Direction: Improve the bracketed part of the sentence.
Election was an 'opinion minus democracy' in which the innocent and helpless (people were pitted among) government's muscle power State machinery

Options

A. A) people were pitted against
B. B) people are pitted against
C. C) would pitted against
D. D) No Improvement

Answer

A

Explanation

Pit somebody/something against somebody/ something : to cause one person, group or thing to fight against or be in competition with another.
Look at the sentence :
The climbers pitted themselves against the mountain.
The sentence shows Past time. Hence, people were pitted against .... should be used here.