XAT 2022VARC Question 3

Mixed PracticeEasy

Carefully read the following statement:

The moment we no longer have a free press, anything can happen. What makes it_____ for a totalitarian or any other dictatorship to rule is that _____ are not informed; how can you have an opinion if you are not informed? If everybody always lies to you, the ________ is not that you believe the lies, but rather that nobody believes anything any longer. This is because lies, by their very nature, have to be changed, and a lying government has ________ to rewrite its own history.

Which of the following options will BEST fill up the above blanks meaningfully?

Answer & solution

  • Possible, people, consequence, constantly

  • B

    Absurd, subjects, beauty, no reason

  • C

    Unique, senators, reason, enough

  • D

    Necessary, citizens, joy, unusually

  • E

    Unpleasant, plebeians, fact, forced

Solution

Among the given options, we can see that only option A fits to given context.
Answer is option A.

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