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[120]. Read the following passage carefully and answer the question.

Passage: The bicycle began as a clumsy wooden machine without pedals, pushed along by the rider's feet. Inventors added pedals, chains, rubber tyres and brakes over many decades, each small change making the machine faster, safer and cheaper. The result changed ordinary life more than its inventors expected. Workers could travel farther to jobs, women gained a new freedom of movement, and villages once isolated by distance came within an hour's ride of a town. The bicycle also taught a lesson about invention: great change often comes not from one sudden genius but from many small improvements, tested by ordinary users who report what breaks, what hurts and what works. A simple machine, improved patiently, can reshape a society. In the context of the passage, the word 'isolated' most nearly means:

1.
a single example of a plant or animal collected for study
2.
a book or document written by hand before printing
3.
cut off from other places, far from towns and people
4.
moving back, becoming smaller over time
Answer (Detailed Solution Below)

Option 3 : cut off from other places, far from towns and people

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सही उत्तर cut off from other places, far from towns and people है।

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In this passage 'isolated' means: cut off from other places, far from towns and people.

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[120]. Read the following passage carefully and answer the question.

Passage: The bicycle began as a clumsy wooden machine without pedals, pushed along by the rider's feet. Inventors added pedals, chains, rubber tyres and brakes over many decades, each small change making the machine faster, safer and cheaper. The result changed ordinary life more than its inventors expected. Workers could travel farther to jobs, women gained a new freedom of movement, and villages once isolated by distance came within an hour's ride of a town. The bicycle also taught a lesson about invention: great change often comes not from one sudden genius but from many small improvements, tested by ordinary users who report what breaks, what hurts and what works. A simple machine, improved patiently, can reshape a society. In the context of the passage, the word 'isolated' most nearly means:

1.
a single example of a plant or animal collected for study
2.
a book or document written by hand before printing
3.
cut off from other places, far from towns and people
4.
moving back, becoming smaller over time

Correct Answer: cut off from other places, far from towns and people

In this passage 'isolated' means: cut off from other places, far from towns and people.

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