(Read the following passage carefully and answer the comprehension questions given below. Choose the correct answers from the alternatives given).
Helping others physically, by removing their physical needs, is indeed a good thing, but help is more substantial according as it is more far reaching because the need is greater. If a man’s wants can be removed for an hour; it is helping him indeed; if his wants can be removed for a year, it will be more help to him; but if his wants can be removed for ever, it is surely the greatest help that can be given to him. It is only with the knowledge of the spirit that the faculty of want is annihilated for ever; so helping a man spiritually is the best help that can be extended to him. He who gives spiritual knowledge is the greatest benefactor of mankind. A spiritually strong and sound man can be powerful in every other respect, if he so wishes. Until there is spiritual strength in man even physical needs cannot be well satisfied. Next to spiritual comes intellectual help. The gift of knowledge is a far higher gift than that of food and clothes; it is even higher than giving life to a man, because the real life of man consists of knowledge. Ignorance is death, knowledge is life. Next comes, of course, physical help. Therefore we must always strive not to commit the mistake of thinking that physical help is the only kind of help that can be given. It is the least important, because it can never bring permanent satisfaction. Thus help which tends to make us strong spiritually is of the highest type, next comes intellectual help, and after that physical help.
