1. PART A: Which of the following TWO phrases best identify the central ideas of this article?
A Automated services are a cheaper, more effective, and less error-prone
alternative to employing humans in secretarial positions.
B. The original Luddites, fearful of their jobs being rendered obsolete by
technology, tried in vain to prevent that technology from being implemented.
C. George Devoľs invention, Unimate, caused civil unrest by revolutionizing the
structure of the American economy.
D. Unskilled factory jobs are increasingly difficult to hold onto; within 100 years
there will likely be no more factory jobs left in America.
E. Technological advancement may have both negative and positive economic
effects; what is certain is that it is a force that cannot be slowed.
The Industrial Revolution doomed progressive efforts to reduce income
inequality between the upper and lower classes.
F.

Select the contred text in the passage which sentence in this excerpt from john galsworthy's narrative essay "gone" reflects his view that there is no afterlife? an old woman and mrs. herd's sister were in the sitting-room, they showed us to the crazy, narrow stairway. though we lived distant but four hundred yards of a crows flight, we had never seen mrs. herd before, for that is the way of things in this land of minding one's own business a slight dark girlish-looking woman, almost quite refined away, and with those eyes of the dying, where the spirit is coming through, as it only does when it knows that al is over except just the passing. she lay in a double bed with clean white sheets. a white-washed room, so low that the ceiling almost touched our heads, some flowers in a bow, the small lattice window open. though it was hot in there, it was better far than the rooms of most families in towns, living on a wage of twice as much, for here was no sign of defeat in decency or cleanliness. in her face, as in poor herd's, was that same strange minging of resigned despair and almost eager appeal, so terrible to disappoint. yet, trying not to disappoint it, one felt guilty of treachery: what was the good, the kindness in making this poor bird flutter still with hope against the bars, when fast prison had so surely closed in round her? but what else could we do? we could not give her those glib assurances that naive souls make so easily to others concerning their after state. and the night was so beautiful, so utterly glamourously beautiful, with its star-flowers, and its silence and its trees clothed in moonlight. all was tranquil as a dream of sleep. but it was long before our hearts wandering with poor herd, would let us remember that she had slipped away into so beautiful a dream

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What offres the advantages of drawing conclusions quickly without testing every possible example