In this section, you have short passages. After each passage, you will find some items based on the passage. Read the passage carefully and answer the items based on it. You are required to select your answers based solely on the contents of the passage and the opinion of the author.
Passage:
Poverty is a complex problem. It is far more than an economical condition. We measure it usually in terms of income but forget that poverty embraces a whole range of circumstances, including lack of access to information and to basic services like nutritional diet, health care and education. It results into a loss of cultural identity and destroys traditional knowledge. Poor people become marginalised and suffer from exploitation and loss of human dignity.
Which of the following sentences comes close to the meaning of the sentence, “Poverty embraces a whole range of circumstances.”
- AThere are lot of angles to poverty
- BThere are several section in the society which are poor
- CThere are several types of poverty
- DPoverty is solely an economic issue
Explanation
The sentence explains that poverty 'is far more than an economical condition' and lists its many dimensions - information, services, culture, dignity. Option A captures this multi-dimensionality. B invents 'sections of society', C speaks of 'types of poverty' rather than dimensions of one problem, and D directly contradicts the sentence. Hence option A is correct.