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 title that best expresses the central idea of the passage is
- Adifference between the Occident and the Orient
- Bimpact of Industrialization on our civilization
- Cadvantages of Industrialization
- Ddisadvantages of Industrialization
Explanation
The passage's central argument is industrialization's destructive effect on the life of the mind and hence on civilization itself. Option (b), the impact of industrialization on our civilization, captures this thesis. Option (a) is only the opening aside, while (c) and (d) each capture only one side of the argument. Hence (b) is correct.