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

Passage - II

This notorious group has systematically (156) the country of its natural resource wealth at the (157) of the (158) masses, who now are much (159) off than they (160) were, and who must now (161) further (162) an (163), (164) landscape in (165) to survive the day.

A) rural                             

B) downtrodden

C) downstream                  

D) poor