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CLOZE COMPREHENSION
Directions (Next 19 Questions): Each of the following passages in this section has some blank spaces with four words or groups of words given. Select whichever word or group of words you consider most appropriate for the blank space and indicate your response on the Answer Sheet accordingly.
PASSAGE (Next 9 Questions)
The founders of the Indian Republic _____(1)_____ the farsightedness and the courage to commit _____(2)_____ to two major innovations of historical significance in nation-building and social engineering: first, to _____(3)_____ a democratic and civil _____(4)_____ society among illiterate people and, second, to undertake economic development _____(5)_____ democratic political structure. Hitherto, in all societies in which an economic takeoff or an early industrial and agricultural _____(6)_____ had occurred, effective democracy, especially from the working people, had been extremely limited. On the other hand, _____(7)_____ the beginning, India was committed to _____(8)_____ democratic and civil libertarian political order and a representative system of government _____(9)_____ on free and fair elections to be conducted on the basis of universal adult franchise.
Which one of the following best suits the 1st blank?
