Reading passages

168- It is argued in the passage that ................ .
A) questions of increased output must be given 
priority 
B) economic progress depends largely on 
technological developments 
C) society was slow to realise the need to invest in 
man 
D) expenditures should be evenly distributed 
among the secretary 
E) improvements in the health services are urgently 
required 
After 1930s the Western world realised that it was 
leading in another age of absolutism or rather, an 

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age of totalitarian dictatorship much worse than 
the worst of the old absolute kings: such regimes 
could be seen to be enforcing a ―law‖ that was the 
command hardly of a ―sovereign‖ but of cruel and 
genocidal despot. It was ordinary people who 
protested: ―This cannot be law. Law, if it is to 
deserve the name of law, must respect at least 
some basic rights to which every human being is 
entitled simply because he is human.‖
 
169- According to the passage, in comparison with 
the absolute kings of the past, modern dictators 
................ .
A) have illustrated a relatively high respect for the 
rights of the individual 
B) have been much more cruel and oppressive 
C) have received great support from ordinary 
people
D) have always been anxious to rule in a fair 
manner
E) have shown tendency to the enforcement of law 
 
170- The writer explains that a major distinctive 
feature of ―law‖ is .................. .
A) to uphold respect for the king 
B) that it disregards the rights of human beings 
C) to prevent the rise of totalitarianism in the world 
D) to respect for basic human rights 
E) that it ought to make a return to absolutism 
impossible