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Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions in your own word : 

One of the greatest advances on modern technology has been invention of computers. They are used on large scale in industry, education and every aspect of life. They can carry out complex mathematical functions and other types of work because they work accurated at high speeds. They also save research workers years of hard work. This whole process by which machines can be used to work for us has been called automation. Man may not worry that machines will control them. Machines may learn from their performances, but as they have no thinking power, they can only operate with instructions from man. 

(i) Which is the greatest advances of modern technology and why? 

(ii) How can a computer operate? 

(iii) Why is computer used to solve complex mathematical functions and other type of work? 

(iv) Which work in this passage means 'the use of automatic equipment in industry'. 

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(i) Computer is one of greatest advances of modern technology because it is used on large scale in industry, education and every aspect of life.  

(ii) A computer can operate with instruction from man. 

(iii) Computer is used to solve complex mathematical functions and other type of work because it works accurately at high speed and saves time. 

 (iv) The word is 'automation'.

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