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प्रश्न
Find words from the passage which are antonyms of the following.
- artificially (para 1)
- strength (para 2)
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उत्तर
- naturally
- feebleness
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Humans have long been fascinated by fiction. We experience excitement in assigning supernatural power to imaginary characters in fictional stories – and so we have Spider man, Batman, He–man, Titans and many more. The ‘Cyborg’ was an offshoot of such wild imagination of humans to invest our species with superhuman powers. Today, the Cyborg is no more an imaginary organism. We are living in a world where a sizeable population of humans have merged their bodies with technological implants. The term ‘Cyborg’, short for ‘cybernetic organism’, was coined to describe a man, whose body is implanted with technological devices to supplement and substitute body functions.
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a) Account for the popularity of characters with supernatural powers.
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j) Find out the word which is the antonym of ‘natural’ in para 3.
