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Through the given statement 'we are adding an Australia to our population every year', the author implies that ____________.

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Comprehension (Questions 16 to 20)

Read the following passage and answer the questions given below.

The two main reasons of this chronic and unmanageable problem is rapidly ever increasing population and defective education system. Such a huge population, India finds it difficult to make any significant success in the areas of employment, alleviation of poverty and backwardness. Every sixth person in the world is an Indian. In other words, we are adding an Australia to our population every year or to Japan every ten years. There are about 31 new babies every minute or 45,000 new people daily. Thus, every year there are about 16 million more people to feed, cloth, educate and give employment. This prevailing trend of population growth is quite disturbing.

Unemployment rate in India is showing an increasing trend since 2011 when it was 3.5 percent. The same rose to 3.6 percent in 2012 and climbed to 3.7 percent last year.

Through the given statement 'we are adding an Australia to our population every year', the author implies that ____________.

  • Aour population growth is equivalent to that of Australia
  • Bpopulation composition of India and Australia, is similar.
  • Cthe number of people added to Australia’s population is equal to India’s entire population
  • Dthe number of people added to India’s population every year is equal to Australia’s entire population
Correct answer: D

Explanation

‘Adding an Australia’ means India adds as many people every year as the whole population of Australia.

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