Question

Directions: Read the following passage and answer the question that follows.

Hindi ought to be the official language of India. There is no reason for the government to spend money printing documents in different languages just to cater to people who cannot read or write Hindi. The government has better ways to spend taxpayers' money. People across India should read, write, or learn Hindi at the earliest.

Which of the following, if true, would weaken the speaker's argument the most?

• A. The government currently translates official documents into more than eighteen languages.
• B. Hindi is the most difficult language in the world to speak.
• C. Most people who travel across India learn Hindi within five years.
• D. People who are multilingual usually pay the maximum taxes.

Hint:

Focus only on the option that attacks the "wasted taxpayer money" reasoning the speaker actually uses.

Answer 1

The Correct Option is D

Step 1: Understanding the Concept:
The speaker's only stated reason for making Hindi compulsory is financial: printing documents in many languages wastes taxpayers' money. A weakening option must attack this money-based reasoning, not just comment on Hindi's difficulty or popularity.

Step 2: Key Formula or Approach:
Test each option by asking whether it shows that the money being spent on multiple languages is actually justified or fair. If yes, it weakens the speaker; if it only comments on Hindi's difficulty or on how long it takes to learn, it misses the target.

Step 3: Detailed Explanation:
Saying the government "currently translates into eighteen languages" is a neutral fact and does not judge whether that spending is wasteful, so it does not weaken anything.
Calling Hindi "the most difficult language" is about the effort of learning it, not about whether the government's spending is wasted, so this option misses the speaker's actual reasoning.
Saying most travellers "learn Hindi within five years" shows that learning Hindi is achievable, which supports rather than weakens the push toward Hindi.
Saying multilingual citizens "pay the maximum taxes" flips the money argument on its head: the very people funding the government the most are the ones who need documents in other languages, so spending on translation is a fair use of their own tax money, not a waste.

Step 4: Final Answer:
Because it directly undercuts the "wasted taxpayer money" reasoning that the whole argument depends on, the tax-related option weakens the argument the most. This corresponds to option (EE).