Directions In each of the following questions a short passage is given with one of the lines in the ...........

English ( Master) Paragraph Completion

Directions: In each of the following questions a short passage is given with one of the lines in the passage missing and represented by a blank. Select the best out of the five answer choices given, to make the passage complete and coherent (coherent means logically complete and sound).

“Universal” is a tricky word. It has an enormous appeal, an unquestioned romance of taking everyone along. Universal human rights, universal access to basic services, housing for all. It is the barometer of inclusion done right. __________________________________. Often the “universal” is a vanishing horizon and, like all horizons, the mirage is what makes you lose sight of the very real trade-offs and constraints in your way.

The irony is that even those who defend such exclusions do not fully realise the cost they themselves pay for them.

However, the exclusions are simultaneously socially performed, legally enshrined, and economically reproduced.

Yet herein, in the romance, lies the first danger of taking an important move and losing ourselves in a mirage well before the horizon is near.

The dark side of the romance is that it’s one of the hardest things to achieve.

In Indian cities, one of the biggest blocks to any imagination of “universal” or “inclusive” development is not lack of money, land or technology as is so often imagined.

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Explanation:

It the paragraph, the writer through the sentence preceding as well as following the blank presents his or her views while defining the word ‘universal’ in the context. We can observe that while the sentence preceding the blank talks about the positive aspects in the context, the sentence following the blank depicts a possible dark side of it. Clearly, the option D fits the blank most appropriately here.
Option A and B talk about ‘exclusions’ which cannot be inferred from the paragraph given. Option E shares that the real problem to achieve universalism is not lack of money, which clearly is not fitting in keeping the following sentence in mind.
In the sentence following the blank, we have an indefinite article ‘a’ before the noun ‘horizon’ whereas in the option C we have the definite article ‘the’ before the same word. This evidently implies that option C cannot be a preceding sentence.
Option D is hence the correct answer.