Multiple choice

The tone of the author is

Directions: Read the following passage and answer the question.
Superstition gives us the freedom to connect everything, even things little known to us. People foresee their future in the planets, some dates are auspicious, some not. We fear these things because their effects, if there are any, are little known. We cannot peek into or relate much to the future; so we are superstitious about it.
If we cannot learn about a relationship, does that mean it does not exist? On seeing a tiger, our sight accepts its existence and on hearing its roar also the existence of tiger can be accepted. So we as human beings have a marked correlation mechanism. But our knowledge is limited. Whatever our sense of assessment of correlations, there can always be a new amazing insight in connection with the idea. We cannot say we have evolved with the perfect and satisfactory derivation, as all our knowing is also limited.
All Aristotelian, Newtonian works and physical theories divulge connections which were unimagined before their revelation. Such people developed new tools to establish connectivity and slowly developed a theory in the bargain.
So we can say, probably all superstitions could turn tomorrow’s science given the right treatment. Relationships of Earth with the moon, the sun, the planets were all based on superstitions in pre historic times but people worked on these superstitions and slowly a real relation based on science was derived.

  1. descriptive

  2. conciliatory

  3. disputative

  4. logical

  5. progressive

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B Correct answer
Explanation

Correct. The author is trying to reconcile the apparent dichotomy between superstition and science.