Read the following passage and answer question 1 to 7
Fifty Years ago, before the poor had become class conscious m there were several subjects, such as economics and imperial affairs, of which they were comparative ignorant, In regard to these subjects they were prepared to accept the opinion of those who had studied them all their lives. Today, owing to the distrust created by class propaganda, we can count on no such acquiescence. An uneducated or untraveled person is unlikely today to give credence to the advice or information provided by somebody whom he assumes to belongs to the capitals class, He had been taught that the aim of the conservative Party and its sponsors is to delude the bobble worker and to tell him lies. Thus the assertions of those who are really informed on a difficult subject are met by derisive laughter, whereas the catchwords and difficult subject are met by derisive laughter, whereas the catchword and headline stuff doled out by the party propagandists are take to be incontestable truth and wisdom. This since the days of Thirties, has been the familiar device of demagogues, It is easier to laugh than to understand, easier to fester with suspicion of others than to glow with confident. The proletariat always prefer the easier path, especially when they are assured that is ti a praiseworthy path leading directly to their own interests.
Ages of acquiescence are always, so we assured, followed by ages of denial; for several centuries mankind will accept the established order and continue to live, generation by generation, according to the old unquestioned pattern then suddenly some ferment is introduced which sets the whole community bobbing and the crust is destroyed. During these periods of negation it is customary for those who direct the revolution to teach the people to deny and to distrust event the best and truest things that they are laugh in the past ; It is not only that they must deride the ancient formulas’ it is also that they must suspect of the very worst motives of any of those who seek even to explain them. Today we have on each side of the great divide examples of both systems. To the East, we have an area of apparent acquiescence, in which many millions of men and women, who cannot all the stupid accepts as truth statements and ideas that to rational belongs are palpably false. To the West, we have many millions of men and women, who cannot all be stupid accept as truth statements and ideas that to rational benign are palpably false. To the West, we have many millions of men and women, most of whom are intelligent and sentient, who refuse to accept as truth statements and ideas that really can withstand the most searching interesting exanimation. This contrast between the gullible and the incredulous is an interesting, and t my mind, encouraging thing to observe. It suggests that those who believe everything that they are told are condemned to a mental stagnation that can only end in decay; Whereas those who refuse to believe anything, even when told by reputable authorities, are doubtless being extremely silly, but are also very much alive. Those are the sort of people whom it is worthily trying to educate. But by what means are we to inculcate the habit of responsible thinking? Only, I suggest, by wily tact.