Directions: In this section, you have a short passage. After the passage, you will find some items based on the passage. Read the passage carefully and answer the items based on it. You are required to select your answers based on the contents of the passage and the opinion of author only. We live in a time when globalisation is rapidly encompassing travel, information, trade and investment. The internet ties people together in ways unimagined a few years ago. The globalisation of health, however, remains an elusive goal, similar to the globalisation of economic well-being. Laurie Garrett, in The Coming Plague, describes an unwelcome form of globalisation: the globalisation of disease. Garrett examines the recent history of emerging diseases such as AIDS, Ebola, Hantavirus, Rift Valley Fever, Legionnaires' disease, and others. She also explains the resurgence of familiar diseases like tuberculosis, cholera, and pneumonia as a consequence of the widespread and unwise use of antibiotics. Many of the new diseases are clearly linked to changes in land use, which brings humans into close contacts with rodents or other animals that harbour viruses previously unknown to medicine and often deadly to humans. Resurgent diseases, by contrast, are a creation of our medical practice. By treating people with antibiotics without restraint, we unknowingly select strains that are immune to the antibiotics and that pass on their resistant genes to unrelated bacteria by way of plasmid transfer. The heroes of her book are the women and men on the frontlines of epidemiology. Garrett makes a plea for a greater commitment from our universities, medical schools, and government agencies to train workers who will be capable of recognizing new diseases and who will be able to move about equally well in the laboratory, the hospital and the field in pursuit of knowledge and public-health intervention around the world.
1. Globalization of the diseases
2. Elusive goal of globalization
3. History of fatal diseases
4. Selective use of antibiotics
Select the correct answer using the code given below :
Passage Analysis: The Unwelcome Globalization
The provided passage discusses various aspects of globalisation, touching upon travel, information, trade, and investment. It highlights how the internet connects people globally. However, it contrasts this with the challenges faced in achieving the globalisation of health and economic well-being, describing them as elusive goals.
The central focus of the question is identifying the 'unwelcome form of globalisation' as described by Laurie Garrett in her book, The Coming Plague. The passage explicitly states:
"Laurie Garrett, in The Coming Plague, describes an unwelcome form of globalisation: the globalisation of disease."
Evaluating the Options
Let's examine each option based on the passage's content:
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Option 1: Globalization of the diseases
This option directly corresponds to the explicit definition provided in the passage. The author identifies the spread of diseases across borders as the 'unwelcome form of globalisation'.
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Option 2: Elusive goal of globalization
The passage mentions that the "globalisation of health, however, remains an elusive goal". While true according to the text, this is not presented as the 'unwelcome form of globalisation'. It's a separate challenge related to health, not the specific unwelcome aspect.
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Option 3: History of fatal diseases
The passage does discuss the history of emerging diseases like AIDS and Ebola, and resurgent diseases like tuberculosis. However, the 'history' itself isn't labelled as the 'unwelcome form of globalisation', but rather the phenomenon of diseases spreading globally is.
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Option 4: Selective use of antibiotics
The passage explains that the "widespread and unwise use of antibiotics" contributes to the resurgence of familiar diseases by selecting resistant strains. This is described as a consequence or cause related to disease spread, but not the definition of the 'unwelcome form of globalisation' itself.
Based on the direct statement within the passage, the 'unwelcome form of globalisation' is the 'globalisation of disease'. Therefore, the option that accurately reflects this is Option 1.
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