In the following passage, some words have been deleted. Read the passage carefully and select the most appropriate option to fill in each blank. Now, we have Mr. X as the President of India. It has come as a surprise (1)______ Scheduled Tribes who are (2)______ the most marginalised groups of the country. The Adivasis of India have been (3)______ socially, economically and culturally. Despite various efforts taken by the Government of India, they are still under (4)______ and suffering. Therefore, the (5)______ a leader from a marginalised community or group does not indicate that now the entire community will be uplifted. However, this kind of move may bring certain changes in the status of the Adivasis.
Select the most appropriate option to fill in blank no.5
- (a)elevation of
- (b)rejection of
- (c)president of
- (d)exclusion of
Answer
Why
Correct — A. Every option ends in of, so grammar separates none of them. What decides the blank is the event the passage has already reported.
That event is a leader from a marginalised community holding the office of President, and the noun for a rise in rank is elevation.
The elevation of a leader... does not indicate that the entire community will be uplifted: the sentence concedes the rise, then limits what it proves. Option (a) is the fit.
Why the others are wrong
- (b)rejection of — Rejection of reverses the passage. Its opening sentence has the leader in the office rather than turned away from it, so there is nothing rejected for this sentence to comment on.
- (c)president of — President of cannot govern a leader — you are president of a body, not of a person. It also repeats a noun the passage has already used for the same man.
- (d)exclusion of — Exclusion of contradicts the same opening fact as rejection. The sentence's whole point is that somebody from a marginalised group was included at the top.
Concept
This is a nominalisation blank. The passage states an event as a clause, and the sentence asks you to name that event as a noun.
We have Mr. X as the President becomes the elevation of a leader. Elevate to elevation, exclude to exclusion, reject to rejection — the whole option set is built from that one pattern.
Because all four nouns take of, the preposition is no clue. Only the sense of the passage decides, and that sense is a rise, not a refusal.
The sentence opens with Therefore, so it must follow from what came before. Anything that contradicts the opening fact, such as a rejection or an exclusion, cannot be what Therefore introduces.
Key facts
- Elevation is the noun of elevate, a raising in rank or office.
- All four options end in of, so the preposition decides nothing here.
- Therefore introduces a conclusion, which has to agree with the facts already stated.
- The singular does not indicate agrees with the single noun in the blank.
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Common traps
- Picking president of because the opening sentence contains the word President.
- Choosing a negative noun because the passage is largely about disadvantage.
- Reading the blank's sentence alone, without the Therefore that ties it back.
This last blank asks for the noun that sums up what the passage reported, so it is answered by re-reading the opening rather than the sentence in front of you.
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