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Direction: In the following questions, you have several passages where some of the word have been left out. Read the passages carefully and choose the correct answer to each blank out of the four alternatives.

Passage-1

When steam-roller nationalism replaces (28), there can be no space for (29) or for (30) questioning. It flattens healthy (31), so essential in a democracy and it demands an unhealthy (32), of world view, lifestyle and (33). We have seen this in India at the time of Kargil. Even so-called independent news channels joined the nationalism (34) There were no (35) areas. Everything was black and White. We were white, on the side of good and they, the Pakistanis were black, on the side of evil. And if you were a true Indian, you had no choice but to side with the good. If, of course, you belonged to the (36) religion as the enemy, then you had to prove your (37) a hundred times to be considered a worthy member of the good team.

A) mutual

B) cultural

C) religious

D) honest