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Directions (51–60) : In the following passage, there are blanks, each of which has been numbered. These numbers are printed below the passage, against each, five words are suggested, one of which fits the blank appropriately. Find out the appropriate word in each case.
Poverty is a perception- it is a status which is (51) on people who have relatively little–even in societies of plenty. That is why we (52) can never really ever “end” poverty. To see a world in which so many people have less than you and to want them to have more is, to many of us, human (53). It is why poverty in the UK matters as much as poverty elsewhere, despite the material differences. Relative poverty will always (54) and it should always be at the forefront of efforts to improve our world because it (55) more than the bare minimum solution.
(56) this, the aid industry currently has quite a few eggs in the end poverty basket. We risk assuming that the public (57) between absolute and relative poverty. It probably doesn’t– especially not in austere times. Just look at the (58) political view on and to the middle income countries that contain hundreds of millions of desperately poor people.
Too much negatively and we are (59) of not making any progress with aid money, too much task of progress and aid is no longer necessary. It shouldn’t be a Catch 22 situation but in (60), for some, it is.
Poverty is a perception- it is a status which is (51) on people who have relatively little–even in societies of plenty. That is why we (52) can never really ever “end” poverty. To see a world in which so many people have less than you and to want them to have more is, to many of us, human (53). It is why poverty in the UK matters as much as poverty elsewhere, despite the material differences. Relative poverty will always (54) and it should always be at the forefront of efforts to improve our world because it (55) more than the bare minimum solution.
(56) this, the aid industry currently has quite a few eggs in the end poverty basket. We risk assuming that the public (57) between absolute and relative poverty. It probably doesn’t– especially not in austere times. Just look at the (58) political view on and to the middle income countries that contain hundreds of millions of desperately poor people.
Too much negatively and we are (59) of not making any progress with aid money, too much task of progress and aid is no longer necessary. It shouldn’t be a Catch 22 situation but in (60), for some, it is.
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