Read the following passage and answer the questions given below. The two main…
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Read the following passage and answer the questions given below. The two main reasons of this chronic and unmanageable problem is rapidly ever increasing population and defective education system. Such a huge population, India finds it difficult to make any significant success in the areas of employment, alleviation of poverty and backwardness. Every sixth person in the world is an Indian. In other words, we are adding an Australia to our population every year or to Japan every ten years. There are about 31 new babies every minute or 45,000 new people daily. Thus, every year there are about 16 million more people to feed, cloth, educate and give employment. This prevailing trend of population growth is quite disturbing. Unemployment rate in India is showing an increasing trend since 2011 when it was 3.5 percent. The same rose to 3.6 percent in 2012 and climbed to 3.7 percent last year.
Q. Through the given statement 'we are adding an Australia to our population every year', the author implies that ________.
- A.
our population growth is equivalent to that of Australia
- B.
population composition of India and Australia, is similar.
- C.
the number of people added to Australia’s population is equal to India’s entire population
- D.
the number of people added to India’s population every year is equal to Australia’s entire population
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Correct answer: D
To understand why Option D is the correct answer, we need to analyze the author's use of a comparative analogy in the passage.
Analysis of the Statement
The Statement: "we are adding an Australia to our population every year."
The Intent: The author is using this comparison to illustrate the sheer scale of India's annual population increase. By comparing the number of people added annually in India to the total population of Australia, the author highlights that India is growing by a quantity of people roughly equivalent to the entire population of another developed nation within just one year.