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2. One advantage of using prefabricated parts is that __.
A. fewer skilled workmen are required
B. this method is much cheaper
than standard methods
C. less land is required.
D. buildings can be put up much faster
3. When a building is constructed from standard parts that have been well-tested ___.
A. there is no scope for originality
B. one is still not sure how they will behave
in a particular situation
C. new methods of construction are overlooked
D. one knows in advance that the result will be satisfactory
Since the major
cost of advanced education, if the
student is away from home, is board and lodging, one
can argue that as far as possible the expansion of public
education beyond high school should be arranged
locally. Otherwise, in order to offer
equal opportunities
we should have to envisage using public funds to provide years of free board and room for a
considerable fraction of our high school graduates. But there are various types of professional
and vocational education which can be given at only a few centres in even a
very populous
state. It is literally impossible, for example, to give adequate instruction in clinical medicine
except in cities of sufficient size to support large hospitals. Similarly, advanced work in the
arts, sciences, and letters can be done only where adequate libraries and laboratories are at
hand. It is clearly in the national interest to find all the latent talent available for the
lengthy training that research careers demand. Yet to establish research centres at every point in
the United States where general education beyond the high school is desired would be not
merely uneconomical, but impossible.
4. What is mainly discussed in the passage?
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