APPENDIX 2
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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 September 2014
Summary
This appendix consists of three sections: 1) the analysis of the English text; 2) the analysis of the Polish text and 3) the comparison of the two texts.
1. The analysis of the English text
First the text is presented, then the analysis.
IS PROGRESS OBSOLETE?
A NOTED HISTORIAN ARGUES THAT THE DREAM HAS BECOME FAR TOO EXCLUSIVE
1) Progress and democracy, we assume, go hand in hand. Progress means abundance: more labor-saving machines, more comforts, more choices. It means a rich life for everyone, not for the privileged classes alone. Or so we used to believe, until recent events began to suggest that progress may have limits after all.
2) Compared with the rest of the world, industrial nations enjoy a lavish standard of living. The affluence generated by industrialism looks even more impressive when compared with living standards that prevailed throughout most of the millennium now drawing to a close. Goods that would once have been considered luxuries have become staples of everyday consumption. Medicine has reduced infant mortality and conquered many of the diseases that formerly struck down people in their prime. A vast increase in life expectancy dramatizes the contrast between our world and that of our ancestors in the distant past.
3) To be sure, we pay a price for progress. Constant change gives rise to widespread nervousness and anxiety. In solving old problems, we often create new ones in their place.
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- Reading Comprehension in Polish and EnglishEvidence from an Introspective Study, pp. 201 - 210Publisher: Jagiellonian University PressPrint publication year: 2013