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.
Interplay of forms of power is
- A.
The essence of success in our pursuits
- B.
Distinctly gender-based
- C.
Nothing but assertion of power
- D.
Needed for the creation of world
Show answer & explanation
Correct answer: D
Concept
A passage-based sentence-completion question is answered by finding the option that restates an idea the passage explicitly states or clearly implies for the exact sentence being completed — not a related but broader theme, and not an idea the passage elsewhere contradicts.
Application
The sentence to complete is “Interplay of forms of power is ___.” The passage first introduces this interplay: “Personal power can be seen as the result of an interplay between masculine and feminine forms of power.” It then closes with: “Both feminine and the masculine forms of power need to be honoured and expressed for a beautiful presence and creation in the world.” Read together, the passage presents the interplay of the two forms as what is required for that “creation in the world” — the best-supported completion offered is “Needed for the creation of world,” which paraphrases the passage's “creation in the world” as “creation of world.”
Cross-check
“The essence of success in our pursuits” restates a different sentence in the passage — “We need personal power to hold our self-esteem and go forward to succeed in our pursuits” — which is about personal power in general, not the interplay of its two forms.
“Distinctly gender-based” is contradicted by the passage's explicit statement that “both these forms of power can co-exist in both men and women.”
“Nothing but assertion of power” narrows the interplay to one force dominating, but the passage frames it as two forces being honoured and expressed together, not as an assertion contest.
“Needed for the creation of world” matches the passage's explicit statement linking the honouring and expression of both forms to “a beautiful presence and creation in the world,” even though it paraphrases “in the world” as “of world.”
The best-supported completion is therefore “Needed for the creation of world.”