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Read the passage given below and choose the option that best fits the question that follows:

Deriving your authority from the government, your position would secure the respect and consideration of everyone, especially in a service where official rank carries so much weight. This would secure you every attention and comfort on your way and there, together with a complete submission to your orders. I know these things are a matter of indifference to you except so far as they may further, the great objects you have in view, but they are of importance in themselves, and of every importance to those who have a right to take an interest in your personal position and comfort.

The person addressed in most likely a ______.

A
social worker
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government servant
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commercial agent
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D
foreign dignitary
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Solution

The correct option is C government servant
The writer is talking in the context of government service. So, the person addressed is most likely a government servant. Option B is the correct answer.

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