Each of the following sentences in this section has a blank space and is followed by four choices. Select the most appropriate choice to fill in the blank and mark your response on the Answer Sheet accordingly.
Passage:
So the ________ 56 . (a) difficulty (b) difficult (c) difference (d) different is that in the present social structure, discipline has become an important factor because we want large numbers of children ________ 57 . (a)educated (b) to be educated (c) to be educating (d) to educate together and _________ 58 . (a) as quick as possible. (b) as quickly as possible. (c) as possible as. (d) quickly Educated to be what ? To be bank clerks or super salesmen, capitalists or commissars.When you are a superman________ 59 . (a) of some kind (b) of same kind, (c) of some, (d) of same., as/or a super governor or a subtle parliamentary debater, what have you done ? You are probably very clever, full of facts. Anybody can pick up facts; butwe are human beings, not factual machines, not _______ 60 . (a) beast (b) bear (c) beastly (d) bare routine automatons. But again, sirs, you are not interested. You are listening to me and ________ 61 . (a) smiling for (b) smiling to (c) smiling with (d)smiling at each other, you are not going to do a thing about radically changing the education system; so it will drag on ______ 62 . (a) until there are (b) still there is (c) till there was (d) till there is a monstrous revolution, which will merely beanother substitution - there will be much more control because the totalitarian government knows how to shape the minds and hearts of the people, they ________ 63 . (a) had learnt the trick. (b) learnt (c) have learnt (d) had been learnt the trick.
Select the most appropriate option to fill in blank 56.
- Adifficulty
- Bdifficult
- Cdifference
- Ddifferent
Explanation
The blank requires a noun: the passage speaks of a problem, that is, ‘a difficulty’. The adjective ‘difficult’ cannot fill a noun slot. ‘Difference’ and ‘different’ are wrong in meaning and form. Hence option (a) is correct.