English and Logical Reasoning Prep GuideEnglishParagraph Organization
Directions: In each of the following questions a short passage is given with one of the lines in the passage missing and represented by a blank. Select the best out of the five answer choices given, to make the passage complete and coherent (coherent means logically complete and sound). Even the United States lets its citizens know when public databases are breached. Aadhaar and NATGRID might be hacked several times
Options
- AWe have no idea how secure these databases are and have given no thought to what will happen if someone hacks
- BThe government wants to add our travel and bank information to these databases, and is pressuring all the phon
- CThis is a governance form in which governments use surveillance, data collection, data mining and other such i
- DThe imbalance of power created by the state’s attempts at treating citizens like pawns is dangerously ma
Correct answer
B. The government wants to add our travel and bank information to these databases, and is pressuring all the phon
Step-by-step solution
If we use option A or option E for the blank, either of them would look fine at the first glance but we closely observe that if either of them is used for the blank, both the sentence used for the blank and the following sentence would express the same idea and would bring redundancy in the context. Thus, we can eliminate the options A and E. Both option C and option D are either a part of a former or a latter paragraph and neither of them fits the blank contextually. Clearly, option B is the best fit for the blank