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 do you think is the tone of the passage ?
- AObjective but querulous
- BDescriptive and impassioned
- CArgumentative and critical
- DObjective and critical
Explanation
The passage analyses poverty in measured, expository prose - objective - while exposing its harms and the failures surrounding it - critical. It is not querulous (complaining, A), not impassioned (B), and it describes rather than argues a case (C). Hence objective and critical, option D, is correct.