Read the
passage carefully and solve the questions that follow. (Exercise Solving time: 4 minutes)
It isn't
really his brains and bravado, it seems, which has kept Batman alive and afloat
all these years to fight evil. If a team of physicists from the University of
Leicester are to be believed, it is but sheer luck that Batman did not drop to
his death as he went around tackling an assortment of villains. The
culprit, according to the
researchers, is his somewhat faultily designed cape, which might let him glide
across the menacing Gotham City skyline but will not let him land with any
amount of safety. An urgent makeover is the need of the hour, whether it
involves packing in a chute or using propulsion jets.
That researchers are interested
in the flight safety of a cruising Batman liberates the superhero from more
constricting confines, whether it is the covers of a book or the inaccessible
reaches of the cinematic or gaming world. The larger-than-life heroism of
superheroes had always owed to the fact that they could breach the restrictions
of the physical world that felled their human counterparts. If the batman
story-tellers over the ages made him pack a chute (and while we are at it,
maybe a lunchbox and a thermos of decaf coffee?) or asked him to check the
weather conditions or wait at the traffic lights before he took flight, chances
are slim that he would have become the legendary do-gooder that he went on to
become. Fantasy, at its best, is a flight of imagination and yoking mechanical
accuracy to it is an idea whose time may never come.
But now with the research out in the public domain, there is
nothing to prevent imitative efforts from being spawned. What, pray, would be
the exact chemical composition of the web that Spiderman spins, which
guarantees such enormous tensile strength to allow him to swing from one
skyscraper to another? Is there actually a way of creating adamantium, that
indestructible metal alloy that gives Wolverine his prowess? Most of us, hemmed
in by our limited human abilities, will be eagerly waiting for the results.
Which of the following
ideas the author would agree with?
A) Batman
urgently needs a chute to save himself from an imminent landing disaster.
B) The power
of scientific research can strengthen the super heroes.
C) Fantasy consists
of ideas that will be implemented in the future.
D) Paying attention
to details and safety would spoil the effectiveness of Batman stories.
E) Admantium
is the strongest metal on the earth.
F) There
should be a research to find out the chemical composition of the Spiderman web.
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