Multiple choice

Directions: Read the following information carefully and answer the question given below. During the late 1980s and early 1990s, car manufacturers in India introduced a number of new and modern designs. Dramatically different in both appearance and engineering technology, these new models proved less safe than the larger, sturdier cars that had, until that time, dominated the market. Once on the road in significant number, these new models tended to get damaged extensively when involved in front end, rear-end and side collisions. As a direct consequence of the subsequent investigations, manufacturers discarded all the previous tenets of car safety. Thereafter, car manufacturers would rely on far more stringent use of the crash test.

Which one of the following statements can properly be inferred from the passage?

  1. Cars built before the late 1980s were built without stringent use of crash tests and therefore were hazardous to drive.

  2. The dramatically different appearance of the new models introduced in the late 1980s and early 1990s resulted in increased vulnerability to damage.

  3. Before the late 1980s the crash tests employed for testing new cars could not sufficiently ensure passenger safety in collisions.

  4. Only a more stringent use of crash tests could have prevented the spate of high damage in the new models of the late 1980s and early 1990s.

  5. None of these
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Explanation

The argument says that after the investigations, the industry would rely on far more stringent tests. Any crash tests done earlier than that did not sufficiently ensure safety in collisions.

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