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Direction: fill up the blanks in the passage given below with the most appropriate word from the option given for each blank.

New industries supported by foreign interests \[\underline{\mathbf{16}}\] offer \[\underline{\mathbf{17}}\] salaries to their employers at all levels of responsibility than \[\underline{\mathbf{18}}\] locally owned industries. They need \[\underline{\mathbf{19}}\] people and are \[\underline{\mathbf{20}}\] to pay high wages to \[\underline{\mathbf{21}}\] them. Local industries often \[\underline{\mathbf{22}}\] the high salaries offered by foreign-supported industries, arguing that this will \[\underline{\mathbf{23}}\] raise all wages to an excessive level. Workers in local industries, seeing the sharp \[\underline{\mathbf{24}}\] in job-pay will agitate for an improvement in their salaries. This eventually will drain the resources and \[\underline{\mathbf{25}}\] their profitability.

A)  augment

B)                     fulfil                

C)  enhance           

D)  lower