Instructions

Directions for the following four questions: Each of the following questions has a sentence with two blanks. Given below each question are five pairs of words. Choose the pair that best completes the sentence.

Question 66

Exhaustion of natural resources, destruction of individual initiative by governments, control over men’s minds by central _______ of education and propaganda are some of the major evils which appear to be on the increase as a result of the impact of science upon minds suited by _______ to an earlier kind of world.

Solution

The first blank should have a word signifying something that denotes power or hold over people. The author is trying to say that education and propaganda are being used to control people's minds. Tenets, institutions, organs and departments can influence or control something and thus fit in the first blank. Aspects, which means features, does not convey something that exercises power or influence over people. Thus, we can eliminate option B. 

The second blank should contain a word that indicates adherence. "Suited by" should be followed by a word that indicates something that people want to continue doing. Thus, we can eliminate repulsion and inhibitions. The word "tradition" does not fit in grammatically. If the author has to say that people want to adhere to tradition, then the missing blank should have "a traditional mindset". The word tradition by itself does not fit the blank.

Hence, option A.


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