Comprehension

After reading the given TEXT answer the 4 questions based on the text by choosing the appropriate option.
TEXT 
Even though there have been truly significant advances in modern medicine, health problems still abound and cause untold misery. Although heart disease and cancer were rare at the beginning of the 20th century, today these two diseases strike with increasing frequency, in spite of billions of dollars in research to combat them, and in spite of tremendous advances in diagnostic and surgical techniques. 
In America, one person in three suffers from allergies, one in ten has ulcers and one in five is mentally ill. Every year, a quarter of a million infants are born with a birth defect and undergo expensive surgery, or are hidden away in institutions. Other degenerative diseases such as arthritis, multiple sclerosis, diabetes, and chronic fatigue afflict a significant majority of Americans. Further learning disabilities make life miserable for seven million young people and their parents. These diseases were extremely rare only a generation or two ago. Today, chronic illness afflicts nearly half of all Americans and causes three out of four deaths in the United States. 

Question: 1

The passage stresses that ill-health gives rise to a great deal of misery____.

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  • especially in the case of chronic illness
  • which is largely associated with pain
  • which is not confined to the patient alone
  • especially when the symptoms are severe
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The Correct Option is A

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The correct option is (A): especially in the case of chronic illness
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Question: 2

According to the passage, cancer and heart diseases are on the increase _____.

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  • and most of the cures have serious side-effects
  • due to problems of diagnosis which for the present seem insurmountable
  • since research so far carried out in these fields has been quite inadequate
  • even though
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The Correct Option is D

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The correct option is (D): even though
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Question: 3

One point that is stressed in the passage about the American people is that ____.

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  • there is an alarming lack of communication between parents and their children
  • they are less liable to degenerative diseases than most other peoples
  • the rate of infant mortality among them is rising rapidly
  • in one way or another, a very large proportion of them have health problem
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The Correct Option is D

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The correct option is (D): in one way or another, a very large proportion of them have health problem
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Question: 4

The writer of this passage draws our attention to____.

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  • the possibility that it is mental rather than physical health that is going to be the major problem of the future in the US
  • the fact that it is young people who are the most affected by degenerative diseases
  • the commonly-held view that cancer will, in a few decades, be completely eradicated
  • the paradox that medicine today has improved remarkably, but more people are suffering from various diseases
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The Correct Option is D

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The correct option is (D): the paradox that medicine today has improved remarkably, but more people are suffering from various diseases
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