Post-UTME English Language 2017 Objective — Question 2

[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.] According to the passage, the introduction of computers is

• A. meant to create unemployment
• B. a response to the growing complexity of modern business
• C. to help provide jobs for few well-trained professionals
• D. to facilitate cheque clearing and weather forecasting computerCorrect