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Refer the below paragraph and answer next 5 questions:

The reports published by a Delhi based nongovernment organization working for the elimination of child labour in India suggest that there is no end in sight to the sordid saga of child labour. The studies conducted reveal the nightmarish ordeals that a vast majority of children undergo for getting the basic necessities of life. One of the activists narrated the heart-rending and shocking stories of many hapless children. He accused the society of insensitivity towards this vulnerable section. It is said that more than five percent of the total Indian population are child workers. Tens of thousands are chiefly engaged in agriculture in rural areas and in a variety of industries in urban areas. Children as young as seven years of age spend days stitching footballs, boxing and cricket gloves for export. Many children spend their entire childhood making carpets with their dexterous hands. Unofficial figures suggest that as many as 40 to 100 million children work in hazardous industries like glassware, fireworks, quarries etc. Many of them have been forced to work in unhygienic conditions often on a casual basis.

.................of children work in hazardous conditions.

	Millions
	Five percent
	Thousands
	Many

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	Vulnerability
	Insensitivity
	Bias
	Reports

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	Nightmarish
	Hapless
	Urban
	Vast

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	Distressing
	Shocking
	Painful
	Risky

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	The Delhi government.
	A governmental organization.
	An activist.
	Delhi based non-governmental organization.

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In the technological system of tomorrow – fast, fluid and self-regulating – machines will deal with the flow of physical materials, men with the flow of information and insight. Machines will increasingly perform tasks. Machines and men both, instead of being concentrated in gigantic factories and factory cities, will be scattered across the globe, linked together by amazingly sensitive, near instantaneous communications. Human work will move out of the factory and mass office into the community and the home. Machines will be synchronized, as some already are, to the billionth of a second; men will be desynchronized. The factory whistle will vanish. Even the clock, “the key machine of the modern industrial age” as Lewis Mumford called it a generation ago, will lose some of its power over humans, as distinct from purely technological affairs. Simultaneously, the organisation needed to control technology will shift from bureaucracy to Adhocracy, from permanence to transience, and from a concern with the present to a focus on the future. In such a world, the most valued attributes of the industrial age become handicaps. The technology of tomorrow requires not millions of lightly lettered men, ready to work in unison at endlessly repetitive jobs; it requires not men who take orders in unblinking fashion, aware that the price of bread is mechanical submission to authority, but men who can make critical judgements, who can weave their way through novel environments, who are quick to spot new relation-ships in the rapidly changing reality. It requires men who, in C.P. Snow’s, compelling terms, “have the future in their bones”.

The technological system of tomorrow will be marked by....

	Dehumanization
	Perfection
	Automation
	Unpredictability

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	Anachronization
	Mischronization
	Desynchronization
	Synchronization

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	A mind assimilative of modern scientific ideas
	A critical mind having insight into future
	A mind will-versed in cultural heritage
	A mind with firm principles of life

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	Most adaptive and intelligent
	Most capable of dealing with the changing reality
	More concerned with the present than the future
	Trained and obedient

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	A believer in devotion to duty
	A believer in taking things for granted
	A believer in doing what he is told, right or wrong
	A believer in the honesty of machines