Question

In the modern industrial age, the demand for 46 technical personnel is much more than in the feudal age because the demand for goods is much more owing to increase in population and other factors. Hence, the traditional feudal method of teaching a craft, in which only a handful of persons were taught, would no longer 47 for modern society.

Now, technical institutes or engineering colleges, where a large number of students are taught technical skills, have become 48. Obviously, all these students could not be sons of the teacher. This 49 the very basis of the caste system in which one had no option in choosing one's vocation and had to follow one's father's profession. The caste system, in which one's vocation is chosen by one's birth, is thus totally 50 in the modern age.

From the following select the appropriate word to replace number 46 in the above passage.

• A. Untrained
• B. Skilled
• C. Homogenous
• D. Supplementary

Hint:

The sentence contrasts modern industry with the feudal age, where only a few were trained in a craft.

Answer 1

The Correct Option is B

The blank needs a word describing the kind of technical personnel that industrial society demands in large numbers, unlike the feudal age.

1. (a) Untrained: Industrial society needs personnel who can operate complex processes, so untrained workers would not meet this demand.
2. (b) Skilled: Modern industry needs trained, capable workers in large numbers, so "skilled" fits the contrast with the feudal age's narrow craft training.
3. (c) Homogenous: This word describes uniformity among personnel, not the level of training the passage is discussing.
4. (d) Supplementary: This suggests extra or additional staff, not the core demand for trained workers that the passage describes.

Option (b), skilled, correctly completes the sentence about the demand for trained technical personnel.