2025 CSAT — Q72

Locate. This asks for the central idea, so hold the two threads the passage keeps together: trust is valuable (the “essence of globalizing behaviour,” a “super-commodity”) and trust is risky (it means “being vulnerable to others,” “willingness to expose oneself to betrayal”). The crux lives where those two threads meet. That pairing is the anchor.

Test (thesis-vs-detail + scope-fit). The key must keep both threads — importance and risk — without dropping or inflating either. (d) — “Trust is important though it entails risk” — holds both at the right strength.

Eliminate by anatomy. (a) gets the direction backwards — “trustworthiness cannot be expected in entrepreneurship” contradicts the passage, which says entrepreneurship implies trust. (b) is half right, half wrong and gets the direction backwards — it inverts “trust = vulnerability” into “trustworthy people are the most vulnerable,” a different (and unsupported) claim about people. (c) over-states the case — “no economic activity is possible without being exposed to betrayal” universalises the entrepreneurship/expert-systems point into an absolute about all economic activity. The transferable rule: when a passage couples a value with its cost, the key keeps both at measured strength. Key: (d).

“Trust stands commonly defined as being vulnerable to others. Entrepreneurship implies trust in others and willingness to expose oneself to betrayal. Trust in expert systems is the essence of globalizing behaviour; trust itself emerges as a super-commodity in the social market.” The crux is that trust is essential (to entrepreneurship, the global market) even though it means vulnerability to betrayal — i.e. trust is important though it entails risk (d).

The passage defines trust as “being vulnerable to others,” says entrepreneurship “implies trust… and willingness to expose oneself to betrayal,” and calls trust “the essence of globalizing behaviour” and a “super-commodity.” It holds together two ideas: trust is essential to economic life, and it entails the risk of betrayal. The crux is that trust is important though it entails risk.

(d) captures both. Answer: (d).

The dangerous distractor is (c): it is directionally right (trust involves exposure to betrayal) but over-universalised — the passage speaks of entrepreneurship and globalizing behaviour, not all economic activity, and it frames trust as valuable-but-risky, not as betrayal-being-mandatory. (d) preserves the passage’s actual balance — important though risky. On a “crux” item that pairs a benefit with its cost, choose the option that keeps the pairing intact rather than the one that absolutises the cost.