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16.  Throughout the ages the businessman has helped build civilisation's great cities, provided people with luxuries and artists with patronage, and lift his fellow citizens to understand the standard of living. In the last few centuries the businessman has seeded the Industrial Revolution around the world. The passage best supports the statement that the businessman -
A. is accountable to the society.
B. lives luxurious and comfortable life.
C. is the beneficiary of the Industrial Revolution.
D. is capable of raising his standard of living.

17.  There is a shift in our economy from a manufacturing to a service orientation. The increase in service-sector will require the managers to work more with people rather than with objects and things from the assembly line. This passage best supports the statement that:
A. managers should have a balanced mind.
B. assembly line will exist in service organisations.
C. interpersonal skills will become more important in the future work place.
D. manufacturing organisations ignore importance of people.

18.  The virtue of art does not allow the work to be interfered with or immediately ruled by anything other than itself. It insists that it alone shall touch the work in order to bring it into being. Art requires that nothing shall attain the work except through art itself. This passage best supports the statement that:
A. art is governed by external rules and conditions.
B. art is for the sake of art and life.
C. art is for the sake of art alone.
D. artist realises his dreams through his artistic creation.