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[109]. Read the following passage carefully:

Passage: "When the first trains ran in India in the nineteenth century, a journey that had taken weeks by bullock cart could be finished in days. Farmers sent grain to distant markets, workers travelled to mills and ports, and students reached colleges far from home. Yet the railway also changed how people thought about distance and time: timetables taught punctuality, stations became meeting places for strangers, and newspapers travelled with the morning train. Today, when a train is delayed, the whole network feels it, because millions of journeys depend on one system. The railway is therefore not only transport; it is a shared timetable on which a large country's daily life runs." The word 'timetable' as used in the passage is closest in meaning to:

1.
something believed to be unavoidable
2.
an important stage in progress
3.
swells outwards
4.
a list showing times of departure and arrival
Answer (Detailed Solution Below)

Option 4 : a list showing times of departure and arrival

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सही उत्तर a list showing times of departure and arrival है।

Key Points

In this context the word carries this sense; the other meanings do not fit the sentence.

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[109]. Read the following passage carefully:

Passage: "When the first trains ran in India in the nineteenth century, a journey that had taken weeks by bullock cart could be finished in days. Farmers sent grain to distant markets, workers travelled to mills and ports, and students reached colleges far from home. Yet the railway also changed how people thought about distance and time: timetables taught punctuality, stations became meeting places for strangers, and newspapers travelled with the morning train. Today, when a train is delayed, the whole network feels it, because millions of journeys depend on one system. The railway is therefore not only transport; it is a shared timetable on which a large country's daily life runs." The word 'timetable' as used in the passage is closest in meaning to:

1.
something believed to be unavoidable
2.
an important stage in progress
3.
swells outwards
4.
a list showing times of departure and arrival

Correct Answer: a list showing times of departure and arrival

In this context the word carries this sense; the other meanings do not fit the sentence.

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