Previous Year Questions

Question :

Directions : In the following passage, some of the sentences have been left out and replaced by blanks represented by alphabets. First, read the passage and try to understand what it is about. Then fill in the blanks as per the questions given.

"What you do not want is a paywall system of weather where _____(A)___ paying customers can find out if they're about to drive into a tornado." That's a quote from comedian John Oliver, who in 2020 presented a segment on his popular Max show, Last Week Tonight about AccuWeather's ____(B)___ to take over weather forecasting services from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. AccuWeather is a private, for-profit company that sells weather forecasts to corporations. NOAA is a government agency that ____(C)____ weather, climate and environmental conditions, and provides weather data and forecasts for free. Oliver also unearthed a 2018 interview with AccuWeather's Founder and Executive Chairman Joel Myers, describing what he felt was a success story for privatized-weather forecasting, but which actually stands as a cautionary tale: "Union Pacific: We told them that a tornado was heading to a spot. Two trains stopped two miles apart, they watched the tornado go between. Then unfortunately it went into a town that didn't ____(D)____our service and a couple dozen people were killed. But the railroad did not lose anything," Myers said. Now, former members of the first Trump administration are proposing putting the privatization of NOAA's weather data and forecasts into law should the former President be re-elected this November. They're also suggesting that AccuWeather should take over many of NOAA's functions. If this happens, Americans may have to start paying ____(E)____ the daily weather reports we rely on to live our lives safely.

Which of the following can replace blank (A) in the passage?