Read the passage and answer 5 questions that follow:
High technology, or simply high-tech, is the latest generation of manufacturing activities. It is best understood as the application of intensive research and development (R and D) efforts leading to the manufacture of products of an advanced scientific and engineering character. Professional (white collar) workers make up a large share of the total workforce. These highly skilled specialists greatly outnumber the actual production (blue collar) workers. Robotics on the assembly line, computer-aided design (CAD) and manufacturing, electronic controls of smelting and refining processes, and the constant development of new chemical and pharmaceutical products are notable examples of a high-tech industry.
Neatly spaced, low, modern, dispersed, office-plant-lab buildings rather than massive assembly structures, factories and storage areas mark the high-tech industrial landscape. Planned business parks for high-tech start-ups have become part of regional and local development schemes.
High-tech industries which are regionally concentrated, self-sustained and highly specialised are called technopolies. The Silicon Valley near San Francisco and Silicon Forest near Seattle are examples of technopolies. Manufacturing contributes significantly to the world economy. Iron and steel, textiles, automobiles, petrochemicals and electronics are some of the world's most important manufacturing industries.
Which one of the following is not true about High-Tech industry?
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 3
The correct answer is Option (3) → It is traditionally located close to the raw materials
High-tech industry is the newest kind of manufacturing. It depends on research and on highly skilled professional workers, not on a bulky raw material.
Option (1) High-Tech is latest manufacturing Industry — True about high-tech industry. The passage states: “High technology, or simply high-tech, is the latest generation of manufacturing activities.”
Option (2) It is intensive research and development unit — True about high-tech industry. The passage states: “It is best understood as the application of intensive research and development (R and D) efforts leading to the manufacture of products of an advanced scientific and engineering character.”
Option (3) It is traditionally located close to the raw materials — Not true about high-tech industry. Industries that use cheap, bulky and weight-losing raw materials, such as steel, sugar and cement, are located close to the sources of raw material. High-tech units do not depend on such materials. They grow in planned business parks and in technopolies such as the Silicon Valley near San Francisco.
Option (4) Absence of massive structures, factories, storage etc. — True about high-tech industry. The passage states: “Neatly spaced, low, modern, dispersed, office-plant-lab buildings rather than massive assembly structures, factories and storage areas mark the high-tech industrial landscape.”