Read the passage and mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the best answer to each of the following questions from 2...

Read the passage and mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the best answer to each of the following questions from 23 to 30.

        Across much of the globe, internet connectivity now permeates daily life: households go online, workplaces rely on cloud systems, and civic forums migrate to digital venues. After 2011, when a UN resolution framed access as integral to expression and transparency, many commentators began to treat connectivity as quasi-constitutional. While the declaration was nonbinding, its normative force has been potent, recasting the web not as a luxury but as infrastructural to democratic participation, social ties, and the discovery of knowledge in an increasingly digitized commons.

        Yet access remains starkly unequal. Rural regions lacking infrastructure, residents of poorer states, and especially people in carceral settings face restrictions. In many U.S. prisons, inmates are fully offline; some are disciplined when relatives post for them. Others dictate blog posts via phone or mail essays to friends, while a few obtain contraband phones, risking severe sanctions. Limited, pay-to-use tablets and closed intranets sometimes exist, but time caps and fees can be onerous for prisoners and their families.

        Critics voice public-safety anxieties – contraband, harassment, or digital fraud – if prisons liberalize access. Those concerns, however, can be tempered by design choices: whitelists, purpose-built apps, logging, and geofenced devices. Properly supervised systems could expand access without unleashing the very harms critics dread. Such guardrails preserve accountability while enabling transformative functions: taking credited courses, practicing language skills, building baseline digital literacy, and maintaining pro-social ties beyond the cellblock. In short, supervision and customization allow utility without conceding security.

        Educational exposure and lawful online practice correlate with lower recidivism; giving inmates structured access cultivates skills they can parlay into work after release. Digital coursework can curb idle time without expanding costly classrooms, and curated platforms accustom users to the etiquette of contemporary communication. Over time, better-prepared individuals reenter communities, reducing churn and improving collective safety. The aggregate effect is not merely personal uplift but institutional stabilization, as fewer people cycle back through overburdened facilities.

(Adapted from federalcriminaldefenseattorney.com)

Question 23. Which of the following is TRUE according to paragraph 1?

A. The UN imposed legal penalties on countries that block the internet.

B. Internet access was unanimously made a constitutional right worldwide.

C. The UN’s stance reshaped norms by casting connectivity as essential to public life.

D. The resolution mandated free broadband for all households.