Read the passage and answer the questions given below it.
On an overnight train to Madurai, the woman in the berth opposite mine wrote for almost an hour by the light of a small torch. Her notebook was fat and cloth-covered. She wrote slowly, now and then striking out a line. For five years I have helped build a note-taking app, so I watched her more closely than was polite.
When I asked, she said she had tried keeping a diary on her phone and given up. On the phone she kept deleting things. On paper a cancelled line is still there, so her second thoughts stay in plain sight. Months later she can look back and see how her mind moved, line by line. I think she has a point that people in my line of work rarely admit. An app is built to make writing smooth. It fixes spellings and saves the neat final version. A diary is not meant to be neat. It is meant to catch you before you have tidied yourself up. Her notebook also has no audience. It sends no reminders and waits for no likes.
None of this makes paper safer. A notebook can be left on a train or soaked in a leaking bag, and anyone can read it. Mine would be locked with a password and copied to the cloud. You also cannot search a stack of old notebooks for the day you first met someone. She agreed about the searching. About the rest she only shrugged and went back to her page, the torch held in her teeth.
Which of the following statements are true according to the passage?
(A) The woman had tried keeping a diary on her phone before.
(B) The writer thinks a notebook is safer than an app because it cannot be hacked.
(C) The woman accepted that old notebooks are hard to search.
(D) The woman stopped writing once the writer pointed out the risks of paper.
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 3
The correct answer is Option (3) → (A) and (C) only
Each statement is checked against the passage.
(A) The woman had tried keeping a diary on her phone before. — Correct.
- She said she had “tried keeping a diary on her phone and given up”.
(B) The writer thinks a notebook is safer than an app because it cannot be hacked. — Incorrect.
- The writer says, “None of this makes paper safer.” The app, not the notebook, is locked with a password.
(C) The woman accepted that old notebooks are hard to search. — Correct.
- “She agreed about the searching.”
(D) The woman stopped writing once the writer pointed out the risks of paper. — Incorrect.
- She only shrugged and “went back to her page”.