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[109]. Read the following passage carefully:

Passage: "A seed bank is a library that lends no books. It stores seeds in cold, dry rooms so that a crop variety lost in the field can be grown again. Farmers once kept seeds in earthen pots; seed banks do the same work at larger scale and for longer time. When a flood or disease wipes out a local variety, the bank can return its seeds. A seed bank does not replace farmers. It backs them up when their own stores fail." The phrase 'a library that lends no books' means —

1.
A seed bank stores and returns seeds, like a library stores books, but its items are seeds
2.
Books grow from seeds
3.
Seed banks have no building
4.
Libraries lend seeds
Answer (Detailed Solution Below)

Option 1 : A seed bank stores and returns seeds, like a library stores books, but its items are seeds

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सही उत्तर A seed bank stores and returns seeds, like a library stores books, but its items are seeds है।

Key Points

The metaphor compares storage and return, with seeds instead of books.

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[109]. Read the following passage carefully:

Passage: "A seed bank is a library that lends no books. It stores seeds in cold, dry rooms so that a crop variety lost in the field can be grown again. Farmers once kept seeds in earthen pots; seed banks do the same work at larger scale and for longer time. When a flood or disease wipes out a local variety, the bank can return its seeds. A seed bank does not replace farmers. It backs them up when their own stores fail." The phrase 'a library that lends no books' means —

1.
A seed bank stores and returns seeds, like a library stores books, but its items are seeds
2.
Books grow from seeds
3.
Seed banks have no building
4.
Libraries lend seeds

Correct Answer: A seed bank stores and returns seeds, like a library stores books, but its items are seeds

The metaphor compares storage and return, with seeds instead of books.

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