CAT VARC QUIZ 16

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Question 1:

Direction for Reading Comprehension:- The passage given here are followed by somequestions that have four answer choices; read the passage carefully and pick the option whose answer best aligns with the passage.

Archaeology as a profession faces two major problems. First, it is the process of the poor. Only partly sums are available for excavating and even less is available for publishing the results and preserving the sites once excavated. Yet archaeologists deal with priceless objects every day. Second, there is the problem of illegal excavation, resulting in museum quality pieces being sold to the highest bidder. I would like to make an outrageous suggestion that would at one stroke provide funds for archaeology and reduce the amount of illegal digging. I would propose that scientific archaeological expeditions and governmental authorities sell excavated artifacts on the open market. You might object that professionals excavate to acquire knowledge, not money. Moreover, ancient artifacts are part of our global cultural heritage, which should be available for all to appreciate, not sold to the highest bidder. Sell nothing that unique artistic merit or scientific value. But you might reply, everything that comes out of the ground has scientific value. Theoretically, you may be correct in claiming that every artifact has potential scientific value. The basements of museums are simply not large enough to store the even to catalogue the finds, as a result, they cannot be found again and become as inaccessible as if they had never been discovered in the future. There is not enough money even to catalogue the finds, as a result, they cannot be found again and become as inaccessible as if they had never been discovered. Indeed, with the help of a bulging museum basements. Prior to scale, each could be photographed and the list of the purchaser could be maintained on the computer. A purchaser could even be required to agree to return the piece if it should become needed for scientific purposes.
It would be unrealistic to suggest that illegal digging would stop if artifacts were sold on the open market. But the demand for the clandestine product would be substantially reduce. Who would want an unmarked pot, when another was available, whose provenance was known and that was dated stratigraphically by the professional archaeologist, who excavated it?
The author anticipates which of the following initial objection to the adoption of his proposal?
Direction for Reading Comprehension:- The passage given here are followed by somequestions that have four answer choices; read the passage carefully and pick the option whose answer best aligns with the passage.

Archaeology as a profession faces two major problems. First, it is the process of the poor. Only partly sums are available for excavating and even less is available for publishing the results and preserving the sites once excavated. Yet archaeologists deal with priceless objects every day. Second, there is the problem of illegal excavation, resulting in museum quality pieces being sold to the highest bidder. I would like to make an outrageous suggestion that would at one stroke provide funds for archaeology and reduce the amount of illegal digging. I would propose that scientific archaeological expeditions and governmental authorities sell excavated artifacts on the open market. You might object that professionals excavate to acquire knowledge, not money. Moreover, ancient artifacts are part of our global cultural heritage, which should be available for all to appreciate, not sold to the highest bidder. Sell nothing that unique artistic merit or scientific value. But you might reply, everything that comes out of the ground has scientific value. Theoretically, you may be correct in claiming that every artifact has potential scientific value. The basements of museums are simply not large enough to store the even to catalogue the finds, as a result, they cannot be found again and become as inaccessible as if they had never been discovered in the future. There is not enough money even to catalogue the finds, as a result, they cannot be found again and become as inaccessible as if they had never been discovered. Indeed, with the help of a bulging museum basements. Prior to scale, each could be photographed and the list of the purchaser could be maintained on the computer. A purchaser could even be required to agree to return the piece if it should become needed for scientific purposes.
It would be unrealistic to suggest that illegal digging would stop if artifacts were sold on the open market. But the demand for the clandestine product would be substantially reduce. Who would want an unmarked pot, when another was available, whose provenance was known and that was dated stratigraphically by the professional archaeologist, who excavated it?

Question 2:

Direction for Reading Comprehension:- The passage given here are followed by some question that have four answer choices; read the passage carefully and pick the option whose answer best aligns with the passage.


If a biographer wanted to write about a spectacular comeback from notoriety to respectability and the tenuous natures of comebacks, a good subject might be nicotine.

After denouncing nicotine for its highly addictive properties, which hook people on tobacco, scientists have begun to rehabilitate it, not only as a means of helping smokers to break their habit, but also as a potential treatment for a variety of other disorders, including stress, the intestinal condition ulcerative colitis. Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease etc.

Nicotine replacement products developed to help people quit smoking used to consist only of chewing gum and skin patches, but now a nasal spray is available by prescription, as well as a product called an inhaler, which is really a fake cigarette made of plastic that a person sucks to get a dose of menthol-flavoured nicotine into the mouth and throat, but not the lungs. In addition,doctors are awaiting the approval of a nicotine tablet that patients are to dissolve under their tongues to help fight their craving. In all the products, the nicotine is extracted from tobacco leaves.

But just as nicotine approaches the edges of respectability, a few researchers have begun to raise caution flags. Although all agree that replacement nicotine is safer than smoking and worth some risk if it helps a person quit, a few are beginning to worry that some smokers are using nicotine products not just for the short periods the products were designed for, but for years. They fear this use will only increase if nicotine products proliferate and if more become available over the counter, as the patches and gum already are. And if nicotine or drugs chemically related to it do come into use to treat chronic diseases, the researchers say, there may be important side effects to take into consideration.

The author organises the passage by

Direction for Reading Comprehension:- The passage given here are followed by some question that have four answer choices; read the passage carefully and pick the option whose answer best aligns with the passage.

If a biographer wanted to write about a spectacular comeback from notoriety to respectability and the tenuous natures of comebacks, a good subject might be nicotine.
After denouncing nicotine for its highly addictive properties, which hook people on tobacco, scientists have begun to rehabilitate it, not only as a means of helping smokers to break their habit, but also as a potential treatment for a variety of other disorders, including stress, the intestinal condition ulcerative colitis. Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease etc.
Nicotine replacement products developed to help people quit smoking used to consist only of chewing gum and skin patches, but now a nasal spray is available by prescription, as well as a product called an inhaler, which is really a fake cigarette made of plastic that a person sucks to get a dose of menthol-flavoured nicotine into the mouth and throat, but not the lungs. In addition,doctors are awaiting the approval of a nicotine tablet that patients are to dissolve under their tongues to help fight their craving. In all the products, the nicotine is extracted from tobacco leaves.
But just as nicotine approaches the edges of respectability, a few researchers have begun to raise caution flags. Although all agree that replacement nicotine is safer than smoking and worth some risk if it helps a person quit, a few are beginning to worry that some smokers are using nicotine products not just for the short periods the products were designed for, but for years. They fear this use will only increase if nicotine products proliferate and if more become available over the counter, as the patches and gum already are. And if nicotine or drugs chemically related to it do come into use to treat chronic diseases, the researchers say, there may be important side effects to take into consideration.

Question 3:

Directions :- The five sentences labelled (A),(B),(C),(D),(E) below, when properly sequenced would yield a coherent paragraph. Decide on the proper sequencing of the order of the sentences and key in the sequence of the five numbers as your answer. 

(A).For he married for the fourth time when he was over forty.

(B).His loyalty to the state was well known.

(C ).But he was incorruptible and had earned a name for strict impartiality in his family as well as outside.

 (D).My father was a lover of his clan, truthful, brave and generous, but short tempered.

(E).To a certain extent he might have been given to carnal pleasures.

Question 4:

Direction for Reading Comprehension:- The passage given here are followed by somequestions that have four answer choices; read the passage carefully and pick the option whose answer best aligns with the passage.


Archaeology as a profession faces two major problems. First, it is the process of the poor. Only partly sums are available for excavating and even less is available for publishing the results and preserving the sites once excavated. Yet archaeologists deal with priceless objects every day. Second, there is the problem of illegal excavation, resulting in museum quality pieces being sold to the highest bidder. I would like to make an outrageous suggestion that would at one stroke provide funds for archaeology and reduce the amount of illegal digging. I would propose that scientific archaeological expeditions and governmental authorities sell excavated artifacts on the open market. You might object that professionals excavate to acquire knowledge, not money. Moreover, ancient artifacts are part of our global cultural heritage, which should be available for all to appreciate, not sold to the highest bidder. Sell nothing that unique artistic merit or scientific value. But you might reply, everything that comes out of the ground has scientific value. Theoretically, you may be correct in claiming that every artifact has potential scientific value. The basements of museums are simply not large enough to store the even to catalogue the finds, as a result, they cannot be found again and become as inaccessible as if they had never been discovered in the future. There is not enough money even to catalogue the finds, as a result, they cannot be found again and become as inaccessible as if they had never been discovered. Indeed, with the help of a bulging museum basements. Prior to scale, each could be photographed and the list of the purchaser could be maintained on the computer. A purchaser could even be required to agree to return the piece if it should become needed for scientific purposes.

It would be unrealistic to suggest that illegal digging would stop if artifacts were sold on the open market. But the demand for the clandestine product would be substantially reduce. Who would want an unmarked pot, when another was available, whose provenance was known and that was dated stratigraphically by the professional archaeologist, who excavated it?

The primary purpose of the passage is to propose

Direction for Reading Comprehension:- The passage given here are followed by somequestions that have four answer choices; read the passage carefully and pick the option whose answer best aligns with the passage.

Archaeology as a profession faces two major problems. First, it is the process of the poor. Only partly sums are available for excavating and even less is available for publishing the results and preserving the sites once excavated. Yet archaeologists deal with priceless objects every day. Second, there is the problem of illegal excavation, resulting in museum quality pieces being sold to the highest bidder. I would like to make an outrageous suggestion that would at one stroke provide funds for archaeology and reduce the amount of illegal digging. I would propose that scientific archaeological expeditions and governmental authorities sell excavated artifacts on the open market. You might object that professionals excavate to acquire knowledge, not money. Moreover, ancient artifacts are part of our global cultural heritage, which should be available for all to appreciate, not sold to the highest bidder. Sell nothing that unique artistic merit or scientific value. But you might reply, everything that comes out of the ground has scientific value. Theoretically, you may be correct in claiming that every artifact has potential scientific value. The basements of museums are simply not large enough to store the even to catalogue the finds, as a result, they cannot be found again and become as inaccessible as if they had never been discovered in the future. There is not enough money even to catalogue the finds, as a result, they cannot be found again and become as inaccessible as if they had never been discovered. Indeed, with the help of a bulging museum basements. Prior to scale, each could be photographed and the list of the purchaser could be maintained on the computer. A purchaser could even be required to agree to return the piece if it should become needed for scientific purposes.
It would be unrealistic to suggest that illegal digging would stop if artifacts were sold on the open market. But the demand for the clandestine product would be substantially reduce. Who would want an unmarked pot, when another was available, whose provenance was known and that was dated stratigraphically by the professional archaeologist, who excavated it?

Question 5:

Direction :- The five sentences labelled (A),(B),(C),(D),(E) below, when properly sequenced would yield a coherent paragraph. Decide on the proper sequencing of the order of the sentences and key in the sequence of the five numbers as your answer. 


 (A).Some say that power is the ability to exert influence beyond those one actually controls.

 (B).All of these definitions can be grouped together under one broader one: Power is the ability to exert influence - whether on an individual or an organisation - to obtain a desired outcome.

(C).Power means different things to different people.

 (D).Others maintain that power boils down to the ability to get what one wants.

(E).Considering that we need income to obtain the things that we need or want, power could also be loosely defined as the ability to provide employment in order to derive an income.

Question 6:

Direction for Reading Comprehension:- The passage given here are followed by somequestions that have four answer choices; read the passage carefully and pick the option whose answer best aligns with the passage.

Archaeology as a profession faces two major problems. First, it is the process of the poor. Only partly sums are available for excavating and even less is available for publishing the results and preserving the sites once excavated. Yet archaeologists deal with priceless objects every day. Second, there is the problem of illegal excavation, resulting in museum quality pieces being sold to the highest bidder. I would like to make an outrageous suggestion that would at one stroke provide funds for archaeology and reduce the amount of illegal digging. I would propose that scientific archaeological expeditions and governmental authorities sell excavated artifacts on the open market. You might object that professionals excavate to acquire knowledge, not money. Moreover, ancient artifacts are part of our global cultural heritage, which should be available for all to appreciate, not sold to the highest bidder. Sell nothing that unique artistic merit or scientific value. But you might reply, everything that comes out of the ground has scientific value. Theoretically, you may be correct in claiming that every artifact has potential scientific value. The basements of museums are simply not large enough to store the even to catalogue the finds, as a result, they cannot be found again and become as inaccessible as if they had never been discovered in the future. There is not enough money even to catalogue the finds, as a result, they cannot be found again and become as inaccessible as if they had never been discovered. Indeed, with the help of a bulging museum basements. Prior to scale, each could be photographed and the list of the purchaser could be maintained on the computer. A purchaser could even be required to agree to return the piece if it should become needed for scientific purposes.
It would be unrealistic to suggest that illegal digging would stop if artifacts were sold on the open market. But the demand for the clandestine product would be substantially reduce. Who would want an unmarked pot, when another was available, whose provenance was known and that was dated stratigraphically by the professional archaeologist, who excavated it?
The author’s argument concerning the effect of the official sale of duplicate artifacts on illegal excavation is based on which of the following assumptions ?
Direction for Reading Comprehension:- The passage given here are followed by somequestions that have four answer choices; read the passage carefully and pick the option whose answer best aligns with the passage.

Archaeology as a profession faces two major problems. First, it is the process of the poor. Only partly sums are available for excavating and even less is available for publishing the results and preserving the sites once excavated. Yet archaeologists deal with priceless objects every day. Second, there is the problem of illegal excavation, resulting in museum quality pieces being sold to the highest bidder. I would like to make an outrageous suggestion that would at one stroke provide funds for archaeology and reduce the amount of illegal digging. I would propose that scientific archaeological expeditions and governmental authorities sell excavated artifacts on the open market. You might object that professionals excavate to acquire knowledge, not money. Moreover, ancient artifacts are part of our global cultural heritage, which should be available for all to appreciate, not sold to the highest bidder. Sell nothing that unique artistic merit or scientific value. But you might reply, everything that comes out of the ground has scientific value. Theoretically, you may be correct in claiming that every artifact has potential scientific value. The basements of museums are simply not large enough to store the even to catalogue the finds, as a result, they cannot be found again and become as inaccessible as if they had never been discovered in the future. There is not enough money even to catalogue the finds, as a result, they cannot be found again and become as inaccessible as if they had never been discovered. Indeed, with the help of a bulging museum basements. Prior to scale, each could be photographed and the list of the purchaser could be maintained on the computer. A purchaser could even be required to agree to return the piece if it should become needed for scientific purposes.
It would be unrealistic to suggest that illegal digging would stop if artifacts were sold on the open market. But the demand for the clandestine product would be substantially reduce. Who would want an unmarked pot, when another was available, whose provenance was known and that was dated stratigraphically by the professional archaeologist, who excavated it?

Question 7:

Direction for Reading Comprehension:- The passage given here are followed by some question that have four answer choices; read the passage carefully and pick the option whose answer best aligns with the passage.

If a biographer wanted to write about a spectacular comeback from notoriety to respectability and the tenuous natures of comebacks, a good subject might be nicotine.
After denouncing nicotine for its highly addictive properties, which hook people on tobacco, scientists have begun to rehabilitate it, not only as a means of helping smokers to break their habit, but also as a potential treatment for a variety of other disorders, including stress, the intestinal condition ulcerative colitis. Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease etc.
Nicotine replacement products developed to help people quit smoking used to consist only of chewing gum and skin patches, but now a nasal spray is available by prescription, as well as a product called an inhaler, which is really a fake cigarette made of plastic that a person sucks to get a dose of menthol-flavoured nicotine into the mouth and throat, but not the lungs. In addition,doctors are awaiting the approval of a nicotine tablet that patients are to dissolve under their tongues to help fight their craving. In all the products, the nicotine is extracted from tobacco leaves.
But just as nicotine approaches the edges of respectability, a few researchers have begun to raise caution flags. Although all agree that replacement nicotine is safer than smoking and worth some risk if it helps a person quit, a few are beginning to worry that some smokers are using nicotine products not just for the short periods the products were designed for, but for years. They fear this use will only increase if nicotine products proliferate and if more become available over the counter, as the patches and gum already are. And if nicotine or drugs chemically related to it do come into use to treat chronic diseases, the researchers say, there may be important side effects to take into consideration.
Following the information in the passage, a rehabilitation counsellor would recommend nicotine to break the habit of smoking with
Direction for Reading Comprehension:- The passage given here are followed by some question that have four answer choices; read the passage carefully and pick the option whose answer best aligns with the passage.

If a biographer wanted to write about a spectacular comeback from notoriety to respectability and the tenuous natures of comebacks, a good subject might be nicotine.
After denouncing nicotine for its highly addictive properties, which hook people on tobacco, scientists have begun to rehabilitate it, not only as a means of helping smokers to break their habit, but also as a potential treatment for a variety of other disorders, including stress, the intestinal condition ulcerative colitis. Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease etc.
Nicotine replacement products developed to help people quit smoking used to consist only of chewing gum and skin patches, but now a nasal spray is available by prescription, as well as a product called an inhaler, which is really a fake cigarette made of plastic that a person sucks to get a dose of menthol-flavoured nicotine into the mouth and throat, but not the lungs. In addition,doctors are awaiting the approval of a nicotine tablet that patients are to dissolve under their tongues to help fight their craving. In all the products, the nicotine is extracted from tobacco leaves.
But just as nicotine approaches the edges of respectability, a few researchers have begun to raise caution flags. Although all agree that replacement nicotine is safer than smoking and worth some risk if it helps a person quit, a few are beginning to worry that some smokers are using nicotine products not just for the short periods the products were designed for, but for years. They fear this use will only increase if nicotine products proliferate and if more become available over the counter, as the patches and gum already are. And if nicotine or drugs chemically related to it do come into use to treat chronic diseases, the researchers say, there may be important side effects to take into consideration.

Question 8:

Direction for Reading Comprehension:- The passage given here are followed by some question that have four answer choices; read the passage carefully and pick the option whose answer best aligns with the passage.


If a biographer wanted to write about a spectacular comeback from notoriety to respectability and the tenuous natures of comebacks, a good subject might be nicotine.

After denouncing nicotine for its highly addictive properties, which hook people on tobacco, scientists have begun to rehabilitate it, not only as a means of helping smokers to break their habit, but also as a potential treatment for a variety of other disorders, including stress, the intestinal condition ulcerative colitis. Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease etc.

Nicotine replacement products developed to help people quit smoking used to consist only of chewing gum and skin patches, but now a nasal spray is available by prescription, as well as a product called an inhaler, which is really a fake cigarette made of plastic that a person sucks to get a dose of menthol-flavoured nicotine into the mouth and throat, but not the lungs. In addition,doctors are awaiting the approval of a nicotine tablet that patients are to dissolve under their tongues to help fight their craving. In all the products, the nicotine is extracted from tobacco leaves.

But just as nicotine approaches the edges of respectability, a few researchers have begun to raise caution flags. Although all agree that replacement nicotine is safer than smoking and worth some risk if it helps a person quit, a few are beginning to worry that some smokers are using nicotine products not just for the short periods the products were designed for, but for years. They fear this use will only increase if nicotine products proliferate and if more become available over the counter, as the patches and gum already are. And if nicotine or drugs chemically related to it do come into use to treat chronic diseases, the researchers say, there may be important side effects to take into consideration.

If the assertions in the last paragraph are true, which of the following can be inferred?

Direction for Reading Comprehension:- The passage given here are followed by some question that have four answer choices; read the passage carefully and pick the option whose answer best aligns with the passage.

If a biographer wanted to write about a spectacular comeback from notoriety to respectability and the tenuous natures of comebacks, a good subject might be nicotine.
After denouncing nicotine for its highly addictive properties, which hook people on tobacco, scientists have begun to rehabilitate it, not only as a means of helping smokers to break their habit, but also as a potential treatment for a variety of other disorders, including stress, the intestinal condition ulcerative colitis. Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease etc.
Nicotine replacement products developed to help people quit smoking used to consist only of chewing gum and skin patches, but now a nasal spray is available by prescription, as well as a product called an inhaler, which is really a fake cigarette made of plastic that a person sucks to get a dose of menthol-flavoured nicotine into the mouth and throat, but not the lungs. In addition,doctors are awaiting the approval of a nicotine tablet that patients are to dissolve under their tongues to help fight their craving. In all the products, the nicotine is extracted from tobacco leaves.
But just as nicotine approaches the edges of respectability, a few researchers have begun to raise caution flags. Although all agree that replacement nicotine is safer than smoking and worth some risk if it helps a person quit, a few are beginning to worry that some smokers are using nicotine products not just for the short periods the products were designed for, but for years. They fear this use will only increase if nicotine products proliferate and if more become available over the counter, as the patches and gum already are. And if nicotine or drugs chemically related to it do come into use to treat chronic diseases, the researchers say, there may be important side effects to take into consideration.

Question 9:

Direction for Reading Comprehension:- The passage given here are followed by somequestions that have four answer choices; read the passage carefully and pick the option whose answer best aligns with the passage.

Archaeology as a profession faces two major problems. First, it is the process of the poor. Only partly sums are available for excavating and even less is available for publishing the results and preserving the sites once excavated. Yet archaeologists deal with priceless objects every day. Second, there is the problem of illegal excavation, resulting in museum quality pieces being sold to the highest bidder. I would like to make an outrageous suggestion that would at one stroke provide funds for archaeology and reduce the amount of illegal digging. I would propose that scientific archaeological expeditions and governmental authorities sell excavated artifacts on the open market. You might object that professionals excavate to acquire knowledge, not money. Moreover, ancient artifacts are part of our global cultural heritage, which should be available for all to appreciate, not sold to the highest bidder. Sell nothing that unique artistic merit or scientific value. But you might reply, everything that comes out of the ground has scientific value. Theoretically, you may be correct in claiming that every artifact has potential scientific value. The basements of museums are simply not large enough to store the even to catalogue the finds, as a result, they cannot be found again and become as inaccessible as if they had never been discovered in the future. There is not enough money even to catalogue the finds, as a result, they cannot be found again and become as inaccessible as if they had never been discovered. Indeed, with the help of a bulging museum basements. Prior to scale, each could be photographed and the list of the purchaser could be maintained on the computer. A purchaser could even be required to agree to return the piece if it should become needed for scientific purposes.
It would be unrealistic to suggest that illegal digging would stop if artifacts were sold on the open market. But the demand for the clandestine product would be substantially reduce. Who would want an unmarked pot, when another was available, whose provenance was known and that was dated stratigraphically by the professional archaeologist, who excavated it?
The author implies that all of the following statements about duplicate artifacts are true except
Direction for Reading Comprehension:- The passage given here are followed by somequestions that have four answer choices; read the passage carefully and pick the option whose answer best aligns with the passage.

Archaeology as a profession faces two major problems. First, it is the process of the poor. Only partly sums are available for excavating and even less is available for publishing the results and preserving the sites once excavated. Yet archaeologists deal with priceless objects every day. Second, there is the problem of illegal excavation, resulting in museum quality pieces being sold to the highest bidder. I would like to make an outrageous suggestion that would at one stroke provide funds for archaeology and reduce the amount of illegal digging. I would propose that scientific archaeological expeditions and governmental authorities sell excavated artifacts on the open market. You might object that professionals excavate to acquire knowledge, not money. Moreover, ancient artifacts are part of our global cultural heritage, which should be available for all to appreciate, not sold to the highest bidder. Sell nothing that unique artistic merit or scientific value. But you might reply, everything that comes out of the ground has scientific value. Theoretically, you may be correct in claiming that every artifact has potential scientific value. The basements of museums are simply not large enough to store the even to catalogue the finds, as a result, they cannot be found again and become as inaccessible as if they had never been discovered in the future. There is not enough money even to catalogue the finds, as a result, they cannot be found again and become as inaccessible as if they had never been discovered. Indeed, with the help of a bulging museum basements. Prior to scale, each could be photographed and the list of the purchaser could be maintained on the computer. A purchaser could even be required to agree to return the piece if it should become needed for scientific purposes.
It would be unrealistic to suggest that illegal digging would stop if artifacts were sold on the open market. But the demand for the clandestine product would be substantially reduce. Who would want an unmarked pot, when another was available, whose provenance was known and that was dated stratigraphically by the professional archaeologist, who excavated it?

Question 10:

Direction for Reading Comprehension:- The passage given here are followed by somequestions that have four answer choices; read the passage carefully and pick the option whose answer best aligns with the passage.


Archaeology as a profession faces two major problems. First, it is the process of the poor. Only partly sums are available for excavating and even less is available for publishing the results and preserving the sites once excavated. Yet archaeologists deal with priceless objects every day. Second, there is the problem of illegal excavation, resulting in museum quality pieces being sold to the highest bidder. I would like to make an outrageous suggestion that would at one stroke provide funds for archaeology and reduce the amount of illegal digging. I would propose that scientific archaeological expeditions and governmental authorities sell excavated artifacts on the open market. You might object that professionals excavate to acquire knowledge, not money. Moreover, ancient artifacts are part of our global cultural heritage, which should be available for all to appreciate, not sold to the highest bidder. Sell nothing that unique artistic merit or scientific value. But you might reply, everything that comes out of the ground has scientific value. Theoretically, you may be correct in claiming that every artifact has potential scientific value. The basements of museums are simply not large enough to store the even to catalogue the finds, as a result, they cannot be found again and become as inaccessible as if they had never been discovered in the future. There is not enough money even to catalogue the finds, as a result, they cannot be found again and become as inaccessible as if they had never been discovered. Indeed, with the help of a bulging museum basements. Prior to scale, each could be photographed and the list of the purchaser could be maintained on the computer. A purchaser could even be required to agree to return the piece if it should become needed for scientific purposes.

It would be unrealistic to suggest that illegal digging would stop if artifacts were sold on the open market. But the demand for the clandestine product would be substantially reduce. Who would want an unmarked pot, when another was available, whose provenance was known and that was dated stratigraphically by the professional archaeologist, who excavated it?

Which of the following is mentioned in the passage as a disadvantage of storing artifacts in museum basements?

Direction for Reading Comprehension:- The passage given here are followed by somequestions that have four answer choices; read the passage carefully and pick the option whose answer best aligns with the passage.

Archaeology as a profession faces two major problems. First, it is the process of the poor. Only partly sums are available for excavating and even less is available for publishing the results and preserving the sites once excavated. Yet archaeologists deal with priceless objects every day. Second, there is the problem of illegal excavation, resulting in museum quality pieces being sold to the highest bidder. I would like to make an outrageous suggestion that would at one stroke provide funds for archaeology and reduce the amount of illegal digging. I would propose that scientific archaeological expeditions and governmental authorities sell excavated artifacts on the open market. You might object that professionals excavate to acquire knowledge, not money. Moreover, ancient artifacts are part of our global cultural heritage, which should be available for all to appreciate, not sold to the highest bidder. Sell nothing that unique artistic merit or scientific value. But you might reply, everything that comes out of the ground has scientific value. Theoretically, you may be correct in claiming that every artifact has potential scientific value. The basements of museums are simply not large enough to store the even to catalogue the finds, as a result, they cannot be found again and become as inaccessible as if they had never been discovered in the future. There is not enough money even to catalogue the finds, as a result, they cannot be found again and become as inaccessible as if they had never been discovered. Indeed, with the help of a bulging museum basements. Prior to scale, each could be photographed and the list of the purchaser could be maintained on the computer. A purchaser could even be required to agree to return the piece if it should become needed for scientific purposes.
It would be unrealistic to suggest that illegal digging would stop if artifacts were sold on the open market. But the demand for the clandestine product would be substantially reduce. Who would want an unmarked pot, when another was available, whose provenance was known and that was dated stratigraphically by the professional archaeologist, who excavated it?
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