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" Meanwhile, he began writing a paper about his
findings, although apparently without much
support from Harald Friis, his supervisor. In
(45) another letter Jansky wrote: “My records show
that this static comes from a direction fixed in
space. The evidence I have is conclusive and, I
think, very startling. When I first suggested the
idea of publishing something about it to Friis, he
(50) was somewhat skeptical and wanted more data.
Frankly, I think he was scared.”
Thus it is that Jansky’s 1933 paper, one of the
most important in the astronomy of this century,
has the relatively cautious title “Electrical Distur­-
(55) bances Apparently of Extraterrestrial Origin.”

  1. What does Passage 1 suggest about the title of Jansky's 1933 paper (lines 52-55) ?

(a) It was entirely misleading.
(b) It did not convey the discovery’s impor­tance.
© It was unacceptable to Friis.
(d) It would have been comprehensible only to engineers.
(e) It made light of an important problem emerging in science.

I’m not getting sure what to choose, it’s so vague. Can anybody explain the answer for me?

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is correct answer is B ?

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I agree. The paper had startling findings, but Jansky was “cautious” and toned down the title. It doesn’t convey the paper’s importance.

Could you have eliminated any answers?

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because Jansky knew that more data should be added to publish his finding as Friis suggested, he was so cautious about title of his funding that he gave not clear title instead of extreme title.
so correct answer is B: the title did not convey the discovery’s importance because he was cautious about giving balanced title.
you can also find correct answer by eliminating wrong ones.
A is incorrect since passage does not state that the title was misleading, but it states that he gave somewhat balanced title.
C is not correct. we don’t know if the title was acceptable to Friis, but we do know that the funding was unacceptable to Friis because funding had not enough data
you can not choose D and E because you don’t know if it was comprehensible only to engineers or it made light of an important problem emerging in science.

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Yep, very simple: The paper is “important” but the title is “cautious,” so the title doesn’t reflect the importance of the discovery.