Question 24
Instruction: Read the passage below and answer the questions that follows
The earthly paradise of Bali and of the South Sea Islands and the gentle, non-acquisitive civilization of Burma have been aptly described and romanticized. But perhaps the most remarkable and least known of these earthly paradises is the small kingdom of Hunza in the Himalayas. A fair-skinned population of 18,000 they live in a fertile and almost inaccessible valley not far from the Sinkiany border 8,000 feet up. A legend has it that they are the descendants of three deserters from the army of Alexander the great; who settled here with Persian wives which makes one to believe that maybe Pacifism may be hereditary because this people had no war in 2,000 years. They have no money, no crime and no diseases, they rarely die before ninety. Their psychosomatic control is almost unbelievable, childbirth is painless and a toothache a joke; they keep their number stationary without contraceptives and without abortion by sheer abstinence. Their diets which consist mostly of apricots and vegetables may have something to do with their unshakeable serenity.
The earthly paradise of Bali and of the South Sea Islands and the gentle, non-acquisitive civilization of Burma have been aptly described and romanticized. But perhaps the most remarkable and least known of these earthly paradises is the small kingdom of Hunza in the Himalayas. A fair-skinned population of 18,000 they live in a fertile and almost inaccessible valley not far from the Sinkiany border 8,000 feet up. A legend has it that they are the descendants of three deserters from the army of Alexander the great; who settled here with Persian wives which makes one to believe that maybe Pacifism may be hereditary because this people had no war in 2,000 years. They have no money, no crime and no diseases, they rarely die before ninety. Their psychosomatic control is almost unbelievable, childbirth is painless and a toothache a joke; they keep their number stationary without contraceptives and without abortion by sheer abstinence. Their diets which consist mostly of apricots and vegetables may have something to do with their unshakeable serenity.
There are ----- earthly paradises described in the passage
Objective