Q8 - The traditional way to define the difference

[kyuya]

The author suggests that due to technology, urban and rural divide should be contingent not on geography, but on the frequency people communicate electronically. He gives the rural community less communication with technology, and the urban have more communication by technology.

The author is suggesting that it makes more sense to define urban/rural this way, therefore putting geography on the periphery as a necessary condition for the terms.

(A) This is the correct answer. The author suggests it is superseding by stating, "it makes more sense to draw the distinction in informational terms...". The stimulus is about how technology has made geography much less important.

(B) This is simply never stated. The amount of satisfaction felt by people is never discussed.

(C) This is wrong.

The word "communication" is left to be too vague here. The stimulus explicitly states that we are on the look out for communication electronically -- a distinction that is important. It is very possible people in the rural communities communicate MORE frequently in traditional terms than those in rural areas.

(D) This is never stated - information revolution is never even spoken about. Furthermore, the foresight needed to see what the future holds with new advances in technology and information is also never spoken about.

(E) This is really far off. Never speaks about people moving at all in the stimulus, rather, it is about people NOT having to move to be able to define their lifestyle.