Given below is a passage followed by several inferences. Examine the passage…
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Given below is a passage followed by several inferences. Examine the passage carefully based on the inferences and then decide the validity of each of the inferences.
The country has taken a major initiative by introducing the convertibility of the rupee on the current account. It has also been declared that the ultimate goal is to make the Rupee fully convertible. These are signs of the country's achieving economic maturity. India is now ready to welcome foreign capital. It is preparing to reduce import tariffs to levels that are currently the norm in other developing countries. All these measures show that India is today mature and strong enough to face International Competition and to integrate itself successfully with the global economy. The country is ready to shed its ideological inhibitions and ready to evaluate the international economic environment in a pragmatic spirit.
Socialistic ideals prevented India from evaluating the international economic environment in a pragmatic spirit.
- A.
If the inference is definitely false.
- B.
If the inference is probably true;
- C.
If the inference is probably false;
- D.
If the inference is definitely true;
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Correct answer: B
CONCEPT: In Fact-Inference-Judgement reading exercises, an inference is 'Definitely True' only if it directly restates or necessarily follows from an explicit statement; 'Probably True' if the passage's own facts support it but one contextual detail (like a specific label or cause) is not spelled out verbatim; 'Probably False' if the passage's facts lean against it without outright contradiction; 'Definitely False' only if the inference directly contradicts an explicit statement.
APPLICATION: The passage's closing sentence pairs two changes together: the country is ready to shed its ideological inhibitions and ready to evaluate the international economic environment in a pragmatic spirit. Saying the country is ready to ‘shed’ its inhibitions concedes that such inhibitions existed and were holding it back; pairing this with newly becoming ready to evaluate things ‘pragmatically’ ties that hold-back directly to an absence of pragmatic evaluation. So the passage's own logic supports the inference's causal claim — some ideology did keep India from evaluating things pragmatically before these reforms. The passage never uses the word 'socialistic' itself; that specific label has to be supplied from context (rupee convertibility, welcoming foreign capital, and cutting import tariffs together describe India's early-1990s move away from its long-standing state-controlled, socialist-leaning economic policy).
CROSS-CHECK: Because the passage's own wording supports rather than contradicts the causal claim, 'definitely false' and 'probably false' do not fit. Because the specific word 'socialistic' is supplied from context rather than quoted in the passage, the inference is not a certain, verbatim restatement either, so 'definitely true' over-reaches. That leaves the inference as well supported by the passage but resting on one contextual inference, not an explicit statement — i.e. probably true.