Read the passage and answer the questions given below based on the information…
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Read the passage and answer the questions given below based on the information from the passage.
In the world today we make health and end in itself. We have forgotten that health is really means to enable a person to do his work and do it well. A lot of modern medicine and this includes many patients as well as many physicians pay very little attention to health but very much attention to those who imagine that they are ill. Our great concern with health is shown by the medical columns in newspapers. The health articles in popular magazines and the popularity of television programmers and all those books on medicine. We talk about health all the time. Yet for the most part the only result is more people with imaginary illness. The healthy man should not be wasting time talking about health: he should be using health for work. It is the work that makes good health possible.
A healthy man should be concerned with
- A.
his work which good health makes possible
- B.
looking after his health
- C.
his health which makes work possible
- D.
talking about health
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Correct answer: A
A literal-comprehension question is answered by finding the option that directly restates a claim the passage makes explicitly — not one that names the wrong thing as the object of concern, or merely repeats a topic the passage mentions only to dismiss.
The passage states that health exists to enable a person to do his work well, not to be pursued as an end in itself, and gives the direct instruction that a healthy man should not waste time talking about health but should use his health for work. This option names ‘his work’ as the object of concern, described exactly as the passage frames it — something good health makes possible.
‘looking after his health’ makes ongoing self-care of health the pursuit itself — exactly the ‘end in itself’ framing the passage opens by criticizing.
‘his health which makes work possible’ makes health itself the object of concern — precisely the same ‘treating health as an end in itself’ error the passage opens by criticizing.
‘talking about health’ restates the specific habit the passage explicitly calls a waste of time.
Therefore, the healthy man should be concerned with his work, which good health makes possible.