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Directions (Q. Nos. 71 to 95) : Read the passage given below and answer the questions that follow. The need for surgical operation, especially an emergency operation, almost always comes as a severe shock to the patient and his family. Despite modern advances, most people still have an irrational fear of hospitals and anaesthetics. Patients do not often believe they really need surgery— cutting into a part of the body as opposed to treatment with drugs. In the early years of this century, there was little specialization in surgery. A good surgeon was capable of performing almost every operation that had been devised up to that time. Today the situation is different. Operations are now being carried out that were not even dreamed of fifteen years ago. The heart can be safely opened and its valves repaired. Clogged blood vessels can be cleaned out and broken ones mended or replaced. A lung, the whole stomach, or even part of the brain can be removed and still permit the patient to live a comfortable and satisfactory life. However, not every surgeon wants to, or is qualified to, carry out every type of modern operation. Open-heart surgery has been possible

• A. since the invention of valves
• B. only in the last fifty years
• C. from prehistoric times
• D. More than one of the above
• E. None of the above

Answer 1

Answer: (E)

उपरोक्त Passage के sense के अनुसार दिये गये Question के लिये विकल्प (a),(b), (c), (d) उपयुक्त नही है। "The heart can be safely opened and its values repaired. Clogged blood vessels can be cleaned out and broken ones mended or replaced." अत: विकल्प (e) 'None of the above' correct answer है।