AE wrote:
Carcass wrote:
Democracies, with all its imperfections, is still close to the people.
D is the answer.
Why not (E) inured to. Please let me know? I am confused some time.
Hi..
The give away is
whereas, whereas shows contrast.
So our answer has to be opposite of the part following the word whereas.
So no one listens in totalitarian regimes, in democracy they do listen to people, so protest are useful as people voice their problems and democratic government listens to it.
Thus they are SENSITIVE to protest.
Inured means getting used to.. then people should not be protesting as the democracy has got used to protests, maybe then the protest do not have the intended effect, and therefore should not be there.
Also if you put this value in the sentence, it will not fit with whereas.
khankhan wrote:
Ironically, the foreign affairs policies of democracies are more likely to met with protests than similar policies of totalitarian regimes because a democracy is ___________protest; whereas in a totalitarian regime, no one is listening.
(A) impassive to
(B) indifferent to
(C) imperiled by
(D) sensitive to
(E) inured to
Because democracy has
got used to protests, whereas in totalitarian regimes,
no one is listening.
It does not fit in. The bold portion are not in contrast.