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[112]. Passage:

Monsoon science in school often stops at a diagram of clouds, but a child who measures rainfall in a bottle, records it for a month and compares it with a neighbour's village learns something a diagram cannot teach. Data make weather personal: a dry week means a delayed sowing, a heavy night means a swollen drain. When students collect, graph and question their own numbers, they practise the core of science — observation, doubt and revision — rather than memorising labels for clouds they have never watched. In the passage on rainfall measurement, the word 'personal' is used most nearly to mean

1.
The opposite of the passage's sense
2.
A purely technical term
3.
A place name
4.
personal and lived
Answer (Detailed Solution Below)

Option 4 : personal and lived

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सही उत्तर personal and lived है।

Key Points

In context, 'personal' conveys personal and lived.

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[112]. Passage:

Monsoon science in school often stops at a diagram of clouds, but a child who measures rainfall in a bottle, records it for a month and compares it with a neighbour's village learns something a diagram cannot teach. Data make weather personal: a dry week means a delayed sowing, a heavy night means a swollen drain. When students collect, graph and question their own numbers, they practise the core of science — observation, doubt and revision — rather than memorising labels for clouds they have never watched. In the passage on rainfall measurement, the word 'personal' is used most nearly to mean

1.
The opposite of the passage's sense
2.
A purely technical term
3.
A place name
4.
personal and lived

Correct Answer: personal and lived

In context, 'personal' conveys personal and lived.

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