Question

Concept of High Technology Industry - 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 specialized are called technopolies. The Silicon Valley near San Francisco and Silicon Forest near Seattle are examples of technopolies.

High-tech industries which are regionally concentrated, self-sustained and highly specialised are called:

• A. Minneapolis
• B. Technopolies
• C. Metropolis
• D. Megalopolis

Hint:

The passage itself names these regions in its definition sentence.

Answer 1

The Correct Option is B

Step 1: What is being asked.
We have to give the name for a regional cluster of specialised high-tech industries.

Step 2: Split the choices.
Minneapolis, metropolis and megalopolis all deal with towns and cities. Technopolies is the only word that joins technology with a place of concentration.

Step 3: Match with the passage.
The passage uses the very same description, regionally concentrated, self-sustained and highly specialised, and gives the name technopolies.

Step 4: Rule out choice 1.
Minneapolis is just the name of a city, so it is not a general term.

Step 5: Rule out choice 3.
A metropolis is a big city, with no link to industry type.

Step 6: Rule out choice 4.
A megalopolis is a chain of merged urban areas, which is a settlement idea and not an industry idea.

Step 7: Second check.
Recheck by reading the definition once more. Regionally concentrated, self-sustained and highly specialised is the full description of a technopolis. The passage then gives the plural form, technopolies. The three other words are about cities, not industries, so choice 2 stands.

Final Answer:
Choice 2 is the only fit. \[ \boxed{\text{Option 2}} \]