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 says that the mental life of the world is in a process of deterioration because the modem generation is
- Aendowed with low mental powers
- Btoo lazy to exert its mental powers
- Ctaught that physical activities are more important than mental
- Dbrought up in an environment. unfavourable to the growth of the mental life
Explanation
The passage gives the cause explicitly: the mental life deteriorates 'chiefly because the environment that has been created by it does not give time or opportunity to individuals to think.' That is, people are brought up in an environment unfavourable to the growth of the mental life. Options (a), (b), and (c) all misstate this cause. Hence (d) is correct.