SSC GD 2023 PYQ — Question 5

In the following passage, some words have been deleted. Read the passage carefully and select the most appropriate option to fill in each blank.

Inevitably, my approach will often be a personal one; how the idea grew in my mind, what shapes it took, how it (1) _________ me and affected my action. There will also be some (2) __________ personal experiences which have nothing to do with the subject in its wider aspects, but which coloured my mind and influenced my approach to the whole problem. Our judgments of countries and peoples are based on many factors; among them our personal contacts, if there have been any, have a (3)________ influence. If we do not personally know the people of a country we are apt to misjudge them even (4) ________ than otherwise, and (5) ________them entirely alien and different.