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The author suggests that habits
(a) tend to make our lives difficult · (b) add precision to our lives · (c) make it easier for us to live · (d) tend to mechanize our lives
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Answer: (c) हमारे लिए जीना आसान करती हैं
The author says habits 'simplify the mechanism of life' and let us do many things automatically; without them existence would be 'an impossible confusion'. So habits make it easier for us to live.
- ✗ (a) The opposite of the passage, which says we 'could not get on without them'.
- ✗ (b) Precision is not mentioned; the benefit described is ease — not having to think afresh every time.
- ✓ (c) Habits simplify life and spare us fresh thought for every routine act, so they make living easier.
- ✗ (d) The passage does speak of the 'mechanism of life' and of doing things automatically, but as a help, not as a complaint that habits mechanize life.
Remember · Match the author's attitude: a passage that praises something will not support an option that criticises it, even if the option borrows the passage's words.
Question and answer: UPSC's official GS Paper II (2017, Series A) — paper ↗ · answer key ↗. Explanation: Minimalist IAS, checked 30 Sept 2026 (how we verify). ·