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[124]. Passage:

History textbooks often present kings and battles while omitting artisans, peasants and women who made everyday life possible. A chapter on a fort that ignores the quarry workers, cooks and water carriers who sustained it tells half a story. Including ordinary people does not diminish great events; it explains how they were possible and who paid their costs. A fuller history therefore asks not only who ruled, but who worked, who moved and who remembered. In the passage on history textbooks, the word 'costs' is used most nearly to mean

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

Option 4 : unpaid costs

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Detailed Solution

सही उत्तर unpaid costs है।

Key Points

In context, 'costs' conveys unpaid costs.

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[124]. Passage:

History textbooks often present kings and battles while omitting artisans, peasants and women who made everyday life possible. A chapter on a fort that ignores the quarry workers, cooks and water carriers who sustained it tells half a story. Including ordinary people does not diminish great events; it explains how they were possible and who paid their costs. A fuller history therefore asks not only who ruled, but who worked, who moved and who remembered. In the passage on history textbooks, the word 'costs' is used most nearly to mean

1.
The opposite of the passage's sense
2.
A purely technical term
3.
A place name
4.
unpaid costs

Correct Answer: unpaid costs

In context, 'costs' conveys unpaid costs.

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