Read the following passage and tick the right option:
The greatest enemy of mankind, as
people have discovered, is not science, but war. Science merely reflects the
prevailing social forces. It is found that, when there is peace, science is
constructive, when there is war; science is preserved to destructive ends. The weapon
which science gives us to not necessarily causes war; they make war increasing
terrible. Till now, it has brought to the doorstep of doom. Our main problem,
therefore, is not to curb science, but to stop war-to substitute law for force,
and international government for anarchy in the relation of one nation with
another. That is job in which everybody must participate, including the
scientist. But the bombing of Hiroshima suddenly woke up to the fact we have
very little time. The hour is late and our work has scarcely begun. Now we are
face to face with an urgent questions- “can education and tolerance, understand
and creative intelligence run fast enough to keep us abreast with our own
mounting capacity to destroy?” that is the question which we shall have to
answer one way or the other in this generation. Science must help us in
arriving at the answer, but main decision lies within ourselves.
1. According
to the writer, the real enemy of mankind is not science but war, because
a) Science
merely invents the weapons with war is fought
b) Science
during war is destructive
c) The weapons
that science invents necessarily leads to war
d) The weapons
invented by science do not cause war, though these aer more destructive
2. According
to the writer, the main problem we are faced with is to
a) Stop
science from reflecting social forces.
b) Stop
scientific activities everywhere
c) Abolish war
d) Prevent
scientists from participating in destructive activities
3. The
expression ‘bring to the doorstep of doom’ means
a) Carry close
to the death and destructive activities.
b) Lead to the
threshold of a new density
c) Include in
a ruinous activity
d) Introduce
to an unpredictable density
4. Which of
the following is opposite in meaning to the ‘anarchy’ in the middle of the
passage
a) Law and
order c) political
dominance
b) Economic
prosperity d) communal harmony
5. Which of
the following would be the most suitable title for the passage?
a) Science and
social force c)
science and world peace
b) Science and
the horrors of war d) science and
the new generation