English and Logical Reasoning Prep Guide
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- English and Logical Reasoning Prep Guide
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English and Logical Reasoning Prep Guide · English · Paragraph Organization
Directions: In each of the following questions a short passage is...
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 a year for all we know; no one is obligated to tell us. _________________________________. This renders us powerless and steps around our painstakingly crafted civil liberties to hand control of our lives and information back to the state.
Options
- AWe have no idea how secure these databases are and have given no thought to what will happen if someone hacks them or misuses the sensitive information contained in them.
- BThe government wants to add our travel and bank information to these databases, and is pressuring all the phone manufacturers to integrate with them.
- CThis is a governance form in which governments use surveillance, data collection, data mining and other such invasive methods to prevent crime, terrorist attacks and to deliver welfare services.
- DThe imbalance of power created by the state’s attempts at treating citizens like pawns is dangerously magnified by advances in digital technology that allow for easy monitoring of communication and access to large amounts of data.
Correct answer
B.
The government wants to add our travel and bank information to these databases, and is pressuring all the phone manufacturers to integrate with them.
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 as the words ‘these databases’ are complementing the chain of thoughts being discussed in the paragraph.&
Option B is hence the correct answer.