Question

Directions: Read the following passage and answer the question that follows.

Hindi ought to be the official language of India. There is no reason for the government to spend money printing documents in different languages just to cater to people who cannot read or write Hindi. The government has better ways to spend taxpayers' money. People across India should read, write, or learn Hindi at the earliest.

Which of the following, if true, would weaken the speaker's argument the most?

• A. The government currently translates official documents into more than eighteen languages.
• B. Hindi is the most difficult language in the world to speak.
• C. Most people who travel across India learn Hindi within five years.
• D. People who are multilingual usually pay the maximum taxes.

Hint:

Focus only on the option that attacks the "wasted taxpayer money" reasoning the speaker actually uses.

Answer 1

The Correct Option is D

The speaker's argument rests entirely on saving taxpayers' money: printing documents in many languages is a waste, so Hindi alone should be the official language. To weaken this the most, an option must attack the "wasted taxpayer money" reasoning itself, ideally by showing that the very people being asked to switch to Hindi are the ones funding the government in the first place.

1. The government currently translates official documents into more than eighteen languages: this is only a fact about the current scale of translation. It does not say whether that spending is justified or wasteful, so it does not weaken the argument.
2. Hindi is the most difficult language in the world to speak: even if Hindi is hard to learn, that says nothing about whether people should still be expected to learn it or whether the government's money is being wasted. The argument survives untouched.
3. Most people who travel across India learn Hindi within five years: this actually supports the idea that learning Hindi is realistic and workable, so if anything it agrees with the speaker rather than weakening the claim.
4. People who are multilingual usually pay the maximum taxes: this strikes at the money argument directly. If the people who speak several languages, and therefore need documents in their own languages, are also the ones paying the most tax, then printing documents in multiple languages is not a waste of "other people's" money, it is a service funded by the very people who need it. This removes the speaker's core justification.

Only the tax-paying option cuts at the reason the speaker actually gives, wasted taxpayer money, so it weakens the argument the most.

Let's summarize:

• The speaker's whole case is built on money being wasted on multiple languages.
• Showing that multilingual citizens are the ones paying the most tax removes that justification entirely, while the other options are either neutral or irrelevant to the money argument.

So the correct option is "People who are multilingual usually pay the maximum taxes."