Fill in the blanks (Free Press)

XAT 2022 · VALR · Medium · Vocabulary

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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?

  1. A.

    Possible, people, consequence, constantly

  2. B.

    Absurd, subjects, beauty, no reason

  3. C.

    Unique, senators, reason, enough

  4. D.

    Necessary, citizens, joy, unusually

  5. E.

    Unpleasant, plebeians, fact, forced

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