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."
Which one of the following habits is found more often in good people?
Mixing up the true and false
Intentional mixing up of truth with the false.
Falsification of facts
Complete concealment of truth
Solution
The passage says even the most truthful people tell semantic lies and their use of words contains a measure of falsehood, 'more or less deliberate'. So good people intentionally mix truth with false. Option (b) is correct; (a) misses the deliberate element, (c) and (d) overstate it.