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SSC CGL 2025 PYQ — Question 73

SSC CGL Tier II - 20 January 2025 - Shift I • English • Q73

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

The greatest disease in the West today is not TB or leprosy; it is being unwanted, unloved, and uncared for. We can cure (1)________ diseases with medicine, but the only cure for loneliness, despair, and hopelessness is love. There are many in the world who are (2)________ for a piece of bread but there are many more dying for a little love. The poverty in the West is a different kind of poverty – it is not only a poverty of (3)________ but also of (4)________. There's a hunger for affection as there is a hunger for God.

Select the most appropriate option to fill in blank 1.

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Correct answer: A

Explanation

The correct answer is option 1 i.e. physical. 

The blank is filled with 'physical' because the context of the sentence contrasts physical diseases, like tuberculosis (TB) or leprosy, with emotional or psychological issues such as loneliness, despair, and hopelessness. 

The sentence refers to the fact that medicines can cure physical diseases but the only cure for loneliness, despair, and hopelessness is love.