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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.

For Industrial prosperity. 'modernity snobbery' is Important because it induces people to

A)  buy only the most expensive articles to maintain social position

B)  help in the production of duplicate articles

C)  buy articles which are perishable

D)  discard old things for new ones