Directions for questions 6 and 7: The following questions have a paragraph from which the last sentence has been deleted. From the given options, choose the one that completes the paragraph in the most appropriate way.Almost everyone praises education, but consensus dissolves over who should pay for it. This dilemma runs deep in our history, back to the founders who led the American Revolution and designed a more participatory form of government, known as a republic. They declared that Americans needed more and better education to preserve their state and national republics from relapsing into tyranny. A governor of Virginia, William H. Cabell, asserted in 1808 that education “constitutes one of the great pillars on which the civil liberties of a nation depend.” ______More than a mere boon for individuals, education must teach citizens to distinguish worthy from treacherous candidates for office—lest the republic succumbs to those reckless demagogues or would-be aristocrats.To sustain their republics, American leaders should reform the morals and manners of the nation’s citizens.More than a mere boon for individuals, education is a collective, social benefit essential for free government to endure.More than a mere boon for individuals, education should produce well-informed protectors of republican government.

+200Comprehension (Questions 03-07)Read the passage and answer the questions:The founders of the Republic viewed their revolution primarily in political rather than economic or social terms. And they talked about education as essential to the public good—a goal that took precedence over knowledge as occupational training or as a means to self-fulfillment or self-improvement. Over and over again the Revolutionary generation, both liberal and conservative in outlook, asserted its conviction that the welfare of the Republic rested upon an educated citizenry and that schools, especially free public schools, would be the best means of educating the citizenry in civic values and the obligations required of everyone in a democratic republican society. All agreed that the principal ingredients of a civic education were literacy and the inculcation of patriotic and moral virtues, some others adding the study of history and the study of principles of the republican government itself.The founders, as was the case of almost all their successors, were long on exhortation and rhetoric regarding the value of civic education, but they left it to the textbook writers to distill the essence of those values for school children. Texts in American history and government appeared as early as the 1790s. The textbook writers turned out to be very largely of conservative persuasion, more likely Federalist in outlook than Jeffersonian, and almost universally agreed that political virtue must rest upon moral and religious precepts. Since most textbook writers were New Englander, this meant that the texts were infused with Protestant and, above all, Puritan outlooks.In the first half of the Republic, civic education in the schools emphasized the inculcation of civic values and made little attempt to develop participatory political skills. That was a task left to incipient political parties, town meetings, churches and the coffee or ale houses where men gathered for conversation. Additionally as a reading of certain Federalist papers of the period would demonstrate, the press probably did more to disseminate realistic as well as partisan knowledge of government than the schools. The goal of education, however, was to achieve a higher form of unum of the U.S. and on several U.S. coins) for the new Republic. In the middle half of the nineteenth century, the political values taught in the public and private schools did not change substantially from those celebrated in the first fifty years of the Republic. In the textbooks of the day their rosy hues if anything became golden. To the resplendent values of liberty, equality, and a benevolent Christian morality were now added the middle-class virtues-especially of New England-of hard work, honesty and integrity, the rewards of individual effort, and obedience to parents and legitimate authority. But of all the political values taught in school, patriotism was preeminent; and whenever teachers explained to school children why they should love their country above all else, the idea of liberty assumed pride of place.QUESTION 04bookmark_borderSelect the correct answerAccording to the passage, the founders of the Republic regarded education primarily asradio_button_uncheckeda religious obligationradio_button_uncheckeda private matterradio_button_uncheckedan unnecessary luxuryradio_button_uncheckeda matter of individual choiceradio_button_uncheckeda political necessity

Directions for questions 7 and 8: The following question has a paragraph from which the last sentence has been deleted. From the given options, choose the one that completes the paragraph in the most appropriate way.One of the most crucial elements in China’s rapid economic growth from the 1980s onwards was not just Deng Xiaoping’s reforms but Mao Tse-tung’s campaign two decades earlier to achieve universal literacy. It is education that has underpinned China’s transformation from an agricultural to an urbanised society. Deng gets the credit for economic reforms in the 1980s and Mao the brickbats for his brutal methods in the Cultural Revolution in the 1960s. ______If literacy remains abysmal social and economic growth will remain a distant dream.Hence, China should realize the importance of universal literacy in transforming itself into a multi-trillion dollar economy in future.But it was Mao’s campaign for universal literacy that enabled Deng’s economic reforms to bear fruit.But, Mao made no attempt to establish a high-growth economy.

Directions for questions 4 and 5: Each of the following questions have a paragraph from which a sentence has been deleted. From the given options, choose the one that completes the para in the most appropriate way.Freedom and rights are so fundamental that they become dangerous words to use. _____ People defend controversial practices as tobacco manufacture and sale, hunting animals etc., on the grounds that we are free people who have the right to enjoy whatever pleasures we choose. Whatever the merits of these arguments, we should be careful of taking them at face value.Western democracy is arguably built upon the twin pillars of individual freedom and unassailable rights.If someone wants to legitimize what they are doing, even if it is harmful, they will almost certainly try to describe their actions in terms of freedom and rights.Every person is entitled to the right to personal freedom and privacy.The language of rights and freedom is used to disguise all kinds of injustices and wrongdoings.

Select the correct answer.Which of these statements is a valid reasoning in the passage for the claim that control of education should be in the hands of the tribal nations? A. Everyone should have the opportunity to earn scholarships so that they can graduate from college. B. Children should learn their own language and culture while also learning about the global economy. C. Time and money should be invested in job training in areas such as clean-energy and high-speed internet. D. Students need to be reminded that if they are 'going off' to get an education they must return to teach others.

Multiple Choice QuestionAfter the 1970s, tuition increased as the legislature Blank______.Multiple choice question.made tuition the same for all students regardless if they came from in-state or out-of-statebegan to tie the amount paid to the number of semester hours takendecided to remove all state funding for institutions of higher education