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Direction: In the following questions, you have two brief passages with 5 questions in each passage. Read the passages carefully and choose the best answer to each question out of the four alternatives.

Passage-1

The third defect of our civilization is that it does not know what to do with its knowledge. Science has given up powers fit for the gods. yet we use them like small children. For example, we do not know how to manage our machines. Machines were made to be man's servants; yet he has grown so dependent on them that they are in a fair way to become his masters. Already most men spend most of their lives looking after and waiting upon machines. And the machines are very stem masters. They must be fed with coal, and given petrol to drink, and oil. To wash 'with, and they must be kept at the right temperature. And if they do not get their meals when they expect them, they grow' sulky and refuse to work, or burst with rage, and blow up, and spread ruin and destruction all around them. So we have to wait upon them very attentively and do all that we can to keep them, in a good temper. Already we find it difficult either to work or play without the machine, and a time may come when they rule us altogether, just as we rule animals.

And this brings me to the point at which I asked, "What do we do with all the time which the machines have saved for us, and the new energy that they have given us?" On the whole, it must be admitted, we do very little. For the most part we use our time and energy to make more and better machines: but more and better machines will only give us still more time and more energy, and what we do with them? The answer I think, is that we should try to become more civilized. For the machines themselves, and the power which machines have given us, are not civilization but aids to civilization.

 

How do we use the power given to us by Science?

A)  Intelligently                  

B)  Like small children

C)  Like machines  

D)  Like a scientist