UPSC Prelims 2021·CSAT·Reading Comprehension·Passage Comprehension

Read the following two passages and answer the items that follow. Your answers to these items should be based on the passages only. "... most people would agree that telling deliberate lies is wrong, except perhaps in certain special situations where more harm will be done by telling the truth. Even the most truthful people probably tell a good many more lies that might be regarded as semantic lies; their use of words contains some measure of falsehood, more or less deliberate." The idea which the first part of the passage mentions is

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  1. AAgreement about telling liesCorrect
  2. BDisagreement about telling lies
  3. CDisagreement about telling the truth
  4. DDisagreement about the harm in telling the truth

Explanation

The first part of the passage states, "... most people would agree that telling deliberate lies is wrong...". This directly indicates a general consensus or "agreement" among people regarding the act of telling lies (specifically, that it is wrong). Option A is correct because it accurately reflects this statement of agreement. Option B is incorrect because the passage explicitly mentions "agreement," not disagreement. Option C is incorrect because the primary idea conveyed is about agreement concerning lies, not disagreement about truth. While an exception about truth causing harm is mentioned, it doesn't describe a general disagreement about telling the truth. Option D is incorrect because the passage presents a situation where truth can cause harm as an exception, not as a point of "disagreement" among people. The main idea is the agreement about lying.
Reading Comprehension: Read the following two passages and answer the items that follow. Your answers to these items should be based on the pas
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