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Direction: In the following questions, you have several brief passages with some questions following each passage. Read the passages carefully and choose the best answer to each question out of the four alternatives.

Passage - 1

Much of our adult state of fear is linked up with the feeling that I, an individual, have to cope single-handedly with a hostile world, the details of which have become far too complicated for me to understand. This feeling of isolation is in part a by-product of the way have been educated and the stress that is put on passing examinations. The more 'successful' your education, the more likely you are to feel alone, because the process of segregation has been more complete at every stage you proved how much cleverer you are than all those other fellows, until in the end you stand quite alone and afraid. It ought to be possible to manage things in a different way so that we go forward into the future, collaborating as a team instead of looking around for every possible opportunity to knife each other in the back.

An adult in the modem world is in a state of fear because

A) he has developed an individuality    

B) he feels lonely in an unfriendly world

C) his life has become complicated    

D) he cannot understand the challenge