In this section, you have short passages. After each passage, you will find some items based on the passage. Read the passage carefully and answer the items based on it. You are required to select your answers based solely on the contents of the passage and the opinion of the author.
Passage:
Urbanization and industrialization have often resulted in whole areas of forests being cleared to gain new land and to obtain timber for the various building projects. Large areas of fields and forests have disappeared to make way for concrete jungles many of which are fitted with huge plants and chimney stacks. Industrial growth has necessitated the increased demand for fuel oil to run the machines and in doing so produces industrial gases and fumes which belch through the chimney and pollute the atmosphere. The most evident elements in the contamination of the atmosphere are dust, sulphur dioxide, carbon monoxide and nitrous oxide.
The writer expresses the belief that
- Athere is plenty of scope for further industrialization.
- Bunplanned growth of industry has done more harm than good.
- Cthe change from rural to urban growth is a change for the better.
- Dthe timber obtained from the forests has been beneficially used.
Explanation
The passage describes forests cleared for land and timber, fields lost to 'concrete jungles', and the atmosphere polluted by industrial gases: an entirely negative account of industrial growth. The writer presents no benefits and no scope for further industry. The implied judgement is that this growth has done more harm than good. Hence option (b) is correct.