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[5]. Read the following passage carefully:

Passage: "In a town where streetlights hid the stars, twelve-year-old Tara built a small telescope from old lenses and a cardboard tube. Every clear night she climbed to the roof, counted stars in one patch of sky, and wrote the numbers in a notebook. Her friends teased her: the sky never changed, they said. But Tara's notebook showed something else — some stars brightened and dimmed over weeks, and one 'star' moved slowly night after night. A visiting science teacher explained that the moving point was a planet, and the brightening stars were variables. Tara had not discovered a new world. She had discovered that careful watching makes the familiar sky unfamiliar." The last sentence means that —

1.
Telescopes change the sky
2.
Patient observation transforms familiar things into objects of discovery
3.
New worlds are easy to find
4.
The sky is unfamiliar to everyone
Answer (Detailed Solution Below)

Option 2 : Patient observation transforms familiar things into objects of discovery

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सही उत्तर Patient observation transforms familiar things into objects of discovery है।

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Careful watching makes the familiar unfamiliar.

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[5]. Read the following passage carefully:

Passage: "In a town where streetlights hid the stars, twelve-year-old Tara built a small telescope from old lenses and a cardboard tube. Every clear night she climbed to the roof, counted stars in one patch of sky, and wrote the numbers in a notebook. Her friends teased her: the sky never changed, they said. But Tara's notebook showed something else — some stars brightened and dimmed over weeks, and one 'star' moved slowly night after night. A visiting science teacher explained that the moving point was a planet, and the brightening stars were variables. Tara had not discovered a new world. She had discovered that careful watching makes the familiar sky unfamiliar." The last sentence means that —

1.
Telescopes change the sky
2.
Patient observation transforms familiar things into objects of discovery
3.
New worlds are easy to find
4.
The sky is unfamiliar to everyone

Correct Answer: Patient observation transforms familiar things into objects of discovery

Careful watching makes the familiar unfamiliar.

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