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Question:

Read the following sentences:

A historian successfully predicted a political crisis based on similar events of the last century.
Using the latest technology, doctors could decipher the disease-causing microbe.
Students who prepared themselves by perusing the question papers of past 10 years did not do well in the examination.
A tribe in Andaman learns to predict epidemic outbreaks after listening to stories of how their ancestors used to predict outbreaks in the past.

Which of the statements above, if true, would contradict the view of the author?

Explanation:

This question is based on the predictive power that science holds, but history does not. The writer states this difference between Physics and History at the beginning of the passage. An option that asserts that History too can have predictive power will contradict the argument put forward by the writer. Options 1 and 4 do this. Option 2 merely describes how science works– it neither contradicts nor supports the author’s point of view. Option 3 supports the writer’s point of view.
Hence, the correct answer is option 4.

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