Read the following passage and answer the item that follows. Your answer to this item should be based on the…
Read the following passage and answer the item that follows. Your answer to this item should be based on the passage only.
Passage:
"........ most people would agree that telling deliberate lies is wrong, except perhaps in certain special situations where more harm will be done by telling the truth. Even the most truthful people probably tell a good many more lies that might be regarded as semantic lies; their use of words contains some measure of falsehood, more or less deliberate."
The idea which the first part of the passage mention is
agreement about telling lies.
disagreement about telling lies.
disagreement about telling the truth.
disagreement about the harm in telling the truth.
Solution
The first part of the passage is missing and the given text continues it. The first part deals with the idea of agreement that telling deliberate lies is wrong (with exceptions), i.e. agreement about telling lies. Hence option (a).