| 25. The first car appeared on British roads in 1888. By the
year 2000 there may be as many as 29 million vehicles on British
roads. Alternative forms of transport should be encouraged and international
laws introduced to control car ownership and use. What do you think?
Give reasons for your answer.
26. The threat of nuclear weapons maintains world peace. Nuclear
power provides cheap and clean energy. The benefits of nuclear
technology far outweigh the disadvantages. Give reasons for your
answer.
27. People can do longer expect a job for life. What should
individuals and governments do to prepare the current and future
environments for different working conditions?
28. As technological innovation brings about rapid changes
and retraining becomes a lifelong necessity, industry should take
over more and more of the responsibility for education.
29. It is more important for governments to ensure adequate
standards of housing, education and health care for their citizens
by developing the industrial base than to use their resources
to develop the rural areas.
30. Business education and training today must promoter environmental
awareness.
31. Whilst studying abroad provides an opportunity to broaden
one‘s experience, it also presents the danger of negative influences
from the host culture.
32. Technological advances continue to improve manufacturing
efficiency; the weight of a drinks can has come down from thirty-five
grams to about fifteen grams, for example, and modern cars and
production techniques are much more energy efficient. Governments
need to control the environment rather than controlling industry,
as companies already control their resources very efficiently.
33. Training for work is far more important than proving a
broad-based education.
34. What steps should a student take in preparing for tertiary
education and what would be the benefit of taking such steps?
35. The developed world should lead by example and not insist
that aid to the Third World is used to develop rural areas.
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