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Directions: Read the following passage carefully and answer the given question.The human story is not looking much like a smooth record of upward progress just now. We are more fragile than we had been led to assume. And this means that we are also less different from our ancestors than we normally like to think – and that the more secure and prosperous members of the human race are less different from their fellow-human beings than they find comfortable. Our ancestors, right up to the modern age, knew they were fragile. A brief period of dazzling technological achievement combined with the absence of any major global war produced the belief that fragility was on the retreat and that making our global environment lastingly secure or controllable was within reach. But the same technical achievements that had generated this belief turned out to be among the major destabilizing influences in the material environment. And the absence of major global conflict sat alongside the proliferation of bitter and vicious local struggles, often civil wars that trailed on for decades.For the foreseeable future, we shall have to get used to this fragility; and we are going to need considerable imaginative resources to cope with it. In the past, people have found resources like this in art and religion. Today it is crucial to learn to see the sciences as a resource and not a threat or a rival to what these older elements offer. Belittling the imaginative inspiration of authentic science is as fatuous as the view that sees the arts as just a pleasant extra in human life, or religion as an outdated kind of scientific explanation. Just because inflated claims are made for science, and unrealistic hopes are raised, it is dangerously easy to forget why and how it matters, and to be lured into the bizarre world in which the minority report in science is given inflated importance just because we have been disappointed about the utterly unqualified certainty that we thought we had been promised.Science helps us live with our fragility by giving us a way of connecting with each other, recognising that it is the same world that we all live in. But what science alone does not do is build the motivation for a deeper level of connection.This is where art comes in. Like the sciences, it makes us shelve our self-oriented habits for a bit. If science helps us discover that there are things to talk about that are not determined just by the self-interest of the people talking, art opens us up to how the stranger feels, uncovering connections where we had not expected them. What religion adds to this is a further level of motivation. Being more deeply connected will not take away the fragility of our condition, but it will help us see that we can actually learn from and with each other.Q. It can be inferred that the author of the passage is most likely to agree with each of the following statementsEXCEPT:a)Not only are imaginative resources not separate intangible resources, but they are also intertwined with factors considered inherently practical.b)It is difficult in the present time to completely eliminate fragility and we would need imaginative resources to deal with it.c)People sometimes readily accept a trivial scientific finding as an important one because of their dissatisfaction with what science had promised earlier.d)Science helps us to understand viewpoints of others and connect with them more deeply to realize that the fragility is actually shared.Correct answer is option 'D'. Can you explain this answer? for CAT 2025 is part of CAT preparation. The Question and answers have been prepared according to the CAT exam syllabus. Information about Directions: Read the following passage carefully and answer the given question.The human story is not looking much like a smooth record of upward progress just now. We are more fragile than we had been led to assume. And this means that we are also less different from our ancestors than we normally like to think – and that the more secure and prosperous members of the human race are less different from their fellow-human beings than they find comfortable. Our ancestors, right up to the modern age, knew they were fragile. A brief period of dazzling technological achievement combined with the absence of any major global war produced the belief that fragility was on the retreat and that making our global environment lastingly secure or controllable was within reach. But the same technical achievements that had generated this belief turned out to be among the major destabilizing influences in the material environment. And the absence of major global conflict sat alongside the proliferation of bitter and vicious local struggles, often civil wars that trailed on for decades.For the foreseeable future, we shall have to get used to this fragility; and we are going to need considerable imaginative resources to cope with it. In the past, people have found resources like this in art and religion. Today it is crucial to learn to see the sciences as a resource and not a threat or a rival to what these older elements offer. Belittling the imaginative inspiration of authentic science is as fatuous as the view that sees the arts as just a pleasant extra in human life, or religion as an outdated kind of scientific explanation. Just because inflated claims are made for science, and unrealistic hopes are raised, it is dangerously easy to forget why and how it matters, and to be lured into the bizarre world in which the minority report in science is given inflated importance just because we have been disappointed about the utterly unqualified certainty that we thought we had been promised.Science helps us live with our fragility by giving us a way of connecting with each other, recognising that it is the same world that we all live in. But what science alone does not do is build the motivation for a deeper level of connection.This is where art comes in. Like the sciences, it makes us shelve our self-oriented habits for a bit. If science helps us discover that there are things to talk about that are not determined just by the self-interest of the people talking, art opens us up to how the stranger feels, uncovering connections where we had not expected them. What religion adds to this is a further level of motivation. Being more deeply connected will not take away the fragility of our condition, but it will help us see that we can actually learn from and with each other.Q. It can be inferred that the author of the passage is most likely to agree with each of the following statementsEXCEPT:a)Not only are imaginative resources not separate intangible resources, but they are also intertwined with factors considered inherently practical.b)It is difficult in the present time to completely eliminate fragility and we would need imaginative resources to deal with it.c)People sometimes readily accept a trivial scientific finding as an important one because of their dissatisfaction with what science had promised earlier.d)Science helps us to understand viewpoints of others and connect with them more deeply to realize that the fragility is actually shared.Correct answer is option 'D'. Can you explain this answer? covers all topics & solutions for CAT 2025 Exam. Find important definitions, questions, meanings, examples, exercises and tests below for Directions: Read the following passage carefully and answer the given question.The human story is not looking much like a smooth record of upward progress just now. We are more fragile than we had been led to assume. And this means that we are also less different from our ancestors than we normally like to think – and that the more secure and prosperous members of the human race are less different from their fellow-human beings than they find comfortable. Our ancestors, right up to the modern age, knew they were fragile. A brief period of dazzling technological achievement combined with the absence of any major global war produced the belief that fragility was on the retreat and that making our global environment lastingly secure or controllable was within reach. But the same technical achievements that had generated this belief turned out to be among the major destabilizing influences in the material environment. And the absence of major global conflict sat alongside the proliferation of bitter and vicious local struggles, often civil wars that trailed on for decades.For the foreseeable future, we shall have to get used to this fragility; and we are going to need considerable imaginative resources to cope with it. In the past, people have found resources like this in art and religion. Today it is crucial to learn to see the sciences as a resource and not a threat or a rival to what these older elements offer. Belittling the imaginative inspiration of authentic science is as fatuous as the view that sees the arts as just a pleasant extra in human life, or religion as an outdated kind of scientific explanation. Just because inflated claims are made for science, and unrealistic hopes are raised, it is dangerously easy to forget why and how it matters, and to be lured into the bizarre world in which the minority report in science is given inflated importance just because we have been disappointed about the utterly unqualified certainty that we thought we had been promised.Science helps us live with our fragility by giving us a way of connecting with each other, recognising that it is the same world that we all live in. But what science alone does not do is build the motivation for a deeper level of connection.This is where art comes in. Like the sciences, it makes us shelve our self-oriented habits for a bit. If science helps us discover that there are things to talk about that are not determined just by the self-interest of the people talking, art opens us up to how the stranger feels, uncovering connections where we had not expected them. What religion adds to this is a further level of motivation. Being more deeply connected will not take away the fragility of our condition, but it will help us see that we can actually learn from and with each other.Q. It can be inferred that the author of the passage is most likely to agree with each of the following statementsEXCEPT:a)Not only are imaginative resources not separate intangible resources, but they are also intertwined with factors considered inherently practical.b)It is difficult in the present time to completely eliminate fragility and we would need imaginative resources to deal with it.c)People sometimes readily accept a trivial scientific finding as an important one because of their dissatisfaction with what science had promised earlier.d)Science helps us to understand viewpoints of others and connect with them more deeply to realize that the fragility is actually shared.Correct answer is option 'D'. Can you explain this answer?.

Solutions for Directions: Read the following passage carefully and answer the given question.The human story is not looking much like a smooth record of upward progress just now. We are more fragile than we had been led to assume. And this means that we are also less different from our ancestors than we normally like to think – and that the more secure and prosperous members of the human race are less different from their fellow-human beings than they find comfortable. Our ancestors, right up to the modern age, knew they were fragile. A brief period of dazzling technological achievement combined with the absence of any major global war produced the belief that fragility was on the retreat and that making our global environment lastingly secure or controllable was within reach. But the same technical achievements that had generated this belief turned out to be among the major destabilizing influences in the material environment. And the absence of major global conflict sat alongside the proliferation of bitter and vicious local struggles, often civil wars that trailed on for decades.For the foreseeable future, we shall have to get used to this fragility; and we are going to need considerable imaginative resources to cope with it. In the past, people have found resources like this in art and religion. Today it is crucial to learn to see the sciences as a resource and not a threat or a rival to what these older elements offer. Belittling the imaginative inspiration of authentic science is as fatuous as the view that sees the arts as just a pleasant extra in human life, or religion as an outdated kind of scientific explanation. Just because inflated claims are made for science, and unrealistic hopes are raised, it is dangerously easy to forget why and how it matters, and to be lured into the bizarre world in which the minority report in science is given inflated importance just because we have been disappointed about the utterly unqualified certainty that we thought we had been promised.Science helps us live with our fragility by giving us a way of connecting with each other, recognising that it is the same world that we all live in. But what science alone does not do is build the motivation for a deeper level of connection.This is where art comes in. Like the sciences, it makes us shelve our self-oriented habits for a bit. If science helps us discover that there are things to talk about that are not determined just by the self-interest of the people talking, art opens us up to how the stranger feels, uncovering connections where we had not expected them. What religion adds to this is a further level of motivation. Being more deeply connected will not take away the fragility of our condition, but it will help us see that we can actually learn from and with each other.Q. It can be inferred that the author of the passage is most likely to agree with each of the following statementsEXCEPT:a)Not only are imaginative resources not separate intangible resources, but they are also intertwined with factors considered inherently practical.b)It is difficult in the present time to completely eliminate fragility and we would need imaginative resources to deal with it.c)People sometimes readily accept a trivial scientific finding as an important one because of their dissatisfaction with what science had promised earlier.d)Science helps us to understand viewpoints of others and connect with them more deeply to realize that the fragility is actually shared.Correct answer is option 'D'. Can you explain this answer? in English & in Hindi are available as part of our courses for CAT. Download more important topics, notes, lectures and mock test series for CAT Exam by signing up for free.

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And the absence of major global conflict sat alongside the proliferation of bitter and vicious local struggles, often civil wars that trailed on for decades.For the foreseeable future, we shall have to get used to this fragility; and we are going to need considerable imaginative resources to cope with it. In the past, people have found resources like this in art and religion. Today it is crucial to learn to see the sciences as a resource and not a threat or a rival to what these older elements offer. Belittling the imaginative inspiration of authentic science is as fatuous as the view that sees the arts as just a pleasant extra in human life, or religion as an outdated kind of scientific explanation. Just because inflated claims are made for science, and unrealistic hopes are raised, it is dangerously easy to forget why and how it matters, and to be lured into the bizarre world in which the minority report in science is given inflated importance just because we have been disappointed about the utterly unqualified certainty that we thought we had been promised.Science helps us live with our fragility by giving us a way of connecting with each other, recognising that it is the same world that we all live in. But what science alone does not do is build the motivation for a deeper level of connection.This is where art comes in. Like the sciences, it makes us shelve our self-oriented habits for a bit. If science helps us discover that there are things to talk about that are not determined just by the self-interest of the people talking, art opens us up to how the stranger feels, uncovering connections where we had not expected them. What religion adds to this is a further level of motivation. Being more deeply connected will not take away the fragility of our condition, but it will help us see that we can actually learn from and with each other.Q. It can be inferred that the author of the passage is most likely to agree with each of the following statementsEXCEPT:a)Not only are imaginative resources not separate intangible resources, but they are also intertwined with factors considered inherently practical.b)It is difficult in the present time to completely eliminate fragility and we would need imaginative resources to deal with it.c)People sometimes readily accept a trivial scientific finding as an important one because of their dissatisfaction with what science had promised earlier.d)Science helps us to understand viewpoints of others and connect with them more deeply to realize that the fragility is actually shared.Correct answer is option 'D'. 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 given question.The human story is not looking much like a smooth record of upward progress just now. We are more fragile than we had been led to assume. And this means that we are also less different from our ancestors than we normally like to think – and that the more secure and prosperous members of the human race are less different from their fellow-human beings than they find comfortable. Our ancestors, right up to the modern age, knew they were fragile. A brief period of dazzling technological achievement combined with the absence of any major global war produced the belief that fragility was on the retreat and that making our global environment lastingly secure or controllable was within reach. But the same technical achievements that had generated this belief turned out to be among the major destabilizing influences in the material environment. And the absence of major global conflict sat alongside the proliferation of bitter and vicious local struggles, often civil wars that trailed on for decades.For the foreseeable future, we shall have to get used to this fragility; and we are going to need considerable imaginative resources to cope with it. In the past, people have found resources like this in art and religion. Today it is crucial to learn to see the sciences as a resource and not a threat or a rival to what these older elements offer. Belittling the imaginative inspiration of authentic science is as fatuous as the view that sees the arts as just a pleasant extra in human life, or religion as an outdated kind of scientific explanation. Just because inflated claims are made for science, and unrealistic hopes are raised, it is dangerously easy to forget why and how it matters, and to be lured into the bizarre world in which the minority report in science is given inflated importance just because we have been disappointed about the utterly unqualified certainty that we thought we had been promised.Science helps us live with our fragility by giving us a way of connecting with each other, recognising that it is the same world that we all live in. But what science alone does not do is build the motivation for a deeper level of connection.This is where art comes in. Like the sciences, it makes us shelve our self-oriented habits for a bit. If science helps us discover that there are things to talk about that are not determined just by the self-interest of the people talking, art opens us up to how the stranger feels, uncovering connections where we had not expected them. What religion adds to this is a further level of motivation. Being more deeply connected will not take away the fragility of our condition, but it will help us see that we can actually learn from and with each other.Q. It can be inferred that the author of the passage is most likely to agree with each of the following statementsEXCEPT:a)Not only are imaginative resources not separate intangible resources, but they are also intertwined with factors considered inherently practical.b)It is difficult in the present time to completely eliminate fragility and we would need imaginative resources to deal with it.c)People sometimes readily accept a trivial scientific finding as an important one because of their dissatisfaction with what science had promised earlier.d)Science helps us to understand viewpoints of others and connect with them more deeply to realize that the fragility is actually shared.Correct answer is option 'D'. Can you explain this answer?, a detailed solution for Directions: Read the following passage carefully and answer the given question.The human story is not looking much like a smooth record of upward progress just now. We are more fragile than we had been led to assume. And this means that we are also less different from our ancestors than we normally like to think – and that the more secure and prosperous members of the human race are less different from their fellow-human beings than they find comfortable. Our ancestors, right up to the modern age, knew they were fragile. A brief period of dazzling technological achievement combined with the absence of any major global war produced the belief that fragility was on the retreat and that making our global environment lastingly secure or controllable was within reach. But the same technical achievements that had generated this belief turned out to be among the major destabilizing influences in the material environment. And the absence of major global conflict sat alongside the proliferation of bitter and vicious local struggles, often civil wars that trailed on for decades.For the foreseeable future, we shall have to get used to this fragility; and we are going to need considerable imaginative resources to cope with it. In the past, people have found resources like this in art and religion. Today it is crucial to learn to see the sciences as a resource and not a threat or a rival to what these older elements offer. Belittling the imaginative inspiration of authentic science is as fatuous as the view that sees the arts as just a pleasant extra in human life, or religion as an outdated kind of scientific explanation. Just because inflated claims are made for science, and unrealistic hopes are raised, it is dangerously easy to forget why and how it matters, and to be lured into the bizarre world in which the minority report in science is given inflated importance just because we have been disappointed about the utterly unqualified certainty that we thought we had been promised.Science helps us live with our fragility by giving us a way of connecting with each other, recognising that it is the same world that we all live in. But what science alone does not do is build the motivation for a deeper level of connection.This is where art comes in. Like the sciences, it makes us shelve our self-oriented habits for a bit. If science helps us discover that there are things to talk about that are not determined just by the self-interest of the people talking, art opens us up to how the stranger feels, uncovering connections where we had not expected them. What religion adds to this is a further level of motivation. Being more deeply connected will not take away the fragility of our condition, but it will help us see that we can actually learn from and with each other.Q. It can be inferred that the author of the passage is most likely to agree with each of the following statementsEXCEPT:a)Not only are imaginative resources not separate intangible resources, but they are also intertwined with factors considered inherently practical.b)It is difficult in the present time to completely eliminate fragility and we would need imaginative resources to deal with it.c)People sometimes readily accept a trivial scientific finding as an important one because of their dissatisfaction with what science had promised earlier.d)Science helps us to understand viewpoints of others and connect with them more deeply to realize that the fragility is actually shared.Correct answer is option 'D'. Can you explain this answer? has been provided alongside types of Directions: Read the following passage carefully and answer the given question.The human story is not looking much like a smooth record of upward progress just now. We are more fragile than we had been led to assume. And this means that we are also less different from our ancestors than we normally like to think – and that the more secure and prosperous members of the human race are less different from their fellow-human beings than they find comfortable. Our ancestors, right up to the modern age, knew they were fragile. A brief period of dazzling technological achievement combined with the absence of any major global war produced the belief that fragility was on the retreat and that making our global environment lastingly secure or controllable was within reach. But the same technical achievements that had generated this belief turned out to be among the major destabilizing influences in the material environment. And the absence of major global conflict sat alongside the proliferation of bitter and vicious local struggles, often civil wars that trailed on for decades.For the foreseeable future, we shall have to get used to this fragility; and we are going to need considerable imaginative resources to cope with it. In the past, people have found resources like this in art and religion. Today it is crucial to learn to see the sciences as a resource and not a threat or a rival to what these older elements offer. Belittling the imaginative inspiration of authentic science is as fatuous as the view that sees the arts as just a pleasant extra in human life, or religion as an outdated kind of scientific explanation. Just because inflated claims are made for science, and unrealistic hopes are raised, it is dangerously easy to forget why and how it matters, and to be lured into the bizarre world in which the minority report in science is given inflated importance just because we have been disappointed about the utterly unqualified certainty that we thought we had been promised.Science helps us live with our fragility by giving us a way of connecting with each other, recognising that it is the same world that we all live in. But what science alone does not do is build the motivation for a deeper level of connection.This is where art comes in. Like the sciences, it makes us shelve our self-oriented habits for a bit. If science helps us discover that there are things to talk about that are not determined just by the self-interest of the people talking, art opens us up to how the stranger feels, uncovering connections where we had not expected them. What religion adds to this is a further level of motivation. Being more deeply connected will not take away the fragility of our condition, but it will help us see that we can actually learn from and with each other.Q. It can be inferred that the author of the passage is most likely to agree with each of the following statementsEXCEPT:a)Not only are imaginative resources not separate intangible resources, but they are also intertwined with factors considered inherently practical.b)It is difficult in the present time to completely eliminate fragility and we would need imaginative resources to deal with it.c)People sometimes readily accept a trivial scientific finding as an important one because of their dissatisfaction with what science had promised earlier.d)Science helps us to understand viewpoints of others and connect with them more deeply to realize that the fragility is actually shared.Correct answer is option 'D'. 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 given question.The human story is not looking much like a smooth record of upward progress just now. We are more fragile than we had been led to assume. And this means that we are also less different from our ancestors than we normally like to think – and that the more secure and prosperous members of the human race are less different from their fellow-human beings than they find comfortable. Our ancestors, right up to the modern age, knew they were fragile. A brief period of dazzling technological achievement combined with the absence of any major global war produced the belief that fragility was on the retreat and that making our global environment lastingly secure or controllable was within reach. But the same technical achievements that had generated this belief turned out to be among the major destabilizing influences in the material environment. And the absence of major global conflict sat alongside the proliferation of bitter and vicious local struggles, often civil wars that trailed on for decades.For the foreseeable future, we shall have to get used to this fragility; and we are going to need considerable imaginative resources to cope with it. In the past, people have found resources like this in art and religion. Today it is crucial to learn to see the sciences as a resource and not a threat or a rival to what these older elements offer. Belittling the imaginative inspiration of authentic science is as fatuous as the view that sees the arts as just a pleasant extra in human life, or religion as an outdated kind of scientific explanation. Just because inflated claims are made for science, and unrealistic hopes are raised, it is dangerously easy to forget why and how it matters, and to be lured into the bizarre world in which the minority report in science is given inflated importance just because we have been disappointed about the utterly unqualified certainty that we thought we had been promised.Science helps us live with our fragility by giving us a way of connecting with each other, recognising that it is the same world that we all live in. But what science alone does not do is build the motivation for a deeper level of connection.This is where art comes in. Like the sciences, it makes us shelve our self-oriented habits for a bit. If science helps us discover that there are things to talk about that are not determined just by the self-interest of the people talking, art opens us up to how the stranger feels, uncovering connections where we had not expected them. What religion adds to this is a further level of motivation. Being more deeply connected will not take away the fragility of our condition, but it will help us see that we can actually learn from and with each other.Q. It can be inferred that the author of the passage is most likely to agree with each of the following statementsEXCEPT:a)Not only are imaginative resources not separate intangible resources, but they are also intertwined with factors considered inherently practical.b)It is difficult in the present time to completely eliminate fragility and we would need imaginative resources to deal with it.c)People sometimes readily accept a trivial scientific finding as an important one because of their dissatisfaction with what science had promised earlier.d)Science helps us to understand viewpoints of others and connect with them more deeply to realize that the fragility is actually shared.Correct answer is option 'D'. 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