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The other day we heard someone smilingly refer to poets as dreamers. Now, it is accurate to refer to poets as dreamers, but is not discerning to infer, as this person did, that the dreams of poets have no practical value beyond the realm of literary diversion. The truth is that poets are just as practical as people who build bridges or look into microscopes and just as close to reality and truth. Where they differ from the logician and the scientist is in the temporal sense alone; they are ahead of their time, whereas logicians and scientists are abreast of their time. We must not be so superficial that we fail to discern the practicable ness of dreams. Dreams are the sunrise streamers heralding a new day of scientific progress, another forward surge. Every forward step man takes, in any field of life, is first taken along the dreamy paths of imagination. Robert Fulton did not discover his steamboat with full steam up, straining at some Hudson River dock ; first he dreamed the steamboat, he and other dreamers, and then scientific wisdom converted a picture in the mind into a reality of steel and wood. The automobile was not dug out of the ground like a nugget to gold; first men dreamed the automobile, and afterward, long afterward, the practical minded engineers caught up with what had been created by winging fantasy. He who looks deeply and with a seeing eye into poetry of yesterday finds there all the cold scientific magic of today and much which we shall not enjoy until some tomorrow. If the poet does not dream so clearly that blueprints of his vision can immediately be drawn and the practical conversions immediately effected, he must not for that reason be described as merely the mental host for a sort of harmless madness. For the poet, like an engineer, is a specialist. His being, turned to the life of tomorrow, cannot be turned simultaneously to the life of today. To the scientist he says, “Here, I give you a flash of the future”. The wise scientist thanks him, and takes that flash of the future and makes it over into a fiber of today.

Question: 1

From the para one can safely conclude that:

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  • Poets inspire scientific research
  • Without imagination there would be no progress
  • The greatest achievements of today were once fanciful dreams of some people
  • Poets live in the intangible future
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The Correct Option is C

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From the paragraph one can safely conclude that: (C) The greatest achievements of today were once fanciful dreams of some people
As The passage clearly highlights how inventions like the steamboat and automobile were once only dreams before becoming reality, implying that today's achievements originated as dreams.
The correct option is (C): The greatest achievements of today were once fanciful dreams of some people

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Question: 2

Which of the following statements is least erroneous?

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  • The poet has more faith in the future than all the scientists and artists
  • The author lays more faith in the poets than most of us
  • All progress would stop if poetry turned realistic
  • None of the above
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The Correct Option is B

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(B) The author lays more faith in the poets than most of us

As The author clearly values the dreams of poets more than the general public does, emphasizing their practical significance for future progress.

The correct option is (B): The author lays more faith in the poets than most of us

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Question: 3

What is common to both Poets & Scientists?

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  • They are cut-off from reality
  • They live in a world of their own
  • Both can change impossible to possible
  • Both dare to dream the seemingly impossible
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The Correct Option is C

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As we can clearly see The passage illustrates how poets and scientists both dare to dream of the seemingly impossible, with scientists eventually bringing those dreams into reality.

The correct option is (C): Both can change impossible to possible

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Question: 4

The author’s attitude towards poets differs from that of the general public in that:

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  • most people have a patronizing attitude while the author is in awe of poets
  • most people take poets to be impractical dreamers the author has a great deal of faith in those dreams
  • contrary to popular belief the author looks upon poets as chimerical visionaries
  • he holds them in high esteem
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The Correct Option is B

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The author’s attitude towards poets differs from that of the general public in that: (B) most people take poets to be impractical dreamers, the author has a great deal of faith in those dreams

In the Passage The author argues against the common perception that poets are just dreamers with no practical value and instead believes in the practical importance of their dreams.

The correct option is (B): most people take poets to be impractical dreamers the author has a great deal of faith in those dreams

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