Direction: Read the following passage carefully and answer the question. "Science cannot reduce the magic of a sunset to arithmetic, nor can it express friendship with a formula" observed the…
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Direction: Read the following passage carefully and answer the question.
"Science cannot reduce the magic of a sunset to arithmetic, nor can it express friendship with a formula" observed the eminent medical researcher, Dr. Lous Orr. He added, "also beyond science's mastery of nature are love and laughter, pain and loneliness and insights into truth and beauty". This distancing of science from the human condition perhaps explains why most foreign tourists visiting Britain flock predictably to see the hallowed homes of playwrights, writers and poets, but choose to ignore the habitations where its eminent scientists lived and worked.
"Science cannot reduce the magic of a sunset to arithmetic, nor can it express friendship with a formula" observed the eminent medical researcher, Dr. Lous Orr. He added, "also beyond science's mastery of nature are love and laughter, pain and loneliness and insights into truth and beauty". This distancing of science from the human condition perhaps explains why most foreign tourists visiting Britain flock predictably to see the hallowed homes of playwrights, writers and poets, but choose to ignore the habitations where its eminent scientists lived and worked.
The word magic refers to
- Evening dusk
- The sunrise
- Solar and lunar eclipse
- Setting of the sun, with all its beauty
Answer and explanation
Correct answer: D - Setting of the sun, with all its beauty
The phrase is 'the magic of a sunset', so 'magic' refers to the setting of the sun with all its beauty. The passage speaks of the sunset, not the sunrise, an eclipse or the dusk that follows.
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