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Option 1 : Their benefits are spread thinly across many people while their costs fall on a few organised interests, making reform politically difficult.

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सही उत्तर Their benefits are spread thinly across many people while their costs fall on a few organised interests, making reform politically difficult. है।

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Question:

Refer to the passage given above. What can be inferred from the passage about efforts to abate urban noise?

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Their benefits are spread thinly across many people while their costs fall on a few organised interests, making reform politically difficult.
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They are opposed mainly by residents who personally enjoy late-night freight traffic.
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They can succeed only by shutting down every airport located near a school.
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They are unnecessary because children adapt fully to the sound of flight paths.

Correct Answer: Their benefits are spread thinly across many people while their costs fall on a few organised interests, making reform politically difficult.

The passage describes noise abatement as "a public good with diffuse beneficiaries and concentrated costs," whose proposals "collide with an organised lobby." Options (b), (c) and (d) contradict the passage.

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