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Read the passages carefully and choose the best answer to each question out of the four alternatives.                                                                           PASSAGE      Faith in progress is deep within our culture. We have been taught to believe that our lives are better than the lives of those who came before us. The ideology of modern economics suggests that material progress has yielded enhanced satisfaction and well-being. But much or our confidence about our lives are easier than those of earlier generations. The lives of the so-called primitive peoples are though to be harsh-their existence dominated by the ‘incessant quest for food’. In fact, primitives did very little work. By contemporary standards we’d have to judge them very lazy.      The key to understanding why these ‘stone-age people’ failed to act like us – increasing their work effort to get more things-is that they had limited desires. In the race between wanting and having, they had kept their wanting low-and, in this way ensured their own kind of satisfaction. They were materially poor by contemporary standards, but in at least one dimension-time-we have to count them richer.
What is the basis for progress and growth according to the writer?
(a)	Faith in progress is deep-rooted in our culture.	(b)	We have been taught that progress in necessary.
(c)	Material progress has given us strength.	(d)	We have assumed to progress.
What does the writer attribute to modern economics?
(a)	That our lives are easier than before.	(b)	The progress is a natural process.
(c)	That material progress leads to higher satisfaction and well-being.	(d)	That it forces us to assume progress.
What is the writer’s image of the primitive people?
(a)	Their life was harsh.	(b)	They did not work.
(c)	They were lazy.	(d)	Search for food was their primary focus in life.
What is the key to understanding the primitive people’s behaviour according to the passage?
(a)	They had no desires.	(b)	They had everything they needed.
(c)	They had limited desires.	(d)	They kept their wants high.
How does the writer appreciate the primitives?
(a)	They have a low degree of wants.	(b)	They are the masters of their time owing to their contentedness.
(c)	They are materially poor.	(d)	They are highly satisfied.