Directions: Read the passage carefully and choose the best answer to the question out of the four alternatives given. The last millennium, the century to which we have said goodbye, has witnessed…
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Directions: Read the passage carefully and choose the best answer to the question out of the four alternatives given.
The last millennium, the century to which we have said goodbye, has witnessed remarkable progress in every branch of Science and Technology. Our planet became a global village due to the ongoing information revolution. The biological revolution has placed in our hands the power to alter the blue prints of life. Similarly; there has been spectacular progress in the perfection of weapons of human destruction. However, the fact is that our socio-cultural and ethical evolution has not kept pace with the revolution in science.
The last millennium, the century to which we have said goodbye, has witnessed remarkable progress in every branch of Science and Technology. Our planet became a global village due to the ongoing information revolution. The biological revolution has placed in our hands the power to alter the blue prints of life. Similarly; there has been spectacular progress in the perfection of weapons of human destruction. However, the fact is that our socio-cultural and ethical evolution has not kept pace with the revolution in science.
What has made our planet a "global village"?
- Liberalisation and free markets
- Information revolution
- Evolution in socio-cultural values
- Revolution in science and technology
Answer and explanation
Correct answer: B - Information revolution
The passage says our planet became a global village “due to the ongoing information revolution”. Progress in science and technology is the wider background, not the stated cause, and liberalisation or socio-cultural values are not mentioned as reasons at all.
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