Passage

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When I was growing up, my father said something to me I will never forget, "Son when you were born, you cried while the world rejoiced. Live your life in such a way that when you die the world cries while you rejoice". We live in an age when we have forgotten what life is all about. We can easily put a person on the Moon, but we have trouble walking across the street to meet a new neighbour. We can fire a missile across the world with pinpoint accuracy, but we have trouble keeping a date with our children to go to the library. We have e-mail, fax machines and digital phones so that we can stay connected and yet we live in a time where human beings have never been less connected. We have lost touch with our humanity. We have lost touch with our purpose. We have lost sight of the things that matter the most.

When did the father give the precious advice to his son ?

When he was a toddler

When he was growing up

When he was a grown-up man

When he was married

✅ Correct Option: 2

The first line of the passage reads, 'When I was growing up, my father said something to me I will never forget.' So the advice was given while the narrator was growing up.

Question 1

What does the line, "live your life in such a way that when you die the world cries while you rejoice" indicate about the kind of life that the father wanted his son to live ?

Question 2

Select the correct answer from the options given below and complete the sentence.

The reason for being less connected is that we _____ .

Question 4

According to the passage, what have we forgotten in our life ?

Question 5

Select the correct answer from the options given below and complete the sentence.

"But we have trouble walking across the street to meet a new neighbour," indicates our _____ .

Question 6

Why does the writer derive that we have lost touch with our humanity ?

When did the father give the precious advice to his son ?

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