English - Close Test

Technology (1) lives. But (2) if people want it to. This qualification is important, and (3) to understand progress. Akio Morita, the founder of Sony. used to make inventions not by writing code but by making minute, detailed studies of (4) people lived their lives. It is observable that when he relinquished direct involvement in product development at the company in the 1980s, Sony seemed to lose its (5) of developing a truly radical invention like the walkman that the world takes to en masse.


However much it seems that machines are in (6), they are not. Yet the belief that technology alone holds the key to (7) the way people work, buy, and do business is strong. The rise of dotcoms in the late 1990s was (8) by a belief that technology was changing the rules of marketing and employee relationships. This I not to say there have been no changes in the new economy; but that they (9) to appear where technology makes it (10) for people to communicate with each other, or have been unrelated to the technology. The dynamic is still a human one.

1.
(1) ruins
(2) changes
(3) makes
(4) explains

2.

(1) not

(2) occasionally

(3) seldom

(4) only

(5) never

3.

(1) key
(2) primarily

(3) encouraging

(4) supported

(5) disastrous

4.

(1) why
(2) where

(3) when

(4) whether

(5) how

5.

(1) share
(2) profit

(3) knack

(4) business

(5) plant

6.

(1) progress
(2) control

(3) action

(4) operation

(5) transition

7.

(1) encouraging
(2) accomplishing

(3) determining

(4) highlighting

(5) informing

8.

(1) govern
(2) successful

(3) underlying

(4) disputed

(5) accompanied

9.
(1) tend
(2) cease
(3) fail
(4) refuse
(5) avoid



10.
(1) essential
(2) laborious
(3) tough
(4) easier
(5) awkward

ANS : 4