Direction: In this section you have a short passage. After the passage, you will find some items based on the passage. First read the passage and then answer the items based on it. You are required to select your answers based on the contents of the passa

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Direction: In this section you have a short passage. After the passage, you will find some items based on the passage. First read the passage and then answer the items based on it. You are required to select your answers based on the contents of the passage and opinion of the author only. Studies serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability. Their chief use for delight, is in privateness and retiring; for ornament, is in discourse; and for ability, is in the judgment, and disposition of business. For expert men can execute, and perhaps judge of particulars, one by one; but the general counsels, and the plots and marshalling of affairs, come best from those that are learned. To spend too much time in studies is sloth; to use them too much for ornament, is affectation; to make judgement wholly by their rules, is the humor of a scholar. They perfect nature, and are perfected by experience: for natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning, by study; and studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience. Crafty men condemn studies, simple men admire them, and wise men use them; for they teach not their own use; but that is a wisdom without them, and above them, won by observation. Read not to contradict and confute; nor to believe and take for granted; nor to find talk and discourse; but to weigh and consider. According to the author, how can the studies be perfected?

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Science

question_exam: 

NDA-II

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According to the author, studies can be perfected through experience. The author states that studies themselves need to be bounded in by experience in order to give forth directions that are not too vague. This means that while studying is important, it is through the practical application of knowledge and learning from real-life experiences that one can truly perfect their studies.

Reflection (option 1) may be a part of the learning process, but it is not specifically mentioned as a way to perfect studies in the passage. Conversation (option 3) may contribute to learning and understanding, but it is not mentioned as a method to perfect studies. Application (option 2) is closely related to experience, as it implies putting knowledge into practice, but it is not explicitly mentioned by the author.

Therefore, the correct answer is option 4: By experience. The author suggests that studies are perfected by combining knowledge gained through studying with practical experience.