Comprehension Passage

Direction: Some words have been left out in the following passage. Read the passage carefully and choose the correct answer for the given blank out of the four alternatives:

In 1959, the United Nations General Assembly [1] __________  the Declaration of the Rights of the Child, the first charter of its kind ensuring basic rights to all children below 18 years, with these words: “Mankind owes to the child the best it can give.” Yet, as is well-documented, children, because of their vulnerability, often become victims of abuse of power by the very people who are entrusted with their protection. The advancements in digital technologies [2] __________  on many fronts, from registration of births, creating a legal identity to health care, but in its forward march, it should not trample on the rights integral to a harmonious upbringing of a child. Leaning on a child’s fundamental right to privacy, the Supreme Court of India has ruled that children cannot be mechanically subjected to DNA tests in each and every case between [3] __________  parents as a shortcut to establishing infidelity. In a petition filed by a man who questioned his second child’s paternity, Justices V. Ramasubramanian and B.V. Nagarathna observed that genetic information sheds light on a person’s [4] __________ , going to the very heart of who she or he is. This “intimate, personal information” is part of a child’s fundamental right, the Court said. Children have the right, it pointed out, not to have their legitimacy questioned [5] __________  before a court of law.

Choose the most appropriate option for blank 2.

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has helped
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had help
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have helped
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are helped

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