Question

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45 marks.
= 80
Section : A (Reading)
1. Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions that follow:
Look at the opposition between the pen and the sword. The sword can only destroy; ideas also can
destroy-
the ideas of Bolshevism destroyed Czarism; the ideas of Voltaire and Rousseau destroyed
the French aristocracy. But ideas can also build, whereas the sword can only destroy,
It is in fact the power of ideas which has brought us out of barbarism into such civilization as we
have been able to achieve. “In what”, asked Aristotle, "does man differ from the animal?" and
answered, “it is by virtue of reason.” The greatness of man consists in his thinking. The universe is
vast, and man is tiny, but man has one advantage over the universe. He knows it is vast and he is tiny,
but the universe does not.
In this sense, that it is to ideas and not to violence, to the pen and not to the sword, that man owes
whatever has distinguished him from animals, whatever has enabled him to rise above a purely savage
condition. For the pen is the vehicle of thought, and it is by thought that man is enabled to voyage
through the infinite in philosophy, to unlock the secrets of the universe, to create beauty and to commune
with God.
Questions:
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(b) Pick out the words from the passage that mean the following:
People of noble birth or rank
ii) Primitive condition
(c) Give the meaning of the words:
i) Virtue
ii) Savage
iii) Commune
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Answer 1

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