A suitable title — Reading Comprehension Aptitude Question
A suitable title: Antibiotic resistance is not a future risk but a present one. Answer and worked solution on CodeKairo.
- Topic: Reading Comprehension
- Section: Verbal Ability
- Difficulty: Medium
- Time target: 90 seconds
Question
Antibiotic resistance is not a future risk but a present one. Every course of antibiotics kills the susceptible bacteria and leaves the resistant to multiply, so resistance is the predictable result of use rather than of misuse alone. Misuse merely accelerates it. This is why the response has two halves that are often confused: using existing drugs more sparingly buys time, but only new classes of drug can replace what is being lost.
Which is the most suitable title for the passage?
Options
- The Dangers of Hospital Infections
- Why Resistance Is Built Into Antibiotic Use
- A History of Antibiotics
- How to Prescribe Medicines
Show the answer and the worked solution
Correct answer: B. Why Resistance Is Built Into Antibiotic Use
Worked solution
- The passage's organising idea is that resistance follows from use, not merely misuse.
- 'Why Resistance Is Built Into Antibiotic Use' covers that whole argument.
- The others name topics the passage does not treat.
Answer: Why Resistance Is Built Into Antibiotic Use.
The idea
A title must be as broad as the passage and no broader. Reject titles that fit only one sentence or promise material that never appears.
Shortcut. The passage's key phrase is 'the predictable result of use', so the title must mention resistance. Only one option names resistance at all; the other three are about infections, history or prescribing.
Common trap. "How to Prescribe Medicines" — the advice to use drugs 'more sparingly' touches on prescribing, but the passage gives no guidance on how to prescribe, and the title ignores resistance entirely.