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:
Our urban young are less at ease with their own language than with English !
Assumptions:
I. One feels most comfortable with one's mothertongue.
II. English language books sell more than their vernacular counterparts.
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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: A
Note the exclamation mark(!). Which implies that the phenomenon is surprising . Hence I is implicit. II is a conclusion, not an assumption.