Fill in the blanks (Free Press)
XAT 2022 · Verbal Ability & Logical Reasoning · Medium · Vocabulary
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?
- A.
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
A
Explanation
'Possible, people, consequence, constantly' fits the contextual flow logically and grammatically.
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