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- One example of a -------relationship is pro-
vided by the tickbird, which gets protection
and a free meal of ticks from the hippopota-
mus and in turn supplies free pest removal
services.
(A) competitive
(B) deteriorating
(C) symbiotic
(D) regressive
(E) vacillating - Early philosophers used ------- alone to reach their
conclusions; unlike modern scientists, they did
not value the -------information that comes only
from close observation and experimentation.
(A) reason.. empirical
(B) coercion.. mathematical
(C) deduction.. clerical
(D) computation.. intuitive
(E) compassion.. numerical - The ------- of many media companies under a
single owner is troublesome to those who be-
lieve that ------- is essential to the fair and bal-
anced presentation of the news.
(A) retraction.. differentiation
(B) consolidation.. independence
(C) collaboration.. sharing
(D) unification.. dissemination
(E) disintegration.. variety
Questions 9–12 are based on the following passages.PASSAGE 1
Education, then, beyond all other devices of
human origin, is the great equalizer of the con-
ditions of men—the balance-wheel of the social
machinery. It gives each man the independence
and the means by which he can resist the self-
ishness of other men. It does better than to dis-
arm the poor of their hostility toward the rich;
it prevents being poor. The spread of education,
by enlarging the cultivated class or caste, will
open a wider area over which the social feelings
will expand, and, if this education should be
universal and complete, it would do more than
all things else to obliterate factitious distinc-
tions in society.
PASSAGE 2
For most students, the main product of
schooling is not education but the acceptance
of one’s place in society and of the power of
that society to mete out the symbols of status.
Education is the acquisition of competence,
power, wisdom and discernment. These come
only from the unadulterated struggle for sense
in the world, and it is this struggle that is de-
nied by schooling, which dictates experience
and then evaluates that experience as it
chooses. But only the experiencer can really
evaluate an experience.- Unlike Passage 1, Passage 2 focuses on the dis-
tinction between
(A) educating the poor and educating the
wealthy
(B) power and knowledge
(C) teachers and students
(D) educated people and uneducated people
(E) schooling and education
The following passages are followed by ques-
tions based on their content. Answer the ques-
tions on the basis of what is statedor implied
in the passage and in any introductory mater-
ial that may be provided.First passage: Horace Mann, The Case for Public Schools,a
report to the Massachusetts Board of Education in 1848.
Second passage: Printed with the permission of its author,
Christopher Black, and College Hill Coaching. © 2005Line5