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:
I have always opposed the idea of dividing the world into the Orient and the Occident.It is, however, the tremendous industrial growth that has made the West what it is. I think the difference, say, between India and Europe in the 12th or 13th century would not have been very great. Differences have been intensified by this process of industrialization which has promoted material well-being tremendously and which is destroying the life of the mind, which is in a process of deterioration, chiefly because the environment that has been created by it does not give time or opportunity to individuals to think. If the life of the mind is not encouraged, then inevitably civilization collapses.
The words “the Orient and the Occident” mean
- Athe West and the East respectively
- Bthe East and the West respectively
- Cthe North and the South respectively
- Dthe South and the North respectively
Explanation
'Orient' means the East and 'Occident' the West. The question lists them in the order 'the Orient and the Occident,' so the answer is 'the East and the West respectively.' Option (a) reverses the order, while (c) and (d) introduce the North and South, which are unrelated. Hence (b) is correct.