When a constitutional challenge pits individuals against the state, the court’s task is clear: if it finds that there has been a breach by the state, it must strike down the offending law, and vindicate the rights at issue. When, however, the court is called upon to settle a battle in the culture wars, the task is fraught with greater complexity. This is because these conflicts often represent deep, long-standing and irreconcilable divisions in society, touching issues of personal belief and conviction.
The paragraph presents a contrast between a straightforward challenge (individuals vs the state) and a more complex case (a battle in the culture wars) in relation to constitutional rights. The emphasis is not on how a battle in the culture wars should be resolved, but on why it is difficult to resolve. Last line talks about why the task before the court is challenging. So, this is the most appropriate option.
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___________________________________________________________. They are allergic to reflection and are naturally kinetic. They despise policy detail, nuance and pauses for thought. The essence of populism is not democracy, but the insistence that there are simple solutions to complex problems – solutions that are withheld from the public by a metropolitan elite of “saboteurs”, “enemies of the people” and consumers of carrot cake.
Choose the option which fits in best in the given blank:
The paragraph argues that populists do not like to reflect; instead of thinking through problems, they facilely insist on simple solutions to problems. The option that populists survive by "staying in motion relates to the idea of populists being "naturally kinetic" and not pausing for thought.
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Violence is akin to infectious disease. One event leads to another : just as flu causes more flu, violence causes more violence. To contain infectious diseases, public health officials try to get people to change their behavior so that a rapid effect can be seen even when larger structural factors can’t be tackled. Yet, when it comes to violence, the discussion is often underpinned by an assumption that this behavior is innate and immutable, and that people engaging in it are beyond redemption.
This paragraph says that violence is similar to infectious diseases, as violence induces more violence. But while public health measures are taken to contain the spread of infectious diseases by getting people to change their behavior, a similar approach is not taken to contain violence, which is considered to be innate and immutable. This option carries the idea forward that as people engaging in violence are considered to be beyond redemption, solutions to violence prevention are sought in the criminal justice system rather than in public health measures.
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It is low mathematical maturity that causes crippling math anxiety in students. Unfortunately, math education that focuses on procedures and formulas stokes the problem. To develop mathematical maturity, students have to be encouraged to think about the concepts they learn. They have to be encouraged to ask themselves the questions that mathematicians often ask themselves: Why is this result true? Why does this procedure work? Can this problem be solved in a different way? Why is this result important? And so on.
From the paragraph “To develop mathematical maturity, students have to be encouraged to think about the concepts they learn”; hence the option “In short, for students to learn mathematical maturity, they must actively engage with the subject, by seeking the meaning behind the result.” Goes well & completes the main idea of the paragraph.
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Many countries with abundant natural resources seem to suffer from slower economic growth, more corruption, more conflict, more authoritarian politics and more poverty than their peers with fewer resources. Academics studying this oddity have worked out that the poor performance of these countries isn't only because powerful crooks siphon off money and stash it offshore, though that is also true. The startling idea that they have discovered is that money flowing from natural resources could make the people in these countries even worse off than if the riches had never been discovered.
From these lines “Academics studying this ………………………………………….. countries even worse off than if the riches had never been discovered”; it is clearly implied that more money (from resources) can actually make people poorer, and labels it the "Paradox of Poverty from PLenty".
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