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. The work does the work that makes good health possible.
The passage suggests that
- A.
health is an end in itself
- B.
health is blessing
- C.
health is only means to an end
- D.
we should not talk about health
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Correct answer: C
Solution: health is only means to an end
The passage states that a healthy person should not waste time talking about health but should use health for work: "the healthy man should not be wasting time talking about health: he should be using health for work. The work does the work that makes good health possible."
Key point: Health is presented as a means to enable effective work, not as an end in itself.
Supporting detail: The author criticizes excessive attention to health (e.g., media focus and imaginary illnesses), reinforcing that the proper role of health is to support work.
Therefore, the statement that best matches the passage's message is that health is only a means to an end (enabling work).