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Post-UTME English Language 2017 Objective — Question 1

Question 1 of 60 from the Post-UTME Screening (Post-UTME) English Language 2017 Objective paper, with the correct answer and a full explanation.

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[Passage: on hostility towards computers - discusses the fear of unemployment from computerization (e.g. the historic burning of Jacquard's punched-card looms by weavers), balanced against the jobs computers create (fewer, but more skilled and better-paid), activities (like bank cheque-clearing and weather forecasting) that could not function without computers, and the varying attitudes of trade unions to computers as both a threat and a source of greater efficiency.] The theme of the first paragraph of this passage is

  • A. hostility towards computers
  • B. burning of Jacquard's punched-cards-operated looms
  • C. unemployment resulting from computerized systems
  • D. computers and the fear they createCorrect

Explanation

The first paragraph broadly discusses the hostility towards computers rooted in the fear (of unemployment) that they create - option D best captures this overall theme.

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