SSC CHSL 2024 PYQ — Question 21

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

What is literacy? It is the golden key that (1)_______ the gates to a whole new world. It heralds the dawn of a new (2)______. But the media hype seems to give the impression that literacy simply means the ability to sign one’s name, instead of putting thumb impression. Isn’t that a very (3)______, simplistic interpretation of the word? Taking up this narrow meaning of the word, politicians proclaim that their states have achieved 80 or 90 per cent literacy or even (4)______. But quite often, what happens is, once the training course is over, to produce (5)______, the neo-literates soon lapse into illiteracy.