The assault on the purity of the environment is the price that we pay for many of the benefits of modern technology. For the advantages of automotive transportation we pay a price in smog-induced diseases; for the powerful effects of new insecticides, we pay a price in dwindling wildlife and disturbances in the relation of living things and their surroundings; for nuclear power, we risk the biological hazards of radiation. By increasing agricultural production with fertilizers, we increase water pollution.
The highly developed nations of the world are not only the immediate beneficiaries of the good that technology can do, they are also the first victims of the environmental diseases that technology breeds. In the past, the environmental effects which accompanied technological progress were restricted to a small place and relatively short time. The new hazards are neither local nor brief. Modern air pollution covers vast areas of continents. Radioactive fallout for nuclear explosions is worldwide. Radioactive pollutants now on the Earth’s surface will be found there for generations, and in the case of Carnob-14, for thousands of years.
QUESTIONS:
1. The passage emphasizes that modern technology
(A) is totally avoidable.
(B) has caused serious hazards to life.
(C) has greater effect on developed countries.
(D) is the source of the miseries of mankind.
2. The harmful effects of modern technology are
(A) widespread but short lived.
(B) widespread and long lasting.
(C) local and long lasting.
(D) severe but short lived.
3. With reference to passage, the following assumptions have been made :
1. The widespread use of insecticides has caused ecological imbalance.
2. Conservation of natural flora and fauna is impossible in this age of modern technology.
Which of the assumptions is/are valid ?
(A) 1 only
(B) 2 only
(C) Both 1 and 2
(D) Neither 1 and 2
(Source: CDS-I Exam Paper English – 2012)
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