Read the passage given below and answer the questions that follow : On 15…
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Read the passage given below and answer the questions that follow :
On 15 January 2009, several interesting things happened. A plane crash landed into the Hudson River, right in the middle of New York City. The pilot, crew and 155 passengers escaped safely. But then, something else happened... Jim was nearby and watched the event happen. He immediately tweeted that he had just seen a plane crash in the Hudson. From there the news spread quickly. People contacted him immediately and asked him what was happening, and other people on the street took photos and videos with their phones and posted them online. Ordinary people suddenly became journalists. It was 15 minutes before the news broke on official news channels.
Photos, videos and tweets from ordinary people at the scene of dramatic events now provide the words and images that describe events in the news. When a meteor exploded over a Russian city in 2013, millions of people around the world watched videos and photos of the event on Facebook and YouTube. Social media can also save lives. In January 2010, an earthquake hit the Caribbean island of Haiti. The government said that there had been an earthquake, but they didn’t give many details at first. Meanwhile, people living in the disaster area were posting photos and eye witness accounts on Twitter and Facebook and telling the world that it was an emergency and houses were collapsing. A local radio presenter used this information to help people find family members, and people even phoned his program to ask if their relatives were safe.
News travels fast on social media, but false stories spread just as quickly as the truth. Some of these “facts” are erroneous, others are deliberate hoaxes. Hoaxes remind us that not everything people post and publish is reliable. But social media can change our lives for the better.
The meteor explosion in 2013 in Russia was watched by people on :
Answer: D. Facebook and YouTube — Concept: A literal-comprehension question is answered by locating the exact fact the passage states about the specific event asked about — not a fact from a…
- A.
Twitter
- B.
YouTube
- C.
All social media handles
- D.
Facebook and YouTube
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Correct answer: D
Concept: A literal-comprehension question is answered by locating the exact fact the passage states about the specific event asked about — not a fact from a different part of the passage, not a partial match, and not a claim broader than what the text actually says.
Application: The passage’s second paragraph states: “When a meteor exploded over a Russian city in 2013, millions of people around the world watched videos and photos of the event on Facebook and YouTube.” This sentence names exactly two platforms for the meteor event.
Cross-check: Checking each option against this exact sentence:
Twitter is tied elsewhere in the passage to Jim's tweet about the Hudson River plane crash and to the Haiti earthquake reports — not to the meteor sentence.
YouTube alone names only one of the two platforms the sentence gives together.
“All social media handles” sweeps in social media at large, whereas the sentence names two specific services for this event.
“Facebook and YouTube” reproduces the sentence’s own wording exactly, naming both platforms together.