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.
According to the passage, what have we forgotten in our life ?
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 2
The correct answer is Option (2) → What life is all about?
The passage says in so many words: "We live in an age when we have forgotten what life is all about."
Why the Other Options are Incorrect?
Option 1: What is death? — Incorrect. Wrong link: Death is mentioned only in the father's advice; the passage does not say we have forgotten what death is.
Option 3: What should we do to meet our friends? — Incorrect. Misread: the passage talks of trouble meeting a new neighbour, not of forgetting how to meet friends.
Option 4: What rules our life? — Incorrect. Not mentioned: nothing in the passage refers to what rules or controls our life.