‘Patriotism is the last refuge of scoundrel’, says Johnson. In the modern world where the cunning selfish people……………and the hard working, conscientious people……………. The quotation holds good.
Explanation:
As per the given sentence, in the modern world, cunning and selfish people enjoy all the benefits by displaying ‘false’ patriotism while ‘conscientious’ people are unable to do so due to which they are left behind. Though option 1 looks correct, we need to use ‘are suppressed’ to make the sentence grammatically correct. Negate it. Option 2 correctly fits both the blanks. Retain it. ‘Mutilate’ means ‘injure’ by damaging parts and does not fit the sentence contextually. Negate it. ‘Empower’ does not fit the first blank grammatically. In order to make it grammatically correct, it should be ‘are empowered’. Thus 4 can be negated. Hence, the correct answer is option 2.
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