Verbal Ability - Comprehension - Discussion

Discussion Forum : Comprehension - Section 9 (Q.No. 3)
Directions to Solve
Mahatma Gandhi believed that industrialisation was no answer to the problems that plague the mass of India's poor and that villagers should be taught to be self-sufficient in food, weave their own cloth from cotton and eschew the glittering prizes that the 20th century so temptingly offers. Such an idyllic and rural paradise did not appear to those who inherited the reins of political power.

3.
Which one of the following best illustrates the relationship between the phrases:
(i) 'eschew the glittering prizes' and
(ii) 'idyllic and rural paradise'?
unless you do (i), you cannot have (ii)
(i) and (ii) are identical in meaning
first of all you must have (ii) in order to do (i)
the meaning of (i) is directly opposite to (ii)
Answer: Option
Explanation:
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Discussion:
15 comments Page 2 of 2.

Gopu said:   9 years ago
The correct option is A.

Rucha said:   9 years ago
I agree with you @Sarah!

Option A must be the answer.

Sarah said:   1 decade ago
I think option A is the correct answer.

The phrase to eschew the glittering prize of the 20th century implies the act of abstaining oneself from the glittering prize of the 20th century which is materialization and the phrase idyllic and rural paradise is the reward from abstaining oneself from the temptation.

If you abstain from something bad you get a reward for it. Here if you abstain yourself from the glittering prize you end up in an idyllic rural paradise.

To achieve II you must perform I.

Sushma said:   1 decade ago
Correct answer is option:C first implies that having sufficient food and basic needs that leads to removal of poverty, it gives the second option.
(1)

Abhinandan said:   1 decade ago
The correct answer should be C.


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