This question can be answered by locating the exact words the passage uses to describe Saroo's search and matching their meaning to the options. The passage calls his effort "relentless," describes the search as "long and arduous," and says his "perseverance did pay."
Each of the wrong options describes a search that fails, fades, or happens only occasionally, "ended up being a distant dream" implies failure, "waned as time went by" implies fading effort, and "intermittently" implies gaps in the search, none of which match a search the passage calls relentless and rewarded by success.
Only "did not slacken till he succeeded" carries the same sense as "relentlessly" continuing "till" the point where "the perseverance did pay," which is exactly what happened when Saroo eventually met his mother.
Therefore, the correct answer is Did not slacken till he succeeded.
The verb to focus on in this line is "snatched," which describes a deliberate, physical action normally performed by a person or animal, not by software. When that kind of human verb is attached to a non-human subject, here "these very apps," the device being used is personification.
Checking the other options against this same verb: there is no mockery of nature in the sentence, nature is only mentioned as the thing being lost, so satire is ruled out. There is also no renaming of apps as something else entirely, which is what a metaphor would require, apps remain "apps" throughout, they are simply given a human action. That leaves personification as the only device that matches the sentence, which also rules out "none of the above."
Therefore, the correct answer is Personifed apps.
A useful check for "conclude from the passage" questions is to see whether an option restates something the passage explicitly says elsewhere, since a valid conclusion should be traceable to the passage's own stated facts, not to an assumption added by the option itself.
The option about reducing app usage being impossible contradicts the passage's closing suggestions for exactly that. The option comparing technology to food and water contradicts the passage's actual comparison, which is about physical interaction, not technology. The option about all senior citizens being lonely due to lacking tech skills is not supported anywhere, the passage instead attributes older-generation loneliness to lack of occupation and company.
What remains, and what the passage supports through multiple linked statements about apps replacing in-person contact and loneliness rising alongside app use, is that greater use of social-media apps and greater loneliness move together.
Therefore, the correct answer is There is a direct correlation between loneliness and excessive usage of social- media apps.
This inference question hinges on one sentence: institutions are increasingly engaging psychologists to strengthen students' "emotional, social and academic skills." An inference should stay close to what this sentence actually supports, rather than adding a scope the passage doesn't state.
Two of the options add scope the passage never gives, "all the students" feeling a need for counselling and educational apps being "discouraged significantly," neither of which appears anywhere in the text. A third option assigns a negative motive, teachers "passing the buck," that the passage does not suggest, it presents psychologists' growing role as a positive, considered response, not an evasion by teachers.
What is left, and what is directly supported by the sentence about strengthening emotional, social, and academic skills, is that institutions are placing real emphasis on students' mental and emotional wellbeing.
Therefore, the correct answer is Special emphasis is being laid on the mental and emotional health of the students.
Tone in a concluding paragraph is usually signalled by whether the writer leaves the reader with a solution or with a problem. Here, the paragraph opens by conceding the situation is "alarming" but immediately follows with "it is never too late," and then lists specific, doable actions, offline shopping, nature walks, outdoor games, meeting friends, as the way to stay above "the ocean of loneliness."
This structure, concern followed by a workable way out, is what defines an optimistic tone, since despair would stop at the concern, and neither praise nor apology fits a paragraph that is entirely about future action rather than judging a person or admitting fault.
Therefore, the correct answer is Optimistic.