Directions for questions 1-5: Each of the following questions has a paragraph from which the last sentence has been deleted. From the given options, choose the sentence that completes the paragraph in the most appropriate way

Nevertheless, photographs still retain some of the magical allure that the earliest daguerreotypes inspired. As objects, our photographs have changed; they have become physically flimsier as they have become more technologically sophisticated. Daguerre produced pictures on copper plates; today many of our photographs never become tangible thins, but instead remain filed away on computers and cameras, part of the digital ether that envelops the modern world. At the same time, our patience for the creation of images has also eroded. Children today are used to being tracked from birth by digital cameras and video recorders and they expect to see the results of their poses and performances instantly. The space between life as it is being lived and life as it is being displayed shrinks to a mere second. __________________________

Yet, despite these technical developments, photographs still remain powerful because they are reminders of the people and things we care about.

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Images, after all, are surrogates carried into battle by a soldier or by a traveller on holiday.

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Photographs, be they digital or traditional, exist to remind us of the absent, the beloved, and the dead.

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In the new era of the digital image, the images also have a greater potential for fostering falsehood and trickery, perpetuating fictions that seem so real we cannot tell the difference.

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Solution

The correct option is A Yet, despite these technical developments, photographs still remain powerful because they are reminders of the people and things we care about.
Option (a)

‘Nevertheless ‘at the beginning of the paragraph, and “yet’ at the beginning of option (a) make the paragraph logically complete.Option (a) is the reason why the paragraph is written - to communicate that ‘photographs are still powerful.

The traveler in option (b), the beloved and the dead in option (c) and the falsehood and trickery in option (d) do not help conclude the paragraph.

Hence, the correct answer is option (a).

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