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Read the following passage and answer the questions.
The library has become to emulate a space of distinction for what a city has to offer to its citizens in a democratic society, or as Manfrendini stated, public libraries epiotomize some of the few remaining genuine democratic spaces. Throughout history libraries have been affected by political shifts, changing power dynamics, growth and disintegration of empires, built up with gusto and enthusiasm, destroyed by wickedness and neglect. Libraries throughout history can be considered incredibly purposeful and anxiously useless, "channel order and chaos, house both print and digital, old and new, they can control and liberate the knowledge they contain". Libraries can be both an instrument to liberate to oppress and a tool for imperial conquest, assimilation and control. Libraries aim to encompass the whole memory of humankind make them vulnerable to complete erasure. Building where collections are housed can also be demolished, re-designed, or eliminated.
The paragraph projected libraries both as utilitarian and counter productive. Which of the following does not support the idea?
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Download Solution PDFThe Correct answer is Generator and destroyer.
Explanation:
- The paragraph discusses libraries as being both purposeful and potentially harmful, using phrases like "channel order and chaos," "house both print and digital," and "old and new," which support the idea of libraries having both utilitarian and counterproductive aspects.
- These pairs illustrate the contrasting roles libraries can play in society — balancing order and chaos, managing both old and new materials, and housing both print and digital content.
- However, "Generator and destroyer" is not a direct contrast within the context of the paragraph.
- While it mentions libraries being "incredibly purposeful and anxiously useless" and being at risk of "complete erasure," it does not explicitly support the idea of libraries being both a generator and destroyer in the way that the other phrases (order and chaos, print and digital, old and new) do.
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