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.
How is knowledge hidden in nature?
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 3
The correct answer is Option (3) → Oceans, deserts, plants and animal life teach us lessons about life.
The passage says there are "hidden treasures of knowledge in our environment": in the oceans, bioreserves and deserts, and in plant and animal life. The option names these very sources.
Why the Other Options are Incorrect?
Option 1: Nature hides many secrets in itself. — Incorrect. Too broad: it only restates the question in vague words and does not say where the knowledge lies.
Option 2: Observing nature can help us see the inter-relation. — Incorrect. Not mentioned: the passage says nothing about inter-relations in nature.
Option 4: The desert teaches us how to overcome challenges. — Incorrect. Too narrow: the desert is only one of the places listed, and overcoming challenges is not mentioned.