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UPSC CSE CSAT 2018 · Paper II (CSAT) · Question 51 · Reading comprehension

निम्नलिखित में से कौन-सा एक इस परिच्छेद का सबसे महत्त्वपूर्ण निहितार्थ है?

UPSC Civil Services (Preliminary) Examination 2018, General Studies Paper II (CSAT), Question 51 — Reading comprehension.

परिच्छेद—3

वैज्ञानिक ज्ञान के अपने संकट हैं लेकिन सभी बड़ी चीजों के साथ ऐसा ही है। उन संकटों के परे, जिनके द्वारा यह ज्ञान वर्तमान को डराता है, एक सम्भावित सुखी विश्व, जो कि गरीबी-रहित है, युद्ध-रहित है, रोगमुक्त है, का भविष्य निरूपण (विजन) करता है, जो और किसी से नहीं हो सकता। विज्ञान के चाहे कोई भी अप्रिय परिणाम हो सकते हों, वह अपनी विशेष प्रकृति में मुक्तिदाता है।

CSAT 2018 · Q51

Reading comprehension X-Ray · Core #1 Medium

निम्नलिखित में से कौन-सा एक इस परिच्छेद का सबसे महत्त्वपूर्ण निहितार्थ है?

Read this question in English

Which one of the following is the most important implication of the passage?

(a) A happy world is a dream of science. · (b) Science only can build a happy world, but it is also the only major threat. · (c) A happy world is not possible without science. · (d) A happy world is not at all possible with or without science.

उत्तर और व्याख्या · explanation in English

Answer: (a) सुखी विश्व विज्ञान का स्वप्न है।

Why not the tempting option · UPSC's key is (a). The tempting (c) leans on 'as nothing else can', but that phrase describes how science opens up the vision; the passage never says a happy world is impossible without science, so (c) states a stricter condition than the text supports. In the exam, keep to the passage's own strength of claim: a 'vision of a possible' world is a dream, not a necessary condition.

Despite its dangers, science 'opens up as nothing else can, the vision of a possible happy world', without poverty, war or much illness, and is 'in its very nature a liberator'. The passage's claim is about a vision, a possibility: a happy world is what science holds out, its dream, so (a).

  • ✓ (a) The passage speaks of the 'vision of a possible happy world' that science opens up; a happy world is the dream science holds out.
  • ✗ (b) Science is never called the only major threat; the passage says every great thing has its dangers.
  • ✗ (c) 'As nothing else can' describes how science opens up the vision; it does not say a happy world is impossible without science. (c) turns a vision into a strict necessary condition the passage never states.
  • ✗ (d) Contradicts the passage, which speaks of a 'possible' happy world.

Remember · When a passage speaks of a 'vision' or 'possibility', prefer the option that keeps that tone over one that states a strict condition.

Question and answer: UPSC's official GS Paper II (2018, Series A) — paper ↗ · answer key ↗. Explanation: Minimalist IAS, checked 1 Oct 2026 (how we verify). ·

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