Direction: In this section you have a short passage. After the passage, you will find some items based on the passage. First read the passage and then answer the items based on it. You are required to select your answers based on the contents of the passa

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Direction: In this section you have a short passage. After the passage, you will find some items based on the passage. First read the passage and then answer the items based on it. You are required to select your answers based on the contents of the passage and opinion of the author only. Studies serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability. Their chief use for delight, is in privateness and retiring; for ornament, is in discourse; and for ability, is in the judgment, and disposition of business. For expert men can execute, and perhaps judge of particulars, one by one; but the general counsels, and the plots and marshalling of affairs, come best from those that are learned. To spend too much time in studies is sloth; to use them too much for ornament, is affectation; to make judgement wholly by their rules, is the humor of a scholar. They perfect nature, and are perfected by experience: for natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning, by study; and studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience. Crafty men condemn studies, simple men admire them, and wise men use them; for they teach not their own use; but that is a wisdom without them, and above them, won by observation. Read not to contradict and confute; nor to believe and take for granted; nor to find talk and discourse; but to weigh and consider. Which kind of human beings denounce studies?

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Science

question_exam: 

NDA-II

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The correct answer is option 2: Cunning. According to the passage, "Crafty men condemn studies." This means that people who are crafty or cunning, typically do not value or support the pursuit of studies. The passage also states that simple men admire studies and wise men use them, indicating that cunning individuals have a negative view of studies compared to those who are simple or wise. Therefore, the correct answer is option 2, cunning. It is important to note that the passage does not provide an explanation for why cunning individuals denounce studies, but simply states that they do.

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