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

Passage: At dawn, a forest fills with birdsong, and it is tempting to hear it as mere music. In fact, birds sing for urgent reasons: to defend a territory, to attract a mate, to warn of a predator, and to keep contact with a flock. A young bird learns its species' song by listening, practising and correcting mistakes, much as a child learns language; a bird raised in silence sings a broken version of the song. Some birds even vary their songs by season and by rival, showing that song is not a fixed recording but a flexible tool. Listening carefully to birdsong is therefore listening to communication under pressure: identity, warning and courtship compressed into a few seconds of sound, repeated until the message is received.

According to the passage, which of the following statements is true?

1.
Early maps sometimes filled unknown lands with pictures of monsters and guessed at coastlines.
2.
Cooled lava breaks down over centuries into rich, fertile soil that farmers prize.
3.
Keepers cleaned the great lens, trimmed the wick and watched through the night that the lamp never went out.
4.
A young bird learns its species' song by listening, practising and correcting mistakes, much as a child learns language.
Answer (Detailed Solution Below)

Option 4 : A young bird learns its species' song by listening, practising and correcting mistakes, much as a child learns language.

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सही उत्तर A young bird learns its species' song by listening, practising and correcting mistakes, much as a child learns language. है।

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The passage states: A young bird learns its species' song by listening, practising and correcting mistakes, much as a child learns language.

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

Passage: At dawn, a forest fills with birdsong, and it is tempting to hear it as mere music. In fact, birds sing for urgent reasons: to defend a territory, to attract a mate, to warn of a predator, and to keep contact with a flock. A young bird learns its species' song by listening, practising and correcting mistakes, much as a child learns language; a bird raised in silence sings a broken version of the song. Some birds even vary their songs by season and by rival, showing that song is not a fixed recording but a flexible tool. Listening carefully to birdsong is therefore listening to communication under pressure: identity, warning and courtship compressed into a few seconds of sound, repeated until the message is received.

According to the passage, which of the following statements is true?

1.
Early maps sometimes filled unknown lands with pictures of monsters and guessed at coastlines.
2.
Cooled lava breaks down over centuries into rich, fertile soil that farmers prize.
3.
Keepers cleaned the great lens, trimmed the wick and watched through the night that the lamp never went out.
4.
A young bird learns its species' song by listening, practising and correcting mistakes, much as a child learns language.

Correct Answer: A young bird learns its species' song by listening, practising and correcting mistakes, much as a child learns language.

The passage states: A young bird learns its species' song by listening, practising and correcting mistakes, much as a child learns language.

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