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Direction: In the following questions, you have two brief passages with 5 questions following each passage. Read the passages carefully and choose the best answer to each question out of the four alter- natives.

Modernity- snobbery, though not exclusive to our age, has come to assume an unprecedented importance. The reasons for this are simple and of a strictly economic character. Thanks to modem machinery, production is outrunning consumption. Organized waste among consumers is the first condition of our industrial prosperity. The sooner a consumer throws away the object he has bought and buys another, the better for the; producer. At the same time the producer must do his bit by producing nothing but the most perish-able articles.

According to the author, 'modern machinery' is giving rise to

A)  more waste

B)  industrial prosperity.

C)  more markets

D)  variety to the consumers