Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions that follow.
We are tempted to assume that technological progress is real progress and that material success is the criterion of civilisation. If the Eastern people become fascinated by machines and techniques and use them, as Western nations do, to build huge industrial organisations and large military establishments, they will get involved in power politics and drift into the danger of death. Scientific and technological civilisation brings great opportunities and great rewards but also great risks and temptations. Science and technology are neither good nor bad. They are not to be tabooed but tamed and assigned their proper place. They become dangerous only if they become idols.
According to the author, people think that real progress lies in

Options

A. material success and technological growth
B. worshipping idols and having faith in them
C. having large industries and political power
D. taking risks and facing temptations

Answer

A