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4 Question 22. A. Provided that the mandate endures beyond news cycles will interventions stop being synonymous with indefinite emergency B. Were the mandate endures beyond news cycles will interventions stop being synonymous with indefinite emergency C. Lest the mandate endures beyond news cycles will interventions stop being synonymous with indefinite emergency D. Only when the mandate endures beyond news cycles will interventions stop being synonymous with indefinite emergency Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D to indicate the correct answer to each of the questions from 23 to 30. The latest discourse around “quiet quitting” has less to do with resignation than recalibration. In knowledge economies saturated with metrics and performative availability, employees report an exhaustion that is not merely physical but existential: the sense that one’s discretionary effort has been colonized. The term names a counter-move – drawing firmer boundaries – yet the debate mistakes this for apathy rather than a reassertion of proportionality at work. A tighter definition distinguishes tactical disengagement from indifference. To refuse unpaid elasticity is not to abdicate responsibility; it is to insist that deliverables be matched by commensurate recognition and viable workloads. In organizations where structural factors – low autonomy, opaque evaluation, ambient surveillance – amplify burnout, “quiet quitting” functions as harm reduction. Instead of theatrical overcommitment, workers practice calibrated diligence, fulfilling contracts while withholding the self-annihilating surplus that previously masqueraded as devotion. Skeptics object that such boundary-making undermines collaboration. Yet empirical accounts suggest that measured limits can stabilize teams: the predictability of effort tempers crash cycles and curbs the moral hazard whereby managers bank on unpriced overtime. Where leadership reframes output around clarity and cadence rather than omnipresence, morale can recover. The question, then, is not whether enthusiasm has vanished, but whether enthusiasm can survive without institutional reciprocity. The narrative’s virality owes much to social platforms that reward polemic. But beneath the noise lies a governance problem: when career ladders narrow and inflation eclipses wage growth, the romance of extra miles fades. What many label “checking out” is, for some, a prudent response to asymmetries of power and pay. In that sense, quiet quitting exposes a contradiction at the heart of modern employment: an enterprise that lionizes passion while systemically underpricing it. (Adapted from The Atlantic, “What Is Quiet Quitting? A Burnout Expert Discusses”) Question 23. The word recalibration in paragraph 1 is closest in meaning to _______. A. intensification B. realignment C. amplification D. recuperation Question 24. Which of the following is NOT mentioned in paragraph 1 as part of the backdrop to “quiet quitting”? A. Metric-saturated workplaces B. Performative availability C. Increased paid vacation allotments D. Colonization of discretionary effort Question 25. Which of the following best paraphrases the underlined sentence in paragraph 3? A. When executives equate performance with constant visibility and round-the-clock availability, team morale tends to rebound as schedules become more predictable. B. If management redefines productivity mainly by sheer volume of deliverables, morale will eventually stabilise regardless of leaders’ presence or absence. C. When leaders recast results in terms of transparent goals and sustainable work rhythms – rather than policing perpetual visibility – employees’ morale is likely to recover. D. Only by remaining permanently online and issuing continual directives can supervisors revive morale, since cadence without omnipresence invites drift. Question 26. The word tempers in paragraph 3 is OPPOSITE in meaning to _______. A. moderates B. mitigates C. intensifies D. softens