81. the purpose of this passage is to ______.
a) show why most english students are"specialists"
b) show the superiority of the english educational system
c) describe the three tests that the english educational system is basedon
d) discuss the inequalities of the english educational system
82. the exam for the ordinary level of the general certificate of education
is administrated at the age of ______.
a) fifteen b) eighteen
c) eleven d) thirteen
83. we may conclude from the passage that______.
a) the exam that is taken at age eighteen is easier than the other two exams
b) failure on the eleven-plus exam excludes a student from further
schooling
c) higher education is much narrower in scope in england than in
american
d) physics and chemistry are the two most popular courses of study
84. the passage suggests that ______.
a) most people in england are college educated
b) schooling is very closely controlled in england
c) the failure rate on eleven-plus exam is quite high
d) england's structured educational system has reduced the illiteracy
rate in that country dramatically
85. as used in the passage, the word "content" (in line 12) means______.
a) difficulties b) framework
c) material d) pleasure
questions 86 to 90 are based on the following passage:
what makes it rain? rain falls from clouds for the same reason any-thing falls to earth. the earth's gravity pulls it. but every cloud ismade of water droplets or ice crystals. why doesn't rain or snow fallconstantly from all clouds? the droplets or ice crystals in clouds areexceedingly small. the effect of gravity on them is minute. air currentsmove and lift droplets so that the net downward displacement (¨°???￥) iszero, even though the droplets are in constant motion.
droplets and ice crystals behave somewhat like dust in the air madevisible in a shaft of sunlight. to the casual observer, dust seems to actin a totally random fashion, moving about chaotically without fixed direc-tion. but in fact dust particles are much larger than water droplets andthey finally fall. the cloud droplet of average size is only 1/2500 inchin diameter. it is so small that it would take sixteen hours to fall halfa mile in perfectly still air, and it does not fall out of moving air atall. only when the droplet grows to a diameter of 1/125 inch or largercan it fall from the cloud. the average raindrop contains a million timesas much water as a tiny cloud droplet. the growth of a cloud droplet toa size large enough to fall out is the cause of rain and other forms ofprecipitation. this important growth process is called"coalescence."
a) show why most english students are"specialists"
b) show the superiority of the english educational system
c) describe the three tests that the english educational system is basedon
d) discuss the inequalities of the english educational system
82. the exam for the ordinary level of the general certificate of education
is administrated at the age of ______.
a) fifteen b) eighteen
c) eleven d) thirteen
83. we may conclude from the passage that______.
a) the exam that is taken at age eighteen is easier than the other two exams
b) failure on the eleven-plus exam excludes a student from further
schooling
c) higher education is much narrower in scope in england than in
american
d) physics and chemistry are the two most popular courses of study
84. the passage suggests that ______.
a) most people in england are college educated
b) schooling is very closely controlled in england
c) the failure rate on eleven-plus exam is quite high
d) england's structured educational system has reduced the illiteracy
rate in that country dramatically
85. as used in the passage, the word "content" (in line 12) means______.
a) difficulties b) framework
c) material d) pleasure
questions 86 to 90 are based on the following passage:
what makes it rain? rain falls from clouds for the same reason any-thing falls to earth. the earth's gravity pulls it. but every cloud ismade of water droplets or ice crystals. why doesn't rain or snow fallconstantly from all clouds? the droplets or ice crystals in clouds areexceedingly small. the effect of gravity on them is minute. air currentsmove and lift droplets so that the net downward displacement (¨°???￥) iszero, even though the droplets are in constant motion.
droplets and ice crystals behave somewhat like dust in the air madevisible in a shaft of sunlight. to the casual observer, dust seems to actin a totally random fashion, moving about chaotically without fixed direc-tion. but in fact dust particles are much larger than water droplets andthey finally fall. the cloud droplet of average size is only 1/2500 inchin diameter. it is so small that it would take sixteen hours to fall halfa mile in perfectly still air, and it does not fall out of moving air atall. only when the droplet grows to a diameter of 1/125 inch or largercan it fall from the cloud. the average raindrop contains a million timesas much water as a tiny cloud droplet. the growth of a cloud droplet toa size large enough to fall out is the cause of rain and other forms ofprecipitation. this important growth process is called"coalescence."