Read the passage carefully and answer the questions: The true role of our…
2020
Read the passage carefully and answer the questions:
The true role of our energy is to gain personal power and operate from it at all times. Today, in many situations, people lose their personal power in relationships between boss-subordinate, client-customer, colleague-colleague, teacher-student, husband-wife, parent-child, friend-friend, etc. Often in these relationships someone plays the role of the oppressor while the other plays the role of the oppressed. But this is a great weakness in the relationship and it undermines people's capacity to be their authentic selves and accomplish what they want in their lives. We need personal power to hold our self-esteem and go forward to succeed in our pursuits. Human relationships often deteriorate through these power struggles and ultimately both, whether they are playing the role of an oppressor or the oppressed, lose their personal power. Personal power can be seen as the result of an interplay between masculine and feminine forms of power. Both these forms of power can co-exist in both men and women. Both feminine and the masculine forms of power need to be honoured and expressed for a beautiful presence and creation in the world. We have to gain a deeper understanding of the characteristics of masculine and feminine forms of power.
Loss of personal power in the society is attributed to
- A.
Rigid human relations
- B.
Aggressiveness of the oppressors
- C.
Weakness of the oppressed
- D.
Power struggle in society
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Correct answer: D
Concept: In an 'attributed to' reading-comprehension question, the correct option is the reason the passage explicitly names for the outcome asked about, not a factor that merely sounds plausible in real life but is never stated in the text.
Application: The passage states, “Human relationships often deteriorate through these power struggles and ultimately both, whether they are playing the role of an oppressor or the oppressed, lose their personal power.” This sentence directly names the ongoing power struggle within these relationships as what causes both sides to lose their personal power.
Cross-check — why the other options do not fit:
Rigid human relations: the passage never describes the relationships as rigid or unchanging; it describes them shifting into oppressor and oppressed roles.
Aggressiveness of the oppressors: the passage names an oppressor role but does not single out aggressiveness as the trait responsible — it holds both roles jointly responsible through the struggle itself.
Weakness of the oppressed: the passage names an oppressed role but does not single out weakness as the trait responsible — it holds both roles jointly responsible through the struggle itself.
So the loss of personal power is attributed to the power struggle in society/relationships, exactly as the passage states, rather than to a trait of a single party or to the relations being rigid.