Directions: There are 10 blanks in the following passage.
For each numbered blank, there are 4 choices marked A, B, C and D. Choose
the best one and mark your answer on the ANSWER SHEET with a single line through
the center.
There is one fairly standard reason why some
thinkers regard the meaning-of-life question as being itself meaningless. They
argue (51) meaning is a matter of language, not objects. It
is a (52) of the way we talk about things, not a feature of
things themselves, (53) shape, weight or colour. A cabbage
or a computer is not meaningful in itself; it becomes (54)
only by being caught up in our conversation. On this theory, we can make life
(55) by our talk about it; but it cannot have a meaning in
itself, (56) than a cloud can. It would not (57)
sense, for example, to speak of a cloud as being true or false.
(58) , truth and falsehood are function of our human
judgments about clouds. However, there are problems with this argument,
(59) there are with most philosophical arguments. We shall
be (60) a few of them later
on.