14. Investigate the difference between the following: victim, prey, casualty, sacrifice

15. Choose a suitable word among: after investigating the difference between them.

1. The incompetence of the driver led to a terrible crash: but though the bus itself was severely damaged, there were luckily no … . 2. Poor Edith reminded her son in vain of the …she had made to give him a good education, but he ignored her appeals completely. 3. The new fly-overs have led to a further fall in number of road … . 4. Thousands of people were … of the terrible earthquake. The total number of … exceeded anything ever recorded previously. 5. In Madrid the police charged a peaceful demonstration of 1500 bus-workers, who were demanding better pay, and arrested them in large numbers; the … were detained in prison for months without trial. 6. The Japanese people will never forget the … of the first atom bombs, nor will they forgive the perpetrators of the crime. 7. No working man or woman in this chemical works can help being a … to gnawing anxiety about the future. 8. The tyrant fell a … to his own overweening ambitions. 9. Androcles was abandoned in a wood in the expectations that he would fall a … to the wild beasts.

Myths and legends

Myths and legends number among the most creative and abundant contributions of religion to the history of human culture. They inspire artists, dramatists, clerics, and others. Moreover, the content of the legends and myths themselves has contributed directly to theories about religion, society, politics, art, astronomy, economics, music, and history.

Adam and Eve

In the Judeo-Christian and Islamic traditions, the original human couple, parents of the human race are Adam and Eve. In the Bible, God on the sixth day of Creation created all the living creatures and, "in his own image," man both "male and female." God then blessed the couple, told them to be "fruitful and multiply," and gave them dominion over all other living things.

God gave Adam the primeval Garden of Eden to tend but, on penalty of death, commanded him not to eat of the fruit of the "tree of knowledge of good and evil." Subsequently, so that Adam would not be alone, God created other animals but finding these insufficient, put Adam to sleep, took from him a rib, and created a new companion, Eve. The two were persons of innocence until Eve yielded to the temptations of the evil serpent and Adam joined her in eating the forbidden fruit, whereupon they both recognized their nakedness and donned fig leaves as garments. Immediately, God recognized their transgression and proclaimed their punishments--for the woman, pain in childbirth and subordination to man, and, for the man, relegation to an accursed ground with which he must toil and sweat for his subsistence. Their first children were Cain and Abel. Abel, the keeper of sheep, was highly regarded by God and was killed by Cain out of envy.

Eve eventually bore 20 sets of twins, and Adam had 40,000 offspring before he died.