Read the following passage and answer the question that follows:
Knowledge has many forms and it is available at many places. It is acquired through education, information, intelligence and experience. It is available in academic institutions, with teachers, in libraries, in research papers, seminar proceedings and in various organizations and workplaces with workers, managers, in drawings, in process sheets and on the shop floors. Knowledge, though closely linked to education, comes equally from learning skills such as those possessed by our artists, craftsmen, hakims, vaidyas, philosophers and saints, as also our housewives. Knowledge plays a very important role in their performance and output too. Our heritage and history, the rituals, epics and traditions that form part our consciousness are also vast resources of knowledge as are our libraries and universities. There is an abundance of unorthodox, earthy wisdom in our villages. There are hidden treasures of knowledge in our environment, in the oceans, bioreserves and deserts, in the plant and animal life. Every state in our country has a unique core competence for a knowledge society.
In the author's opinion, knowledge is available :
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 3
The correct answer is Option (3) → All activities of daily life
The passage opens with "Knowledge has many forms and it is available at many places" and then names schools, libraries, workplaces, shop floors, artists and housewives, villages, heritage, and the natural world. Knowledge is found in every sphere of daily life.
Why the Other Options are Incorrect?
Option 1: Only in books — Incorrect. Too narrow: libraries are just one of the many places named.
Option 2: In the company of intelligent people — Incorrect. Wrong link: intelligence is named as a means of acquiring knowledge, but the passage does not say knowledge lies in the company of intelligent people.
Option 4: Only in our heritage and history — Incorrect. Too narrow: heritage and history are called "vast resources of knowledge", but they are one source among many; "only" makes the option false.