Directions: You have One passage with five questions following each passage. Read the passage carefully and choose the best answer to each question out of the four alternatives.

Power and possession have been central pursuits of modern civilisation for a long time. They blocked out or distorted other features of the western renaissance (revival) which promised so much for humanity. What people have been and are still being taught to prize are money, success, control over the lives of others, acquisition of more and more objects. Modern social, political, and economic systems, whether capitalist, fascist or communist, reject in their working the basic principle that the free and creative unfoldment of every man, woman and child is the true measure of the worth of any society. Such unfoldment requires understanding and imagination, integrity and compassion, cooperation among people and harmony between the human species and the rest of nature. Acquisitiveness and the pursuit of power have made the modern man an aggressor against everything that is non-human; an exploiter and oppressor of those who are poor, meek and unorganised; a pathological type which hates and distrusts the world and suffers from both acute loneliness and false pride.

Q:

According to the passage, why has modern man turned out as an enemy of everything that is nonhuman?

• 1
  Non-humans have refused co-operation to human beings.
• 2
  He hates and distrusts other human beings.
• 3
  He has been dominated by drives of acquisitiveness and power.
• 4
  He consciously practises spirit of co-operation.