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Directions: Select the correct word or phrase to complete a grammatical sentence.

A newspaper (1) ______claim to be great until and unless it plays a strong educational role in society. Over the long term Indian newspapers have been performing (2) ______ function, to (3) ______ extent, in areas such as politics and public affairs, the economy, foreign policy business, science and technology, school and higher education, literature, music and sports. However, this (4) ______ role has been performed (5) ______. When the educational function is taken up systematically and (6) ______ by Indian newspapers, exciting results are (7) ______ to follow. Apart from this,(8) ______ function involves socially conscious newspapers (9) ______ hard to trigger agenda building processes to help (10) ______ democratic and progressive outcomes.