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The casual horrors and real disasters are thrown at newspaper reader without discrimination. In the contemporary arrangements for circulating the news, an important element, evaluation is always weak and often wanting entirely. There is no point anywhere along the line somewhere someone put his foot down for certain and says, "This is important and that does not amount to row of beans; deserves no ones attention, and should travel the wires no farther". The junk is dressed up to look as meaningful as the real news.

37851.Evaluation of news would imply
less dependence on modern systems of communication
more careful analysis of each news story and its value
separating beans from junk
discriminating horrors from disasters
37852.The writer of the above passage
seems to be happy with the contemporary arrangements for circulating news
is shocked by the casual stories about horrors and disasters reported in the newspapers
wants better evaluation of news before publication
wants to put his foot down on news stories
37853.In the above passage, the phrase "amounts to a row of beans" means that the news
is weak and often wanting entirely
deserves no ones attention
should travel the wires
is junk dressed up as real news
37854.Newspapers lack a sense of discrimination because
they do not separate the real news from mere sensationalism
they have to accept whatever is received on the wires
limited manpower makes serious evolution impossible
people dont see the difference between junk and real news
37855.The passage implies that
there has to be censorship on newspapers
there is no point in having censorship
newspapers always dress up junk to look meaningful
one has to be strict in selecting news items

The world dismisses curiosity by calling it idle or mere idle curiosity even though curious persons are seldom idle.Parents do their best to extinguish curiosity in their children because it makes life difficult to be faced everyday with a string of unanswerable questions about what makes fire hot or why grass grows. Children whose curiosity survives parental discipline are invited to join our university. With the university, they go on asking their questions and trying to find the answers. In the eyes of a scholar, that is what a university for. some of the questions which the scholars ask seem to the world to be scarcely worth asking, let alone answering. they asked questions too minute and specialised for you and me to understand without years of explanation. If the world inquires of one of them why he wants to know the answer to a particular question he may say especially if he is a scientist, that the answer will in some obscure way make possible a new machine or weapon or gadget. He talks that way because he knows that the world understands and respects utility. But to you who are now part of the university, he will say that he wants to know the answer simply because he does not know it, the way the mountain climber wants to climb a mountain, simply because it is there. Similarly a historian asked by an outsider why he studies history may come out with the argument that he has learnt to respect to report on such occasions, something about knowledge of the past making it possible to understand the present and mould the future. But if you really want to know why a historian studies the past, the answer is much simpler, something happened and he would like to know what. All this does not mean that the answers which scholars to find to their enormous consequences but these seldom form the reason for asking the question or pursuing the answers. It is true that scholars can be put to work answering questions for sake of the consequences as thousands are working now, for example, in search of a cure for cancer. But this is not the primary scholars. For the consequences are usually subordinate to the satisfication of curiosity.

37856.Children whose curiosity survives parental discipline means
children retaining their curiosity in spite of being discouraged by their parents
children pursuing their mental curiosity
childrens curiosity subdued due to parents intervention
children being disciplined by their parents
37857.According to their passage, the children make life difficult for their parents
by their ceaseless curiosity
by unceasing bombardment of questions
by asking irrelevant questions
by posing profound questions
37858.The common people consider some of the questions that the scholars ask unimportant
as they are too lazy and idle
as they are too modest
as its beyond their comprehension
as it is considered a waste of time
37859.A historian really studies the past
to comprehend the present and to reconstruct the future
to explain the present and plan the future
to understand the present and make fortune
to understand the present and mould the future
37860.According to their passage, parents do their best to discourage curiosity in their children
because they have no time
because they have no patience to answer them
because they feel that their children ask stupid questions continuously
because they are unable to answer all the questions
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