Question
[107]. Read the following passage carefully:
Passage: "A porter named Dorje carried loads for trekkers in the high Himalayas. For twenty years he had watched the same glacier. Each year, he told visitors, the ice ended a little higher up the mountain. Scientists who visited confirmed what Dorje had seen: the glacier was retreating. Dorje did not use scientific words. He pointed to a rock where ice had stood when he was young and showed how bare it now was. When a young student asked what could be done, Dorje said that people in distant cities must understand that their smoke and waste reach even these mountains. He believed that the eyes of those who live with nature notice change first, and that their warning should be heard before it is too late." How did Dorje show the glacier's retreat without scientific words?
Option 2 : By pointing to a rock where ice had stood in his youth and showing how bare it now was.
Detailed Solution
सही उत्तर By pointing to a rock where ice had stood in his youth and showing how bare it now was. है।
The rock comparison is Dorje's own method in the passage.
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[107]. Read the following passage carefully:
Passage: "A porter named Dorje carried loads for trekkers in the high Himalayas. For twenty years he had watched the same glacier. Each year, he told visitors, the ice ended a little higher up the mountain. Scientists who visited confirmed what Dorje had seen: the glacier was retreating. Dorje did not use scientific words. He pointed to a rock where ice had stood when he was young and showed how bare it now was. When a young student asked what could be done, Dorje said that people in distant cities must understand that their smoke and waste reach even these mountains. He believed that the eyes of those who live with nature notice change first, and that their warning should be heard before it is too late." How did Dorje show the glacier's retreat without scientific words?
Correct Answer: By pointing to a rock where ice had stood in his youth and showing how bare it now was.
The rock comparison is Dorje's own method in the passage.