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UPSC Prelims 2025 CSAT, question 72

Topic: Reading comprehension

Directions · Q71 to Q72

Directions for the following 2 (two) items :
Read the following two passages and answer the items that follow the passages. Your answers to these items should be based on the passages only.

Passage · Q72

Trust stands commonly defined as being vulnerable to others. Entrepreneurship implies trust in others and willingness to expose oneself to betrayal. Trust in expert systems is the essence of globalizing behaviour; trust itself emerges as a super-commodity in the social market and defines the characteristics of goods and services in a global market. Trusting conduct also means holding others in good esteem, and an optimism that they are, or will be, competent in certain respects.

Q72

Which one of the following statements best reflects the crux of the passage ?

  1. (a) Trustworthiness cannot be expected in entrepreneurship.
  2. (b) Trustworthy people are the most vulnerable people.
  3. (c) No economic activity is possible without being exposed to betrayal.
  4. (d) Trust is important though it entails risk.Correct answer

Solution.

Answer: (d) Trust is important though it entails risk.

  1. The passage notes that trust means making oneself vulnerable to others and exposing oneself to betrayal, yet trust is the essence of entrepreneurship and globalizing economic behaviour.
  2. Thus the crux of the passage is that trust is vital even though it inherently entails risk.