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[2]. Passage: The deep sea remains the least mapped environment on Earth, darker, colder and under greater pressure than any place humans routinely visit. Submersibles have revealed hydrothermal vents where life thrives without sunlight, challenging textbook accounts that tied all food chains to photosynthesis. Yet each expedition also exposes how sampling bias distorts knowledge: vents and ridges are studied intensively while vast abyssal plains are barely sampled. Claims about mineral wealth or new species therefore rest on fragments. Honest exploration must report what was not seen, protect fragile vents from hasty extraction, and accept that the ocean floor will revise many confident generalisations. Which inference is best supported by the passage?

1.
A single strict ban solves every problem described in the passage.
2.
What cannot be measured in a photograph is unimportant for policy.
3.
Communities and users have no useful role in monitoring or regulation.
4.
Outcomes improve when rules or protections are combined with understanding, participation and measurable indicators, not by appearance or punishment alone.
Answer (Detailed Solution Below)

Option 4 : Outcomes improve when rules or protections are combined with understanding, participation and measurable indicators, not by appearance or punishment alone.

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सही उत्तर Outcomes improve when rules or protections are combined with understanding, participation and measurable indicators, not by appearance or punishment alone. है।

Key Points

This inference follows from the passage's repeated contrast between cosmetic or punitive measures and deeper, participatory measures.

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[2]. Passage: The deep sea remains the least mapped environment on Earth, darker, colder and under greater pressure than any place humans routinely visit. Submersibles have revealed hydrothermal vents where life thrives without sunlight, challenging textbook accounts that tied all food chains to photosynthesis. Yet each expedition also exposes how sampling bias distorts knowledge: vents and ridges are studied intensively while vast abyssal plains are barely sampled. Claims about mineral wealth or new species therefore rest on fragments. Honest exploration must report what was not seen, protect fragile vents from hasty extraction, and accept that the ocean floor will revise many confident generalisations. Which inference is best supported by the passage?

1.
A single strict ban solves every problem described in the passage.
2.
What cannot be measured in a photograph is unimportant for policy.
3.
Communities and users have no useful role in monitoring or regulation.
4.
Outcomes improve when rules or protections are combined with understanding, participation and measurable indicators, not by appearance or punishment alone.

Correct Answer: Outcomes improve when rules or protections are combined with understanding, participation and measurable indicators, not by appearance or punishment alone.

This inference follows from the passage's repeated contrast between cosmetic or punitive measures and deeper, participatory measures.

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