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1) write a précis of the following passage. Add suitable title.
👉 Charlie Chaplin once said, "In this age of scientific inventions, we think too much, we feel to little". Science boosts up the morden craze for material prosperity. It has revolutionized our lives. It has made life more comfortable with various amenities. It is undoubtedly the driving force behind any human excellence. But it kills the soul of a man. Our skill and habits are changed by science. Excessive mechanization brings unhappiness because human faculties are slighted. A person starts reliving that machines will do all for him, and this tendency becomes fatal in this high-tech world. But none can doubt that science has helped us to discover the hidden truth in nature. Can we ever imagine the modern age without computers, lasers, antibiotics, biotechnology or different electronic gadgets ? That is why it is said that science gives knowledge and power but not wisdom.
Title : Impact of science on modern life
Science has revolutionized human life by making it comfortable with many amenities. Yet it has also tarnished human feeling and faculties by making man machanical and machine-dependent. Yet the huge contribution of science cannot be undermined as the provider of knowledge and power but not of the wisdom.
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👉 Among the misfortunes that trouble human beings, the loss of health is the most troublesome. A man cannot enjoy his wealth, his happiness or his relations when he is sick. If you can give sick man everything but leave him to his sufferings, he will feel that world is lost to him. Even when he is laid on a bad of reses, he groans in physical agony, and remains sleeps. On the contrary , a beggar who is healthy, can enjoy a sound sleep even lying on the bare ground. A man with good health can enjoy his food and choose his drink but a sick man cannot take a morsel out of fear that his health may deteriorate. In fact, a healthy man is always envied by a rich man with poor health. If a sick man is surrounded with the pomp of a king, if his chair be made his throne, if his crutch be his meanest servant. His great palace would not be able to provide him the comfort that a man with a sound health gets even if he lives in a hut with thatched roof.
Title : The worst human misfortune of ill health
Ill health is the worst human misfortune. An ill man can cannot enjoy his wealth, happiness, food, sleep or rest even on the bed of reses. Contrarily a healthy poor man can enjoy his food and sleep on the bare ground or inside a hut. An ill rich person
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