Multiple choice

Directions: Select the option that is the best substitute for the parenthesis given in the passage.

Adding to the difficulty are the different priorities of the central government. The emphasis in Beijing is on necessity of economic performance; all the talk is of the need for more profit, higher productivity, more plant discipline. For the central government, a vastly increased supply of consumer goods and of goods of improved quality must be the first priority. Without the incentives that only an increased consumer oriented good supply can provide, (.) It shows signs of slowing down now.

  1. there can be only better outputs

  2. there can be no reason to expect that we will witness a boom

  3. the economic drive shall be a massive success

  4. the economic drive, both on the farm and in the cities, would soon falter
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D Correct answer
Explanation

We can reject option (2) on account of sentence ‘it shows signs of slowing down now’. Options (1) and (3) are assertions on results of economic policies being followed but this subject hasn’t been discussed in the passage. Again on account of last line, option (4) ‘economic drive, both on the farm and in the cities, would soon falter’, matches the passage in conclusion. This marks option (4) as correct answer.

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