Independent work I variant Reading task. Reading

EXERCISE 2: Choose the correct answer according to the passage.

1. The points put forward in the lecture "The Terror of Change"

A) have changed scholars from a sense of optimism to one of gloom

B) are, for the most part, accepted

C) had not been considered by scholars previously

D) caused much debate and disagreement

E) filled several volumes

2. According to the writer, having no equivalents in the past

A) analyses formulated by experts are open to discussion

B) books on the world's problems cause a great deal of debate

C) Third World megacities are not sufficiently aided

D) modern technological developments do not meet the needs of the people

E) today's problems require new solutions