Read the following passage and answer the questions that follow it. Each question has 4 options. Choose the correct option/answer for each question:

I worked for a brief while in a college in Delhi, and among my more uncomfortable memories is a language exercise, I gave a group of eight undergraduates: I asked them to imagine that they had already graduated and wanted them to write an application for a suitable job. Seven of the eight students wrote applications for the jobs of clerks. Even in one of the good universities, and in a college that had a reputation for its academic standards, the system has snuffed out all youthful ambition.

Q:

Choose the correct option from the given passage:
 According to the author, the system had -

• 1
  killed the students' ambitions.
• 2
  motivated the students' ambitions.
• 3
  taught them to write applications.
• 4
  inspired them to become scholars and scientists and statesmen.