4) Which of the phrases given below should replace the phrase printed in bold type to make the grammatically correct sentence? There are not many men who are so famous that they are frequently referred to by their short names only:

6) 5 cars are ready at the start of a race.
* Car B is positioned to the right of Car A but is not positioned next to Car C.
* Car C is positioned next to Car D, which has Car B on its left side.
* Car E is positioned farthest from Car C.
Which car does not have a car to the left of it?

In the United States the per capita costs of schooling have risen almost as fast as the cost

of medical treatment. But increased treatment by both doctors and teachers has shown

steadily declining results. Medical expenses concentrated on those above forty-five have

doubled several times over a period of forty years with a resulting 3 percent increase in

the life expectancy of men. The increase in educational expenditures has produced even

stranger results; otherwise, President Nixon could not have been moved this spring to

promise that every child shall soon have the “Right to Read” before leaving school.

In the United States it would take eighty billion dollars per year to provide what educators

regard as equal treatment for all in grammar and high school. This is well over twice the

$36 billion now being spent. Independent cost projections prepared at HEW and at the

University of Florida indicate that by 1974 the comparable figures will be $107 billion as

against the $45 billion now projected, and these figures wholly omit the enormous costs

of what is called “higher education,” for which demand is growing even faster. The United

States, which spent nearly eighty billion dollars in 1969 for “defence,” including its

deployment in Vietnam, is obviously too poor to provide equal schooling. The President’s

committee for the study of school finance should ask not how to support or how to trim

such increasing costs, but how they can be avoided.

Equal obligatory schooling must be recognized as at least economically unfeasible. In Latin

America the amount of public money spent on each graduate student is between 350 and

1,500 times the amount spent on the median citizen (that is, the citizen who holds the

middle ground between the poorest and the richest). In the United States the discrepancy

is smaller, but the discrimination is keener. The richest parents, some 10 percent, can

afford private education for their children and help them to benefit from foundation

grants. But in addition, they obtain ten times the per capita amount of public funds if this

is compared with the per capita expenditure made on the children of the 10 percent who

are poorest. The principal reasons for this are that rich children stay longer in school, that

a year in a university is disproportionately more expensive than a year in high school, and

that most private universities depend—at least indirectly—on tax- derived finances.

Obligatory schooling inevitably polarizes a society; it also grades the nations of the world

according to an international caste system. Countries are rated like castes whose

educational dignity is determined by the average years of schooling of its citizens, a rating

which is closely related to per capita gross national product, and much more painful.

1) Which one of the following best expresses the main idea of the passage?

2) Consider each of the three choices and select all that apply. The author most likely would agree with which one of the following solutions to the problems presented by obligatory education?
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3) According to the passage, education is like health care in all of the following ways EXCEPT:
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4) Why does the author consider the results from increased educational expenditures to be “even stranger” than those from increased medical expenditures?
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6) The highlighted portions of the passage imply that _____

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