Interpreting the underlying tone on the relationship between leisure and education
Question
Which of the following statements best reflects the underlying tone of the passage?
Options
Only an educated population can best make use of the benefits of economic progress.
All economic development should be aimed at the creation of leisure.
An increase in the educated population of a country leads to an increase in the happiness of its people.
Use of machines should be encouraged in order to create a large leisured population.
Explanation
The author establishes a conditional relationship: machines create leisure (economic progress), but leisure is tedious unless people are equipped with "intelligent activities and interests." To actually enjoy this leisure, the population "must be an educated population." Therefore, education is the absolute prerequisite to successfully utilizing the benefits of machine productivity. Option (a) precisely captures this necessity. Option (c) is a generic platitude that misses the economic context, while (b) and (d) confuse the byproduct (leisure) with the core requirement (education).
Answer: (a).
Question details
Year
2022
Paper
CSAT
Question
Q51
Section
Reading Comprehension
Sub-topic
Economy / Society passage
Type
Factual single
Difficulty
Hard
Source hint
Passage 1 (Leisure and education) - Q51
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