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Directions: Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions given below it. Certain words have been printed in underline to help you locate them while answering some of the questions.We live in an age of instant images and memes when 10,000 copies of a picture can be flung around the world in seconds by sliding a finger half an inch across a phone screen. This would have been unbelievable 20 years ago and impossible even to imagine 20 years before that. Go back 1,000 years, and it would have been sorcery. But it is in the world of hand-copied manuscripts 1,000 years old or more than the digital revolution has had some of its most profound and unambiguously beneficial effects. What may have taken three years to write out can today be printed out in three seconds. There are now tens of thousands of once unique documents which have been digitized and placed online for anyone to access all around the world, and this is a vast, democratizing wonder.Take, for example, the Parker Library in Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, which contains the scholarly plunder of monasteries dissolved under Henry VIII during the Reformation and collected by Archbishop Matthew Parker. It has been digitized in a project with Stanford University, and this year the site was opened to all comers to browse after 10 years behind scholarly paywalls. What is astonishing is not just the texts themselves, but the pictures: the illuminations on some of the manuscripts show off the fertility and vividness of the medieval imagination.Digitized collections of these sorts cannot entirely substitute for real libraries. To touch with your own hand a parchment from a medieval monk is an experience no screen can offer, but it is one that must always be restricted to a lucky few. There are some things so old and fragile that even being looked at may damage them. The caves at Lascaux had to be closed to protect the paintings from the breath of tourists and replaced by a virtual display. Yet in some ways, these copies are better than the originals. Reproductions of a high enough quality make obvious detail that’s invisible to the native eye: Twitter is full of astonishing collections of medieval marginalia, some drawn at a scale that makes them easily overlooked. What’s more, digital collections can be gathered on one screen from across the globe. The International Dunhuang Project reunites on the screen tens of thousands of Buddhist scrolls and artifacts taken from an abandoned cave library in western China during the chaotic early years of the 20th century by western collectors. What is possible with this one collection should fairly soon be possible with all the scholarly digitized manuscripts of the world. The hope is to bring them under one system of classification so that they can quickly be searched and sorted no matter where they came from and where they now are stored.The world may always prefer cat gifs to codices, but the translation from parchment to pixels reminds us of the humanistic optimism with which the web came into the world and shows that much of it was not misplaced at all.Q. According to the passage, which of the following would be sorcery/witchery 1000 years ago?a)To search and sort the pictures, manuscripts etc. in a matter of seconds.b)To think that digital collections will entirely substitute the real libraries.c)To share a picture by just sliding a finger onto the screen.d)To get unrestricted access of monuments for research purposes.e)None of theseCorrect answer is option 'C'. Can you explain this answer? for Banking Exams 2024 is part of Banking Exams preparation. The Question and answers have been prepared according to the Banking Exams exam syllabus. Information about Directions: Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions given below it. Certain words have been printed in underline to help you locate them while answering some of the questions.We live in an age of instant images and memes when 10,000 copies of a picture can be flung around the world in seconds by sliding a finger half an inch across a phone screen. This would have been unbelievable 20 years ago and impossible even to imagine 20 years before that. Go back 1,000 years, and it would have been sorcery. But it is in the world of hand-copied manuscripts 1,000 years old or more than the digital revolution has had some of its most profound and unambiguously beneficial effects. What may have taken three years to write out can today be printed out in three seconds. There are now tens of thousands of once unique documents which have been digitized and placed online for anyone to access all around the world, and this is a vast, democratizing wonder.Take, for example, the Parker Library in Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, which contains the scholarly plunder of monasteries dissolved under Henry VIII during the Reformation and collected by Archbishop Matthew Parker. It has been digitized in a project with Stanford University, and this year the site was opened to all comers to browse after 10 years behind scholarly paywalls. What is astonishing is not just the texts themselves, but the pictures: the illuminations on some of the manuscripts show off the fertility and vividness of the medieval imagination.Digitized collections of these sorts cannot entirely substitute for real libraries. To touch with your own hand a parchment from a medieval monk is an experience no screen can offer, but it is one that must always be restricted to a lucky few. There are some things so old and fragile that even being looked at may damage them. The caves at Lascaux had to be closed to protect the paintings from the breath of tourists and replaced by a virtual display. Yet in some ways, these copies are better than the originals. Reproductions of a high enough quality make obvious detail that’s invisible to the native eye: Twitter is full of astonishing collections of medieval marginalia, some drawn at a scale that makes them easily overlooked. What’s more, digital collections can be gathered on one screen from across the globe. The International Dunhuang Project reunites on the screen tens of thousands of Buddhist scrolls and artifacts taken from an abandoned cave library in western China during the chaotic early years of the 20th century by western collectors. What is possible with this one collection should fairly soon be possible with all the scholarly digitized manuscripts of the world. The hope is to bring them under one system of classification so that they can quickly be searched and sorted no matter where they came from and where they now are stored.The world may always prefer cat gifs to codices, but the translation from parchment to pixels reminds us of the humanistic optimism with which the web came into the world and shows that much of it was not misplaced at all.Q. According to the passage, which of the following would be sorcery/witchery 1000 years ago?a)To search and sort the pictures, manuscripts etc. in a matter of seconds.b)To think that digital collections will entirely substitute the real libraries.c)To share a picture by just sliding a finger onto the screen.d)To get unrestricted access of monuments for research purposes.e)None of theseCorrect answer is option 'C'. Can you explain this answer? covers all topics & solutions for Banking Exams 2024 Exam. Find important definitions, questions, meanings, examples, exercises and tests below for Directions: Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions given below it. Certain words have been printed in underline to help you locate them while answering some of the questions.We live in an age of instant images and memes when 10,000 copies of a picture can be flung around the world in seconds by sliding a finger half an inch across a phone screen. This would have been unbelievable 20 years ago and impossible even to imagine 20 years before that. Go back 1,000 years, and it would have been sorcery. But it is in the world of hand-copied manuscripts 1,000 years old or more than the digital revolution has had some of its most profound and unambiguously beneficial effects. What may have taken three years to write out can today be printed out in three seconds. There are now tens of thousands of once unique documents which have been digitized and placed online for anyone to access all around the world, and this is a vast, democratizing wonder.Take, for example, the Parker Library in Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, which contains the scholarly plunder of monasteries dissolved under Henry VIII during the Reformation and collected by Archbishop Matthew Parker. It has been digitized in a project with Stanford University, and this year the site was opened to all comers to browse after 10 years behind scholarly paywalls. What is astonishing is not just the texts themselves, but the pictures: the illuminations on some of the manuscripts show off the fertility and vividness of the medieval imagination.Digitized collections of these sorts cannot entirely substitute for real libraries. To touch with your own hand a parchment from a medieval monk is an experience no screen can offer, but it is one that must always be restricted to a lucky few. There are some things so old and fragile that even being looked at may damage them. The caves at Lascaux had to be closed to protect the paintings from the breath of tourists and replaced by a virtual display. Yet in some ways, these copies are better than the originals. Reproductions of a high enough quality make obvious detail that’s invisible to the native eye: Twitter is full of astonishing collections of medieval marginalia, some drawn at a scale that makes them easily overlooked. What’s more, digital collections can be gathered on one screen from across the globe. The International Dunhuang Project reunites on the screen tens of thousands of Buddhist scrolls and artifacts taken from an abandoned cave library in western China during the chaotic early years of the 20th century by western collectors. What is possible with this one collection should fairly soon be possible with all the scholarly digitized manuscripts of the world. The hope is to bring them under one system of classification so that they can quickly be searched and sorted no matter where they came from and where they now are stored.The world may always prefer cat gifs to codices, but the translation from parchment to pixels reminds us of the humanistic optimism with which the web came into the world and shows that much of it was not misplaced at all.Q. According to the passage, which of the following would be sorcery/witchery 1000 years ago?a)To search and sort the pictures, manuscripts etc. in a matter of seconds.b)To think that digital collections will entirely substitute the real libraries.c)To share a picture by just sliding a finger onto the screen.d)To get unrestricted access of monuments for research purposes.e)None of theseCorrect answer is option 'C'. Can you explain this answer?.

Solutions for Directions: Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions given below it. Certain words have been printed in underline to help you locate them while answering some of the questions.We live in an age of instant images and memes when 10,000 copies of a picture can be flung around the world in seconds by sliding a finger half an inch across a phone screen. This would have been unbelievable 20 years ago and impossible even to imagine 20 years before that. Go back 1,000 years, and it would have been sorcery. But it is in the world of hand-copied manuscripts 1,000 years old or more than the digital revolution has had some of its most profound and unambiguously beneficial effects. What may have taken three years to write out can today be printed out in three seconds. There are now tens of thousands of once unique documents which have been digitized and placed online for anyone to access all around the world, and this is a vast, democratizing wonder.Take, for example, the Parker Library in Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, which contains the scholarly plunder of monasteries dissolved under Henry VIII during the Reformation and collected by Archbishop Matthew Parker. It has been digitized in a project with Stanford University, and this year the site was opened to all comers to browse after 10 years behind scholarly paywalls. What is astonishing is not just the texts themselves, but the pictures: the illuminations on some of the manuscripts show off the fertility and vividness of the medieval imagination.Digitized collections of these sorts cannot entirely substitute for real libraries. To touch with your own hand a parchment from a medieval monk is an experience no screen can offer, but it is one that must always be restricted to a lucky few. There are some things so old and fragile that even being looked at may damage them. The caves at Lascaux had to be closed to protect the paintings from the breath of tourists and replaced by a virtual display. Yet in some ways, these copies are better than the originals. Reproductions of a high enough quality make obvious detail that’s invisible to the native eye: Twitter is full of astonishing collections of medieval marginalia, some drawn at a scale that makes them easily overlooked. What’s more, digital collections can be gathered on one screen from across the globe. The International Dunhuang Project reunites on the screen tens of thousands of Buddhist scrolls and artifacts taken from an abandoned cave library in western China during the chaotic early years of the 20th century by western collectors. What is possible with this one collection should fairly soon be possible with all the scholarly digitized manuscripts of the world. The hope is to bring them under one system of classification so that they can quickly be searched and sorted no matter where they came from and where they now are stored.The world may always prefer cat gifs to codices, but the translation from parchment to pixels reminds us of the humanistic optimism with which the web came into the world and shows that much of it was not misplaced at all.Q. According to the passage, which of the following would be sorcery/witchery 1000 years ago?a)To search and sort the pictures, manuscripts etc. in a matter of seconds.b)To think that digital collections will entirely substitute the real libraries.c)To share a picture by just sliding a finger onto the screen.d)To get unrestricted access of monuments for research purposes.e)None of theseCorrect answer is option 'C'. Can you explain this answer? in English & in Hindi are available as part of our courses for Banking Exams. Download more important topics, notes, lectures and mock test series for Banking Exams Exam by signing up for free.

Here you can find the meaning of Directions: Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions given below it. Certain words have been printed in underline to help you locate them while answering some of the questions.We live in an age of instant images and memes when 10,000 copies of a picture can be flung around the world in seconds by sliding a finger half an inch across a phone screen. This would have been unbelievable 20 years ago and impossible even to imagine 20 years before that. Go back 1,000 years, and it would have been sorcery. But it is in the world of hand-copied manuscripts 1,000 years old or more than the digital revolution has had some of its most profound and unambiguously beneficial effects. What may have taken three years to write out can today be printed out in three seconds. There are now tens of thousands of once unique documents which have been digitized and placed online for anyone to access all around the world, and this is a vast, democratizing wonder.Take, for example, the Parker Library in Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, which contains the scholarly plunder of monasteries dissolved under Henry VIII during the Reformation and collected by Archbishop Matthew Parker. It has been digitized in a project with Stanford University, and this year the site was opened to all comers to browse after 10 years behind scholarly paywalls. What is astonishing is not just the texts themselves, but the pictures: the illuminations on some of the manuscripts show off the fertility and vividness of the medieval imagination.Digitized collections of these sorts cannot entirely substitute for real libraries. To touch with your own hand a parchment from a medieval monk is an experience no screen can offer, but it is one that must always be restricted to a lucky few. There are some things so old and fragile that even being looked at may damage them. The caves at Lascaux had to be closed to protect the paintings from the breath of tourists and replaced by a virtual display. Yet in some ways, these copies are better than the originals. Reproductions of a high enough quality make obvious detail that’s invisible to the native eye: Twitter is full of astonishing collections of medieval marginalia, some drawn at a scale that makes them easily overlooked. What’s more, digital collections can be gathered on one screen from across the globe. The International Dunhuang Project reunites on the screen tens of thousands of Buddhist scrolls and artifacts taken from an abandoned cave library in western China during the chaotic early years of the 20th century by western collectors. What is possible with this one collection should fairly soon be possible with all the scholarly digitized manuscripts of the world. The hope is to bring them under one system of classification so that they can quickly be searched and sorted no matter where they came from and where they now are stored.The world may always prefer cat gifs to codices, but the translation from parchment to pixels reminds us of the humanistic optimism with which the web came into the world and shows that much of it was not misplaced at all.Q. According to the passage, which of the following would be sorcery/witchery 1000 years ago?a)To search and sort the pictures, manuscripts etc. in a matter of seconds.b)To think that digital collections will entirely substitute the real libraries.c)To share a picture by just sliding a finger onto the screen.d)To get unrestricted access of monuments for research purposes.e)None of theseCorrect answer is option 'C'. Can you explain this answer? defined & explained in the simplest way possible. Besides giving the explanation of Directions: Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions given below it. Certain words have been printed in underline to help you locate them while answering some of the questions.We live in an age of instant images and memes when 10,000 copies of a picture can be flung around the world in seconds by sliding a finger half an inch across a phone screen. This would have been unbelievable 20 years ago and impossible even to imagine 20 years before that. Go back 1,000 years, and it would have been sorcery. But it is in the world of hand-copied manuscripts 1,000 years old or more than the digital revolution has had some of its most profound and unambiguously beneficial effects. What may have taken three years to write out can today be printed out in three seconds. There are now tens of thousands of once unique documents which have been digitized and placed online for anyone to access all around the world, and this is a vast, democratizing wonder.Take, for example, the Parker Library in Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, which contains the scholarly plunder of monasteries dissolved under Henry VIII during the Reformation and collected by Archbishop Matthew Parker. It has been digitized in a project with Stanford University, and this year the site was opened to all comers to browse after 10 years behind scholarly paywalls. What is astonishing is not just the texts themselves, but the pictures: the illuminations on some of the manuscripts show off the fertility and vividness of the medieval imagination.Digitized collections of these sorts cannot entirely substitute for real libraries. To touch with your own hand a parchment from a medieval monk is an experience no screen can offer, but it is one that must always be restricted to a lucky few. There are some things so old and fragile that even being looked at may damage them. The caves at Lascaux had to be closed to protect the paintings from the breath of tourists and replaced by a virtual display. Yet in some ways, these copies are better than the originals. Reproductions of a high enough quality make obvious detail that’s invisible to the native eye: Twitter is full of astonishing collections of medieval marginalia, some drawn at a scale that makes them easily overlooked. What’s more, digital collections can be gathered on one screen from across the globe. The International Dunhuang Project reunites on the screen tens of thousands of Buddhist scrolls and artifacts taken from an abandoned cave library in western China during the chaotic early years of the 20th century by western collectors. What is possible with this one collection should fairly soon be possible with all the scholarly digitized manuscripts of the world. The hope is to bring them under one system of classification so that they can quickly be searched and sorted no matter where they came from and where they now are stored.The world may always prefer cat gifs to codices, but the translation from parchment to pixels reminds us of the humanistic optimism with which the web came into the world and shows that much of it was not misplaced at all.Q. According to the passage, which of the following would be sorcery/witchery 1000 years ago?a)To search and sort the pictures, manuscripts etc. in a matter of seconds.b)To think that digital collections will entirely substitute the real libraries.c)To share a picture by just sliding a finger onto the screen.d)To get unrestricted access of monuments for research purposes.e)None of theseCorrect answer is option 'C'. Can you explain this answer?, a detailed solution for Directions: Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions given below it. Certain words have been printed in underline to help you locate them while answering some of the questions.We live in an age of instant images and memes when 10,000 copies of a picture can be flung around the world in seconds by sliding a finger half an inch across a phone screen. This would have been unbelievable 20 years ago and impossible even to imagine 20 years before that. Go back 1,000 years, and it would have been sorcery. But it is in the world of hand-copied manuscripts 1,000 years old or more than the digital revolution has had some of its most profound and unambiguously beneficial effects. What may have taken three years to write out can today be printed out in three seconds. There are now tens of thousands of once unique documents which have been digitized and placed online for anyone to access all around the world, and this is a vast, democratizing wonder.Take, for example, the Parker Library in Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, which contains the scholarly plunder of monasteries dissolved under Henry VIII during the Reformation and collected by Archbishop Matthew Parker. It has been digitized in a project with Stanford University, and this year the site was opened to all comers to browse after 10 years behind scholarly paywalls. What is astonishing is not just the texts themselves, but the pictures: the illuminations on some of the manuscripts show off the fertility and vividness of the medieval imagination.Digitized collections of these sorts cannot entirely substitute for real libraries. To touch with your own hand a parchment from a medieval monk is an experience no screen can offer, but it is one that must always be restricted to a lucky few. There are some things so old and fragile that even being looked at may damage them. The caves at Lascaux had to be closed to protect the paintings from the breath of tourists and replaced by a virtual display. Yet in some ways, these copies are better than the originals. Reproductions of a high enough quality make obvious detail that’s invisible to the native eye: Twitter is full of astonishing collections of medieval marginalia, some drawn at a scale that makes them easily overlooked. What’s more, digital collections can be gathered on one screen from across the globe. The International Dunhuang Project reunites on the screen tens of thousands of Buddhist scrolls and artifacts taken from an abandoned cave library in western China during the chaotic early years of the 20th century by western collectors. What is possible with this one collection should fairly soon be possible with all the scholarly digitized manuscripts of the world. The hope is to bring them under one system of classification so that they can quickly be searched and sorted no matter where they came from and where they now are stored.The world may always prefer cat gifs to codices, but the translation from parchment to pixels reminds us of the humanistic optimism with which the web came into the world and shows that much of it was not misplaced at all.Q. According to the passage, which of the following would be sorcery/witchery 1000 years ago?a)To search and sort the pictures, manuscripts etc. in a matter of seconds.b)To think that digital collections will entirely substitute the real libraries.c)To share a picture by just sliding a finger onto the screen.d)To get unrestricted access of monuments for research purposes.e)None of theseCorrect answer is option 'C'. Can you explain this answer? has been provided alongside types of Directions: Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions given below it. Certain words have been printed in underline to help you locate them while answering some of the questions.We live in an age of instant images and memes when 10,000 copies of a picture can be flung around the world in seconds by sliding a finger half an inch across a phone screen. This would have been unbelievable 20 years ago and impossible even to imagine 20 years before that. Go back 1,000 years, and it would have been sorcery. But it is in the world of hand-copied manuscripts 1,000 years old or more than the digital revolution has had some of its most profound and unambiguously beneficial effects. What may have taken three years to write out can today be printed out in three seconds. There are now tens of thousands of once unique documents which have been digitized and placed online for anyone to access all around the world, and this is a vast, democratizing wonder.Take, for example, the Parker Library in Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, which contains the scholarly plunder of monasteries dissolved under Henry VIII during the Reformation and collected by Archbishop Matthew Parker. It has been digitized in a project with Stanford University, and this year the site was opened to all comers to browse after 10 years behind scholarly paywalls. What is astonishing is not just the texts themselves, but the pictures: the illuminations on some of the manuscripts show off the fertility and vividness of the medieval imagination.Digitized collections of these sorts cannot entirely substitute for real libraries. To touch with your own hand a parchment from a medieval monk is an experience no screen can offer, but it is one that must always be restricted to a lucky few. There are some things so old and fragile that even being looked at may damage them. The caves at Lascaux had to be closed to protect the paintings from the breath of tourists and replaced by a virtual display. Yet in some ways, these copies are better than the originals. Reproductions of a high enough quality make obvious detail that’s invisible to the native eye: Twitter is full of astonishing collections of medieval marginalia, some drawn at a scale that makes them easily overlooked. What’s more, digital collections can be gathered on one screen from across the globe. The International Dunhuang Project reunites on the screen tens of thousands of Buddhist scrolls and artifacts taken from an abandoned cave library in western China during the chaotic early years of the 20th century by western collectors. What is possible with this one collection should fairly soon be possible with all the scholarly digitized manuscripts of the world. The hope is to bring them under one system of classification so that they can quickly be searched and sorted no matter where they came from and where they now are stored.The world may always prefer cat gifs to codices, but the translation from parchment to pixels reminds us of the humanistic optimism with which the web came into the world and shows that much of it was not misplaced at all.Q. According to the passage, which of the following would be sorcery/witchery 1000 years ago?a)To search and sort the pictures, manuscripts etc. in a matter of seconds.b)To think that digital collections will entirely substitute the real libraries.c)To share a picture by just sliding a finger onto the screen.d)To get unrestricted access of monuments for research purposes.e)None of theseCorrect answer is option 'C'. Can you explain this answer? theory, EduRev gives you an ample number of questions to practice Directions: Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions given below it. Certain words have been printed in underline to help you locate them while answering some of the questions.We live in an age of instant images and memes when 10,000 copies of a picture can be flung around the world in seconds by sliding a finger half an inch across a phone screen. This would have been unbelievable 20 years ago and impossible even to imagine 20 years before that. Go back 1,000 years, and it would have been sorcery. But it is in the world of hand-copied manuscripts 1,000 years old or more than the digital revolution has had some of its most profound and unambiguously beneficial effects. What may have taken three years to write out can today be printed out in three seconds. There are now tens of thousands of once unique documents which have been digitized and placed online for anyone to access all around the world, and this is a vast, democratizing wonder.Take, for example, the Parker Library in Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, which contains the scholarly plunder of monasteries dissolved under Henry VIII during the Reformation and collected by Archbishop Matthew Parker. It has been digitized in a project with Stanford University, and this year the site was opened to all comers to browse after 10 years behind scholarly paywalls. What is astonishing is not just the texts themselves, but the pictures: the illuminations on some of the manuscripts show off the fertility and vividness of the medieval imagination.Digitized collections of these sorts cannot entirely substitute for real libraries. To touch with your own hand a parchment from a medieval monk is an experience no screen can offer, but it is one that must always be restricted to a lucky few. There are some things so old and fragile that even being looked at may damage them. The caves at Lascaux had to be closed to protect the paintings from the breath of tourists and replaced by a virtual display. Yet in some ways, these copies are better than the originals. Reproductions of a high enough quality make obvious detail that’s invisible to the native eye: Twitter is full of astonishing collections of medieval marginalia, some drawn at a scale that makes them easily overlooked. What’s more, digital collections can be gathered on one screen from across the globe. The International Dunhuang Project reunites on the screen tens of thousands of Buddhist scrolls and artifacts taken from an abandoned cave library in western China during the chaotic early years of the 20th century by western collectors. What is possible with this one collection should fairly soon be possible with all the scholarly digitized manuscripts of the world. The hope is to bring them under one system of classification so that they can quickly be searched and sorted no matter where they came from and where they now are stored.The world may always prefer cat gifs to codices, but the translation from parchment to pixels reminds us of the humanistic optimism with which the web came into the world and shows that much of it was not misplaced at all.Q. According to the passage, which of the following would be sorcery/witchery 1000 years ago?a)To search and sort the pictures, manuscripts etc. in a matter of seconds.b)To think that digital collections will entirely substitute the real libraries.c)To share a picture by just sliding a finger onto the screen.d)To get unrestricted access of monuments for research purposes.e)None of theseCorrect answer is option 'C'. Can you explain this answer? tests, examples and also practice Banking Exams tests.