Question

In opposing Innovation
2.
PART B: Which TWO phrases from the text best support the answers to Part A?

A
"[The Luddites] fear[ed] that the introduction of mechanized equipment would make their skills worthless, and that they would lose their jobs as a result. …this anxiety turned into anger and a destructive force." ( Paragraph 3)
B
"By the 1860s, England had launched the historical Industrial Revolution, which brought unprecedented economic, technological, and social progress." ( Paragraph 6)
C
"Devol's invention of a digitally operated programmable robotic arm triggered an explosive change in the manufacturing industry" ( Paragraph 12)
D
"Statistics show that those low-level starting jobs of yesteryear are increasingly performed by robots." ( Paragraph 14)
E
"They were replaced by Internet firms that provide, more cheaply, a wide variety of services that range from maintaining calendars to planning foreign travel." ( Paragraph 16)
F
"But the unstoppable drive to innovate will no doubt bring dramatic changes and new challenges. We need to do all we can to be ready." ( Paragraph 24)

Answer 1

Options D and F are the options that support the answers in Part A.

Options D and F state that:

1. "Statistics show that those low-level starting jobs of yesteryear are increasingly performed by robots." ( Paragraph 14)
2. "But the unstoppable drive to innovate will no doubt bring dramatic changes and new challenges. We need to do all we can to be ready." ( Paragraph 24)

We can arrive at this answer because:

• The text "In opposing Innovation" shows how technological advancement transforms society.

• This transformation has both beneficial and harmful sides since on the one hand, it makes some jobs obsolete, which increases social inequality.

• However, on the other hand, technological advancement strengthens society and promotes economic, political, and social benefits.

This advance will change the way work is currently performed, especially in factories, but it is an advance that should be encouraged at all times.

Through questions similar to yours, we can see that part A shows that the central idea of ​​the text is that unskilled jobs in factories will be replaced by machines over time and that although this is a negative effect, the positive effects allow that technological advancement to be continued.

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