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.
What way do you think ‘lack of access to information’ affects poor people ?
- AThey don’t get information about how to improve their conditions
- BThey didn’t get newspapers to read at all
- CThey can’t go to school and read books
- DThey don’t get information about schemes of getting rich
Explanation
The passage lists lack of access to information alongside lack of services as a circumstance of poverty. The general, passage-level effect is that the poor lack the information needed to improve their lot. B (newspapers) and C (schooling) are narrow instances; D (schemes of getting rich) trivialises the point. Hence option A is correct.