Indicate the correct word or phrase that best fits each of the numbered blanks from 31 to 35.

        

Education is more important today than ever before. It helps people acquire the skills they need for such everyday (31) ________ as reading a newspaper or managing their money. It also gives them the specialized training they may need to prepare for a job or career. For example, a person must meet certain educational requirements and obtain a (32) ________ or certificate before he can practice law or medicine. Many fields, like computer operation or police work, require satisfactory completion of special training courses.

    Education is also important (33) ________ it helps people get more out of life. It increases their knowledge and understanding of the world. It helps them acquire the skills that make life more interesting and enjoyable, such as the skills (34) ________ to participate in a sport, paint a picture, or play a musical instrument. Such education becomes increasingly important as people gain more and more leisure time.

    Education also helps people adjust to change. This habit has become necessary because social changes today take place with increasing speed and affect the lives of more and more people. Education can help a person understand these changes and provide him (35) ________ the skills for adjusting to them.

 

Question 31: A. actions         B. jobs          C. works       D. activities

Question 32: A. license          B. paper        C. diploma    D. card

Question 33: A. therefore       B. despite     C. although   D. because

Question 34: A. able               B. capable    C. needed      D. ordered

Question 35: A. with               B. for           C. on             D. in

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Indicate the correct word or phrase that best fits each of the numbered blanks from 31 to 35.

    At the beginning of the nineteenth century, the American educational system was desperately in need of reform. Private schools existed, but only for the very rich. There were very few public schools because of the strong sentiment that children who would grow up to be laborers should not "waste" their time on education but should instead prepare themselves for their life's work. It was in the face of this public sentiment that educational reformers set about their task. Horace Mann, probably the most famous of the reformers, felt that there was no excuse in a republic for any citizen to be uneducated. Education is important (31) ________ it helps people get more out of life. It increases their knowledge and understanding of the world. It helps them acquire the skills that make life more interesting and enjoyable, (32) ________ the skills needed to participate in a sport, paint a picture, or play a musical instrument. Such education becomes (33) _________ important as people gain more and leisure time.

    Education also helps people adjust to change. This habit has become necessary because social changes today take place with increasing speed and (34) ________ the lives of more and more people. Education can help a person understand these changes and provide him (35) ________ the skills for adjusting to them. 

 

Question 31: A. therefore      B. despite        C. although   D. because

Question 32: A. such as         B. for instance C. such that   D. for example

Question 33: A. increased      B. increasing  C. increase    D. increasingly

Question 34: A. effect            B. affect         C. affective    D. effective

Question 35: A. with              B. for             C. in               D. to

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Indicate the correct word or phrase that best fits each of the numbered blanks from 31 to 35.

EARLY WRITING AND ALPHABETS

    When people first began to write, they did not use an alphabet. Instead, they drew small pictures to (31) ________ the objects they were writing about. This was very slow because there was a different picture for every word.

    The Ancient Egyptians had a system of picture writing that was called hieroglyphics. The meaning of this writing was forgotten for a very long time but in 1799 some scientists (32) ________ a stone near Alexandria, in Egypt. The stone had been there for (33) ________ a thousand years. It had both Greek and hieroglyphics on it and researchers were finally able to understand what the hieroglyphics meant.

     An alphabet is quite different from picture writing. It (34) ________ of letters or symbols that represent a sound and each sound is just part of one word. The Phoenicians, who lived about 3,000 years ago, developed the modern alphabets. It was later improved by the Roman’s and this alphabet is now used (35) ________ throughout the world. 

 

Question 31: A. notice          B. convey       C. appear       D. mark

Question 32: A. discovered                                B. realized    

                 C. delivered                                  D. invented

Question 33: A. quite               B. more          C. over            D. already

Question 34: A. consists        B. includes     C. contains    D. involves

Question 35: A. broadly        B. widely        C. deeply      D. hugely