Read the text. Then choose the correct answer to questions 30-32

c. science is not always beneficial to mankind
d. personal liberties are the things we should fight for
23. The writer believes that the only way to avoid war ........................ .
a. cannot be found within the next half century
b. is to give up certain much loved liberties
c. is to submit everything to arbitration
d. is by a voluntary lowering of economic standards
24. A suitable title for this text could be ........................ .
a. What Choice to Make?
b. Another Nuclear War
c. Einstein and His Theories
d. The Extermination of Mankind
Today, Canada is in the grip of a sudden industrial revolution. While the first, something from the 1860s to the 1960s, shattered the main section of the Canadian economy from agriculture to industry, the new revolution is changing the economy away from traditional smokestack manufacturing industries to those based upon information, services and new technologies. It took the country years to get used to the cultural and social changes resulting from the first industrial revolution, and it would be rashly optimistic to assume that Canadians will not face serious stresses in coming to terms with the changes that are transforming the workplace today.
1. It can be understood from the passage that the Canadian economy ____.
a. was, at the beginning, largely an agricultural one
b. was, from the start, based on heavy industry
c. has, over the years, undergone very little radical changes
d. has recently entered a period of recession
2. The passage points out that the change in Canada from an agricultural to an industrial economy ____.
a. was bitterly opposed by a large segment of society
b. was achieved in a very short period of time, actually only about two decades
c. made the use of information technologies indispensable 127


d. brought with it many new cultural and social conditions which took years to resolve
3. The author has the opinion that the Canadians____.