IELTS Reading vocabulary Practice
The long-standing industrial strategy of ______ has conditioned consumers to accept that products have a short life.
Question type: sentence completion · Difficulty: intermediate
- A. psychological ownership
- B. planned obsolescence
- C. product-as-a-service
- D. grassroots activism
Explanation Preview
Paragraph C directly addresses this: 'Compounding this challenge is the legacy of 'planned obsolescence', an industrial strategy wherein products are deliberately designed with a limited lifespan... consumers have been conditioned over generations to expect and accept disposability.'