Direction: In each question below is given a statement followed by two assumption numbered I and II. An assumption is something supposed or taken for granted. You have to consider the statement and the following assumption and decide which of the assumption is implicit in the statement.
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Statement:
In the country, which has over 70 television channels hundreds of newspapers, thousands of magazines and a sensation through 'dotcoms' , the demand for journalists would never die down.
Assumptions:
I. TV channels and dotcom companies are mushrooming by the day.
II. Journalists are the pillar of our democracy.
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- if only assumption I is implicit.
- if only assumption II is implicit.
- if either I or II is implicit.
- if neither I nor II is implicit.
- if both I and II are implicit.
- if only assumption I is implicit.
Correct Option: D
I may be a conclusion but it is not an assumption. Hence I is not implicit. Nor is he assuming about the role of journalists in the society before delivering his statement. Hence II is not implicit.
