Directions: In the following items a pair of sentences (S1, S2) is given. Select the most appropriate and relevant co-relationship of the second sentence to the first from among the options (a), (b), (c) and (d), and mark your response on the Answer Sheet accordingly.
S1: Failure is the stepping stone to success.
S2: Successive failures are not however successive stepping stones to success.
The second sentence:
- Acontradicts the wisdom of the first
- Bcontrasts the wisdom of the first
- Cconfirms the wisdom of the first
- Dqualifies the wisdom of the first
Explanation
S2 does not deny that failure can be a stepping stone; it limits the claim by adding that repeated failures are not automatically successive stepping stones. "Qualify" means to limit or modify a general statement, which is exactly what S2 does to S1's wisdom. "Contradict" would require a flat denial, "contrast" a mere difference, and "confirm" agreement — none fits as well as "qualifies".