PART A: Which of the following TWO phrases best identify the central ideas of this article?
A. Automated services are a cheaper, more effective, and less error-prone
alternative to employing humans in secretarial positions.
B. The original Luddites, fearful of their jobs being rendered obsolete by
technology, tried in vain to prevent that technology from being implemented.
C. George Devol’s invention, Unimate, caused civil unrest by revolutionizing the
structure of the American economy.
D. Unskilled factory jobs are increasingly difficult to hold onto; within 100 years
there will likely be no more factory jobs left in America.
E. Technological advancement may have both negative and positive economic
effects; what is certain is that it is a force that cannot be slowed.
F. The Industrial Revolution doomed progressive efforts to reduce income
inequality between the upper and lower classes.