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Read the passage and answer the question. Passage: The medical records room of a large hospital holds thousands of paper files, each one the story of a patient's treatment. Until recently, finding an old file meant climbing a ladder, opening a dusty bundle and reading handwriting that had faded with time. Two years ago the hospital began scanning every new file on the day it was created, and older files are being scanned in batches, starting with the most recent years. A clerk now types a patient's registration number into a computer and the file appears on the screen in seconds. The change has not removed the need for care. A scanned page that is blurred or cropped cannot be read, and a file given the wrong number may never be found again, so every scan is checked by a second clerk before it is stored. The staff have found that the new system saves its greatest time not in storing files but in finding them, and that a record is useful only when it can be traced quickly and trusted completely. What is the main idea of the passage?

1.
Hospitals should stop keeping paper files at once
2.
Old files are more useful than new files
3.
Scanning records saves time in finding them, but only careful checking keeps them trustworthy
4.
Clerks should never use computers to find files
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Option 3 : Scanning records saves time in finding them, but only careful checking keeps them trustworthy

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सही उत्तर Scanning records saves time in finding them, but only careful checking keeps them trustworthy है।

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The passage explains how scanning makes files quick to find, while careful checking by a second clerk keeps the scanned records trustworthy.

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Read the passage and answer the question. Passage: The medical records room of a large hospital holds thousands of paper files, each one the story of a patient's treatment. Until recently, finding an old file meant climbing a ladder, opening a dusty bundle and reading handwriting that had faded with time. Two years ago the hospital began scanning every new file on the day it was created, and older files are being scanned in batches, starting with the most recent years. A clerk now types a patient's registration number into a computer and the file appears on the screen in seconds. The change has not removed the need for care. A scanned page that is blurred or cropped cannot be read, and a file given the wrong number may never be found again, so every scan is checked by a second clerk before it is stored. The staff have found that the new system saves its greatest time not in storing files but in finding them, and that a record is useful only when it can be traced quickly and trusted completely. What is the main idea of the passage?

1.
Hospitals should stop keeping paper files at once
2.
Old files are more useful than new files
3.
Scanning records saves time in finding them, but only careful checking keeps them trustworthy
4.
Clerks should never use computers to find files

Correct Answer: Scanning records saves time in finding them, but only careful checking keeps them trustworthy

The passage explains how scanning makes files quick to find, while careful checking by a second clerk keeps the scanned records trustworthy.

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