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 author believes that the difference between India and Europe in the 12th or 13th century was not very great because
- AIndians and Europeans mixed freely
- BIndians imitated the European way of living
- CEuropeans imitated the Indian way of living
- DIndustrialization had not yet taken place
Explanation
The author says the 12th/13th-century difference between India and Europe 'would not have been very great,' because the tremendous industrial growth that made the West what it is had not yet taken place. Options (a), (b), and (c) invent claims about peoples mixing or imitating each other that the passage never makes. Hence (d) is correct.