8 Read the two texts. For questions 1–5, choose the correct answer, A, B, C or D.


1 According to the first text, the Luddite protests
started because
A unemployment benefits had stopped.
B there was no work for unskilled workers.
C a lot of people didn’t have enough money to eat.
D the government broke their promise to help
people.

2 The writer of the first text does not mention
A any deaths resulting from the protest.
B how factory owners fought back against
protestors.
C how the protests affected the law in Britain.
D in which parts of the country the attacks
happened.

3 Ned Ludd
A is as famous now as the group which took his
name.
B and his attack on machinery was reported in the
newspapers at the time it happened.
C was in the British army before becoming a
protestor.
D first became well-known in the same year that the
protests took place.

4 The author of the second text says that
A we should find jobs that won’t change over our
lifetime.
B technology is threatening a wider range of jobs
now than in the past.
C technology nowadays is not really threatening
jobs in the same way that it used to.
D people are to blame if they have lost their job to
technology.

5 The two texts talk about
A the effect of new technology on the workforce.
B how the word Luddite is misunderstood.
C individuals who have made technology work for
them.
D a mythical person leading a protest group.​