Reading Comprehension 3

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All who have gone before you have submitted to the stoke of death. All who come after you shall undergo the same
fate. The great and the good, the prince and the peasant, the renowned and the obscure travel alike the road which
leads to the grave. At the moment when you expire thousands throughout the world shall with you, be yielding
up their breath. Can that be held to be a great calamity which is common to you with everything that lives on the
Earth, which is an event as much according to the course of the nature, as it is that leaves shall fall in autumn or that
ant, fruit should drop from the tree when it is fully ripe.

The author compares death with the fall of the ripe fruit from a tree to show that death

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occurs in nature also

is a kind of fall from a great height

gives freedom from the ordeals of life

occurs with the achievement of fullness

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Which one of the following sentences shows thatdeath is a great leveller?

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All who come after you shall undergo the same fate

The great and the good, the prince and the peasant, the renowned and the obscure travel alike the road which leads to the grave

At the moment when you expire, thousands throughout the world shall with you, be yielding up their breath

All who have gone before you have submitted to the stroke of death

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Death is a natural phenomenon because

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the moment you die, thousands of people all over the world die with you

may people have died in the past

it is as natural as the fall of leaves of fruits from the trees

the great and the good, the prince and the peasant the renowned and the obscure, all die

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