Directions: In the passage given below there are 10 blanks, each followed by a word/phrase given in bold. Each blank has four alternative words/phrases given in options A, B, C and D. You have to tell which word will best suit the respective blank. Mark E as your answer if the word given in bold after the blank is your answer i.e. “No change required.”
Email tracker is a third-party software that anyone can download and install for free. For certain _______(A) detracted features one has to pay a fee but the basic version is free. A person who sends mail using this software can _________(B) tract on the time and date at which the mail was viewed, the number of times it was viewed, the IP address of the device on which it was viewed, whether it has been forwarded to a third person or not.______(C) On the first time it seems like a handy tool. We all have been in situations where we ______(D) wandered whether the important mail we sent to the Boss or Professor was read or not. And where there is demand, there is an entrepreneur willing to______ (E) stunt on it. The tracking software______ (F) embedded a small, invisible image in the sent mail, and when the receiver opens the mail, it is detected and this data is received by the software to inform the sender.There is very little awareness around the issue of mail tracking. With data consumption increasing ______(G) sluggishly in the past year itself, India is poised for a digital revolution.The_________ (H) nuances of using basic services such as email need to be understood, especially by professionals in the work space. Cyber-attacks are on the_________ (I) slump and developing countries are at the greatest risk since scant attention is being paid to issues of privacy and safety. So what you can do to stop being tracked? Change your settings and stop loading remote content on your mail. It will make your inbox a bit drab without all the pictures. This will stop most trackers but not the highly ____________(J) expertise ones. You can also download additional software for the purpose.
Explanation:
Correct Answer is (c).The original word sluggishly means in a slow manner, which is contradicting the rest of the sentence and is thus incorrect.Adversely means unfavourably.
At doorstep means very near to where one lives and thus is irrelevant.By leaps and bounds means with startlingly rapid progress.
Slowdown means to decline gradually.Out of all the options, option C is the best fit.Hence option C is correct.