Question

- Read the passage given below carefully.

Whether work should be placed among the causes of happiness or among the causes of

unhappiness may perhaps be regarded as a doubtful question. There is certainly much work

which is exceedingly irksome and excess of work is always very painful. However, work is

not to most people less painful than idleness. Most of the work that most people have to do

is not in itself interesting, but even such work has certain great advantages. To begin with, it

fills a good hours of the day without the need of deciding what one shall do.

Most people, when they are left free to fill their own time according to their own choice are

at a loss to think of anything sufficiently pleasant to be worth doing. And whatever they

decide on, they are troubled by the feeling that something else would have been pleasanter.

To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilisation and at present very

few people have reached this level. Moreover, the exercise of choice is in itself tiresome.

Except to people with unusual initiative it is positively agreeable to be told what to do at

each hour of the day, provided the orders are not too unpleasant. Most of the idle rich suffer

unspeakable boredom as the price of their freedom from drudgery. At times, they may find

relief by hunting big game in Africa or by flying round the world, but the number of such

sensations is limited, especially after youth is past. Accordingly, the more intelligent rich

men work nearly as hard as if they were poor.

Work, therefore is desirable first and foremost as a preventive of boredom, for the boredom

that a man feels when he is doing something out of compulsion, though uninteresting of

work is as boring as having nothing to do. With this advantage of work another is

associated, namely that it makes holidays much more delicious when theycome. The second

advantage of most paid work and some of unpaid work is that it gives chances of success

and opportunities for ambition. In most work, success is measured by income and while our

capitalistic society continues, this is inevitable. Howerer dull work may be, it becomes

bearable, if it is a means of building up a reputation. Continuity of purpose is one of the

most essential ingredients of happiness and that comes chiefly through work.

(a) Answer the following questions.

(i) What message is the passage trying to convey?

(ii) What advantages does work have?

(iii) What do the idle rich suffer from? Why?

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