii) to give up strange beliefs (iv) to understand things and master them   (d) Science teaches us......... (i) to believe in old precepts (ii) to believe in our own efforts rather than religion (iii) to look for imaginary support (iv) to make churches better places to live in   (e) Religion and science......... (i) go together         (ii) are alike (iii) mean the same     (iv) do not go together  

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    (a) (iv) upon fear of mystery, defeat and death (b) (iii) cruelty and religion (c) (iv) to understand things and master them (d) (ii) to believe in our own efforts rather than religion (e) (iv) do not go together