I. Read the passage and answer the questions. (10) marks “My dear Mr. Bennet,” said his wife one day, “have you heard that Netherfiled Park

has been let at last?”

Mr. Bennet replied that he had not.

“But it has,” she replied. “Mrs. Long has just been here and she told me all about it.”

“Well, Mrs. Long says that Netherfield is taken by a young man of large fortune from

the north England, that he came down on Monday to see the place and was so

delighted with it that he agreed to take possession immediately.”

“What is his name?”

“Bingley,” she said.

“Is he married?”

“Oh, no, an unmarried man of large fortune, four or five thousand a year. What a fine

thing for our girls!”

“How can that be?”

“Mr. Bennet,” replied his wife, “you must know that I am thinking of his marrying

one of them.” “You must visit him as soon as he comes.”

“You and the girls may go, or, even better, you may send them by themselves,

because as you are as good-looking Mr. Bingley might like you the best of the party.”

“My dear, you praise me too highly. But when a woman has five grown-up daughters,

she ought to give up thinking of her own appearance. But you must go and see Mr.

Bingley when he comes.”

“But consider your daughters. You must go, because it will be impossible for us to

visit him, if you do not.”“I dare say Mr. Bingley will be very glad to see you, and I will send him a few words

by you to inform him of my hearty agreement to his marrying whichever of the girls

he chooses, though I most throw in a good word for my little Lizzy.”

“Lizzy is not a bit better than the others, but you are always giving her the

preference.”

He said, “They are all silly and empty-headed like other girls, but Lizzy is little more

intelligent than her sisters.

“Mr. Bennet, how can you speak of your own daughters in such a way?”

Mr. Bennet was such an odd mixture of cleverness, sharp humour, silence and

unexpected changes of mind, that the experience of twenty-three years had not been

enough to make his wife understand his character. Her mind was less difficult to

understand. The business of her life was to get her daughters married; its pleasure was

visiting and news.

a. What is the main idea of the whole passage?

b. Describe the character of Mr. Bennet.

c. Explain the character of Mrs. Bennet.

d. Give the synomyms for the word “fortune” used in the paragraph.

e. Find the word in the passage which means the same as “satisfied”.

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it is yes as the core issue is an ever increasing majority of human workers   will become permanently unemployed as ever cheaper ever more intelligent automated machines inevitably replace more expensive human workers with each passing year.

economic growth now and in the future requires that fewer jobs are created for human workers. this is the desirable inevitable consequence. the automation of the jobs of human workers is the most profitable economically productive activity on the planet.

so as a global society we need to have a plan to deal with this inevitable change.

automation has been, is and will always be a friend to human society if human society on a global basis is prepared to deal with the inevitable consequences.

what is key is that automation killing all jobs is only a matter of when not if.

the real question is can we get past the now invalid assumption that most humans can work for a decent wage going forward.

i spent my working career increasing automation and increasing efficiency. this consequently reduces the hours worked by humans while increasing the output economic goods and services at an ever decreasing price.

why not have ever cheaper ever more intelligent automated machines create the vast majority of required economic goods and services as opposed to human workers?

why not have most human workers working less and retiring earlier?

there is much more to life than working forever.

fortunately, automation has been going on for decades and will continue as an irreversible process as ever cheaper ever more intelligent automated machines permanently replace more costly human workers.

i write this answer for the people that have an open mind and are not living in the past this is what i feel most effectively deals with the tractable issues that automation creates.

the question at hand is how we deal with automation going forward as a society.

automation is only a threat because society has yet to acknowledge automation is happening let alone effectively a having a plan to address it.

a conservative libertarian free market idea where individuals choose what economic goods and services are produced in the free market as the free market supply will respond to free market demand. this is not a centrally planned communist economy.

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