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.
In the opinion of the author, Industrialization is
- Aan absolute blessing
- Ban absolute curse
- Cneither a blessing nor a curse
- Dmore of a curse than a blessing
Explanation
The author grants industrialization's material benefits but argues it is 'destroying the life of the mind,' warning that without the life of the mind 'civilization collapses.' It is therefore more of a curse than a blessing. It is not an absolute blessing (a), since the mental damage is stressed; not an absolute curse (b), since material well-being is admitted; and not neutral (c). Hence (d) is correct.