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 62.
- Auntil there are
- Bstill there is
- Ctill there was
- Dtill there is
Explanation
The clause refers to a continuing present situation (‘a monstrous revolution’), so the present tense ‘is’ is needed. ‘Until there are’ is plural and ‘till there was’ is past. ‘Still there is’ is ungrammatical in this construction. Hence option (d) is correct.