[gautam_kanu]

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Naturally, we have come to take Google for granted. It is the standard starting point for students, teachers, and writers doing research. Anyone wanting to self-diagnose a mysterious medical condition, or check the spelling of a foreign leader’s name, or settle a bet about a sports statistic, will use Google. Prospective employers depend on it for background checks—as do prospective soul mates.
Choose one answer.
a. We google our friends, we google our families, we google ourselves.
b. Google has become the engine on which many commercial activities are running.
c. All our answers can be found on google if we search long enough.
d. In short, we’ve never met anybody who didn’t adopt Google as their search engine the day they discovered it.
e. The tremendous success of Google is due largely to one brilliant realization: that the actual information on the Internet is less important than the links that hold it together.


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So what if the kids aren’t reading properly (by their grandparents’ lights) or learning the more difficult skills of logic and analysis that come from that kind of reading? The answer is to downgrade verbal and numerical abilities to “lower-order skills” in comparison with the spatial, information-gathering, and pattern-recognition skills fostered by hours at the computer screen. That will doubtless be just the first step in a series of dumbings-down that will follow our youthful cybernauts all the way through high school, college, and graduate school until, in the future, everybody will come out at the end of the educational process with a Ph.D. in googling.


Choose one answer.
a. The only loser in this process would be the cultural value we associate with education.
b. Would these youths be less capable in the job market than their predecessors who studies the traditional way?
c. Why should we necessarily suppose that they need anything more?
d. How do we care if this shocks our grandparents?
e. In today's impatient world, the skills which matters are not necessarily the ones which mattered ten years ago.

Puys please post some explanations here. I always get questions from this source wrong. and i even got this whole set wrong.

[subash_r]

Hey..can you please explain your reasoning behind the 8th question.. i am a bit confused with the official explanation ... :( :(

[subash_r]

Originally Posted by gautam_kanu

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1.A
2.B

I would give my reasoning if the answers are correct

[Indhira]

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1. A
2. C

[agarwal_anshul]

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1.d
2.a

[mahi101987]

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1 d. In short, we’ve never met anybody who didn’t adopt Google as their search engine the day they discovered it.

My View... the whole passage tells us about how google affected people form different walks of life from research scholar to business man so i think option D concludes the passage well


2 a. The only loser in this process would be the cultural value we associate with education.

My View... the author's tone is sarcastic throughout this passage
so i think the author suggests the impact of googling as his final statement

so i would go for option A

[prateek7563]

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Naturally, we have come to take Google for granted. It is the standard starting point for students, teachers, and writers doing research. Anyone .................

c. All our answers can be found on google if we search long enough.

i think the passage says about getting all our answsers to any questions. so option c is according to my perspective.


2. So what if the kids aren’t reading properly (by their grandparents’ lights) or learning the more difficult skills of logic and analysis that come from ..................


c. Why should we necessarily suppose that they need anything more?

[gautam_kanu]

Originally Posted by subash_r

Hey..can you please explain your reasoning behind the 8th question.. i am a bit confused with the official explanation ... :( :(

Men of inventive temperament - Victor Hugo, for instance, in whom, as in Michelangelo, people have for the most part been attracted or repelled by the strength, while few have understood his sweetness - have sometimes relieved conceptions of merely moral or spiritual greatness, but with little aesthetic charm of their own, by lovely accidents or accessories, like the butterfly which alights on the blood-stained barricade in Les Miserable, or those sea-birds for whom the monstrous Gilliatt comes to be as some wild natural thing, so that they are no longer afraid of him, in Les Travailleurs de la Mer. But the austere genius of Michelangelo will not depend for its sweetness on any mere accessories like these.

B)His genius is in harmony with itself; and just as in the products of his art we find resources of exceeding strength, so in his own story also, bitter as the ordinary sense of it may be, there are select pages shut in among the rest - pages one might easily turn over too lightly, but which yet sweeten the whole volume.
C)The world of natural things has almost no existence for him; "When one speaks of him," says Grimm, "woods, clouds, seas, and mountains disappear, and only what is formed by the spirit of man remains behind".

EXPLANATION:-

Here the main fight is betwen B and C. The passage says that victor Hugo usses accesorries for sweetness but scuh was the geniusness of Michaelangelo that he did not need any accesorries to create sweetness. Naturally the next sentence will be one where the author speaks about Michelangelo'c greatness. Both B and C say that. But B does not say anything about the accesorries but instead diverts to his life after speaking of his greatness. But C says how accessories have no use for him and then he says about his greatness. So C is a better choice than B

[gautam_kanu]

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Although i could not get the logic behind them. Can anyone, who has got them correct, explain the reasoning behind the solution.

[prateek7563]

i just got the second one right!!!!