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Read the passage and answer the question. Passage: In a small town in the hills, the public library is a single room above the post office, and it is run entirely by volunteers. It opens for two hours every evening, and on Sundays a retired teacher sits at the desk, helping children choose books and stamping the cards of older readers. The library owns barely two thousand books, yet it lends more than any library of its size in the district, because every book on its shelves has been chosen by someone who knows the readers by name. When a shelf grows empty, the volunteers write to publishers and to former residents of the town, asking for gifts of books, and the parcels that arrive are opened together on Sunday mornings. The library survives on very little money, but it has never closed a day for want of funds, for the townspeople give what they can, a few rupees, a shelf, or an hour of their time. Its real strength, the teacher says, is not the books at all but the habit of reading that has grown around them. What does the teacher say is the library's real strength?

1.
The money given by the townspeople
2.
The habit of reading that has grown around the books
3.
The number of books on its shelves
4.
The size of its building
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Option 2 : The habit of reading that has grown around the books

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सही उत्तर The habit of reading that has grown around the books है।

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The teacher says the library's real strength is not the books at all but the habit of reading that has grown around them.

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Read the passage and answer the question. Passage: In a small town in the hills, the public library is a single room above the post office, and it is run entirely by volunteers. It opens for two hours every evening, and on Sundays a retired teacher sits at the desk, helping children choose books and stamping the cards of older readers. The library owns barely two thousand books, yet it lends more than any library of its size in the district, because every book on its shelves has been chosen by someone who knows the readers by name. When a shelf grows empty, the volunteers write to publishers and to former residents of the town, asking for gifts of books, and the parcels that arrive are opened together on Sunday mornings. The library survives on very little money, but it has never closed a day for want of funds, for the townspeople give what they can, a few rupees, a shelf, or an hour of their time. Its real strength, the teacher says, is not the books at all but the habit of reading that has grown around them. What does the teacher say is the library's real strength?

1.
The money given by the townspeople
2.
The habit of reading that has grown around the books
3.
The number of books on its shelves
4.
The size of its building

Correct Answer: The habit of reading that has grown around the books

The teacher says the library's real strength is not the books at all but the habit of reading that has grown around them.

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