Read carefully the passage given below and answer the questions that follow:
Machines alone
cannot keep pace with civilization. We should try to become more civilized. For
the machines themselves, and the power which the machines have given us, are
not civilization, but aids to civilization. It must be known that civilization
rests on our thinking and behaving. We all agree that being civilized means
making beautiful things, thinking freely and living rightly and maintaining
justice equally between man and man. Man has a better chance to-day to do these
things than he ever had before; he has more time, more energy, less to fear and
less to fight against except for the dangers he has himself created. If he will
give this time and energy, which his machines have won for him, to making more
beautiful things, to finding out more and more about the universe, to removing
the cause of quarrels between nations, to discovering how to prevent poverty,
then I think our civilization would undoubtedly be the greatest, as it would be
the most lasting, than there has ever been.
Questions:
1. Do more
machines make us more civilized? :
2. What does
being civilized mean?
3. How can
machines and machine power help man to become more civilized?
4. What
advantages have machines given to modern man?
5. Find out
words from the given passage which have the following meanings:
(ii) to stop
from happening
(iii) the speed
at which one walks or runs
(iv) lies
