THEA Reading Comprehension Practice Questions  Read the
following passage, and then answer the questions that follow.
How a man uses money - makes it, saves it, and spends it - is
perhaps one of the best tests of practical wisdom. Although
money ought by no means to be regarded as a chief end of man's
life, neither is it a trifling matter, to be held in philosophic
contempt, representing as it does to so large an extent, the
means of physical comfort and social well-being. Indeed, some of
the finest qualities of human nature are intimately related to
the right use of money; such as generosity, honesty, justice,
and self- sacrifice; as well as the practical virtues of economy
and providence. On the other hand, there are their counterparts
of avarice, fraud, injustice, and selfishness, as displayed by
the inordinate lovers of gain; and the vices of thriftlessness,
extravagance, and improvidence, on the part of those who misuse
and abuse the means entrusted to them. "So that," as is wisely
observed by Henry Tayl