Read the following passage and answer the question that follows: Political…
2023
Read the following passage and answer the question that follows:
Political freedom and economic justice are two sides of democracy; both are essential. We should lay stress on the improvements of the economic conditions of the people as well as on liberty and freedom. No society can claim to be democratic if it does not permit political liberty, freedom of conscience, freedom of choice between parties, and opportunities of peaceful and orderly changes of Government.
In the context of the international situation, there are many misunderstandings. We can build peace even on the basis of misunderstandings. When once peace is built, misunderstandings will diminish.
We, in our country, are now engaged in the enterprise of effecting a social and economic revolution. The word ‘revolution’ need not scare us. It does not mean barricades and bloodshed. It means only speedy and drastic changes. We are interested not only in our objectives but in our methods; not only in what we achieve but in how we achieve. Through peaceful, constitutional processes we won our independence and integrated our country; and now we are striving to raise the material standards of our people. Even if we meet defeat in our attempt to replace force by persuasion, the politics of power by the politics of brotherhood, we are convinced that the defeat will be only temporary, for goodness is rooted in the nature of things: kindness and love are as contagious as unkindness and hate.
Which of the following traits of human nature are considered to be contagious?
A. Honesty
B. Kindness
C. Love
D. Hate
E. Integrity
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Answer: B. B, C and D only — CONCEPTLiteral-comprehension questions are answered from what the passage explicitly states, not from traits that merely seem reasonable or admirable. For a…
- A.
A, B and C only
- B.
B, C and D only
- C.
C and D only
- D.
B, D and E only
Show answer & explanation
Correct answer: B
CONCEPT
Literal-comprehension questions are answered from what the passage explicitly states, not from traits that merely seem reasonable or admirable.
For a combination question, extract the complete set named by the decisive sentence and compare that set with every offered combination.
APPLICATION
Locate the decisive sentence: the passage says that kindness and love are as contagious as unkindness and hate.
In that sentence, kindness and love are the grammatical subject of “are contagious,” while unkindness and hate complete the comparison. Among the listed traits, unkindness is not offered, so the relevant listed traits are Kindness, Love, and Hate.
Compare that three-trait set with each offered combination by value.
CONTRAST
The combination containing Honesty, Kindness, and Love adds Honesty and leaves out Hate; honesty is not named in the decisive sentence.
The combination containing Kindness, Love, and Hate contains all three listed traits named in the decisive sentence.
The combination containing Love and Hate leaves out Kindness, which is named alongside Love.
The combination containing Kindness, Hate, and Integrity adds Integrity and leaves out Love; integrity is not named in the decisive sentence.
RESULT
Therefore, the matching offered combination contains Kindness, Love, and Hate.