Comprehension Quiz
COMPREHENSION
A few guidlines :
- Read the given passage hurriedly (keeping in mind that you have a very limited time at your disposal) to find out the subject matter.
- Read the questions carefully.
- Read the passage again keeping in mind the questions that you have to answer.
- Mark the most appropriate choice.
PASSAGE
The whole conception of 'Sin' is one which I find very puzzling, doubtless owing to my sinful nature. If "Sin" consisted of causing needless suffering, I could understand; but on the contrary, sin often consists of avoiding needless suffering. Some years ago, in the English House of Lords, a Bill was introduced to legalise euthanasia in cases of patients suffering from painful and incurable diseases.
The consent of the patient was necessary, along with several medical certificates. But the late Arcbishop of Canterbury, the English official expert on sin, explained the erroreousness of such a view.
The consent of the patient turned euthanasia into suicide, and suicide is sin. Their lordships listened to the voice of authority, and rejected the bill. Thus, victims of cancer had to endure months of wholly useless agony, unless their doctors were sufficiently humane to risk a charge of murder.
The whole concept of sin is to the author
According to the author, sin often consists of
Euthanasia was to be legalized in cases of/where
The consent of the patient was
The Archbishop thought that the consent of the patient turned
