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Multiple choice

Which is the best way to deal with sentence 8?

Direction:
The following passage is an early draft of an essay. Some parts of the passage need to be rewritten.
Read the passage and select the best answers for the questions that follow. Some questions are about particular sentences or parts of sentences and ask you to improve sentence structure or word choice. Other questions ask to consider organization and development. In choosing answers, follow the requirements of standard written English.

(1) The great advantage of early rising is the head start it gives us in our day’s work. (2) The early riser has done a large amount of hard work before other men even get out of bed.  (3) In the early morning, the mind is fresh, and there are few sounds or other distractions, so work done at that time is generally well done. (4) In many cases the early riser also finds time to take some exercise in the fresh morning air, and this exercise supplies him with a fund of energy that will last until the evening. (5) By beginning so early, he knows that he has plenty of time to thoroughly do all the work he can be expected to do and is not tempted to hurry over any part of it. (6) All his work being finished in good time, he has a long interval of rest in the evening before the timely hour when he goes to bed. (7) After a sound night’s rest he rises early next morning in good health and spirits for the labors of a new day. (8) He gets to sleep several hours before midnight at the time when sleep is most refreshing.

(9) It is very plain that such a life as his is far more conducive to health than that of the man who shortens his waking hours by rising late. (10) Who lies in bed late, if he wishes to do a full day’s work, goes on working to a corresponding late hour and denies himself the hour or two of evening exercise that he ought to take for the benefit of his health.

  1. Leave it as it is.

  2. Place it before sentence 9.

  3. Delete it.

  4. Place it before sentence 7.

  5. Connect it to sentence 7 with 'and.
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

Logically sentence 8 should come before sentence 7 - 'He gets to sleep' should come before 'After a sound night's rest'.

Multiple choice

What support does paragraph 2 provide to the thought in paragraph 1?

Directions for questions:
The following passage is an early draft of an essay. Some parts of the passage need to be rewritten.
Read the passage and select the best answers for the questions that follow. Some questions are about particular sentences or parts of sentences and ask you to improve sentence structure or word choice. Other questions ask to consider organization and development. In choosing answers, follow the requirements of standard written English.

(1) The proper conduct of universities is a matter of first rate importance to the state, because it is in them that leaders of the country are trained. (2) The university education is calculated to produce and is producing, men who will be able to play worthy part in public life. (3) It is true that legislative and administrative capacities are developed largely by experience and by practical knowledge of affairs, foundations need to be laid at a much earlier stage. (4) It is from this university teaching that a young man should learn to examine critically the material before him, to arrive at a balanced judgment; and not to be carried away by mere catchwords.
(5) But in public affairs something more than the power of criticism and intellectual judgment is needed. (6) It is mainly outside the classroom that the boy learns the lesson of corporate life, how to understand the views of others and to work with them, how to sacrifice cheerfully his private inclination for the common good. (7) How to lead others by influence rather than by authority? (8) He learns these lessons daily contact which he follows in clubs and societies, in playing fields and common rooms and also not the least by the guidance of wise teachers from whom a timely word may mean so much.

  1. It gives further strength to the argument.

  2. It provides additional information in support

  3. It is repetitive

  4. It provides information to weaken the thought

  5. It provides a larger frame of reference

Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
E Correct answer
Explanation

Para 2 does not really weaken the thought contained in paragraph 1. It only says that something more is needed and states where it can be obtained.

Multiple choice

In the context of the paragraph, which revision is most needed in sentence (3)?

Directions for questions:
The following passage is an early draft of an essay. Some parts of the passage need to be rewritten.
Read the passage and select the best answers for the questions that follow. Some questions are about particular sentences or parts of sentences and ask you to improve sentence structure or word choice. Other questions ask to consider organization and development. In choosing answers, follow the requirements of standard written English.

(1) The proper conduct of universities is a matter of first rate importance to the state, because it is in them that leaders of the country are trained. (2) The university education is calculated to produce and is producing, men who will be able to play worthy part in public life. (3) It is true that legislative and administrative capacities are developed largely by experience and by practical knowledge of affairs, foundations need to be laid at a much earlier stage. (4) It is from this university teaching that a young man should learn to examine critically the material before him, to arrive at a balanced judgment; and not to be carried away by mere catchwords.
(5) But in public affairs something more than the power of criticism and intellectual judgment is needed. (6) It is mainly outside the classroom that the boy learns the lesson of corporate life, how to understand the views of others and to work with them, how to sacrifice cheerfully his private inclination for the common good. (7) How to lead others by influence rather than by authority? (8) He learns these lessons daily contact which he follows in clubs and societies, in playing fields and common rooms and also not the least by the guidance of wise teachers from whom a timely word may mean so much.

  1. Omit 'it is true'.

  2. Change comma to semicolon.

  3. Replace' need to be' with' is needed'.

  4. Put 'but' after comma.

  5. Omit the word 'largely'.
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

Opposing thought is provided after comma. So, 'but' should be put after comma in the sentence.

Multiple choice

Which of the following is the best revision of the underlined portion of sentence (2) below? The university education is calculated to produce and is producing, men who will be able to play worthy part in public life.

Directions for questions:
The following passage is an early draft of an essay. Some parts of the passage need to be rewritten.
Read the passage and select the best answers for the questions that follow. Some questions are about particular sentences or parts of sentences and ask you to improve sentence structure or word choice. Other questions ask to consider organization and development. In choosing answers, follow the requirements of standard written English.

(1) The proper conduct of universities is a matter of first rate importance to the state, because it is in them that leaders of the country are trained. (2) The university education is calculated to produce and is producing, men who will be able to play worthy part in public life. (3) It is true that legislative and administrative capacities are developed largely by experience and by practical knowledge of affairs, foundations need to be laid at a much earlier stage. (4) It is from this university teaching that a young man should learn to examine critically the material before him, to arrive at a balanced judgment; and not to be carried away by mere catchwords.
(5) But in public affairs something more than the power of criticism and intellectual judgment is needed. (6) It is mainly outside the classroom that the boy learns the lesson of corporate life, how to understand the views of others and to work with them, how to sacrifice cheerfully his private inclination for the common good. (7) How to lead others by influence rather than by authority? (8) He learns these lessons daily contact which he follows in clubs and societies, in playing fields and common rooms and also not the least by the guidance of wise teachers from whom a timely word may mean so much.

  1. is calculated to produce, and is producing

  2. was calculated to produce and is producing

  3. has been calculated to produce and is producing

  4. was originally calculated to produce and is producing

  5. is calculated to produce
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

The punctuation mark (,) is needed to maintain flow of the sentence.

Multiple choice

Which of the following is the best revision of the underlined part of sentence 7 (reproduced below)? He learns these lessons daily contact which he follows

Directions for questions:
The following passage is an early draft of an essay. Some parts of the passage need to be rewritten.
Read the passage and select the best answers for the questions that follow. Some questions are about particular sentences or parts of sentences and ask you to improve sentence structure or word choice. Other questions ask to consider organization and development. In choosing answers, follow the requirements of standard written English.

(1) The proper conduct of universities is a matter of first rate importance to the state, because it is in them that leaders of the country are trained. (2) The university education is calculated to produce and is producing, men who will be able to play worthy part in public life. (3) It is true that legislative and administrative capacities are developed largely by experience and by practical knowledge of affairs, foundations need to be laid at a much earlier stage. (4) It is from this university teaching that a young man should learn to examine critically the material before him, to arrive at a balanced judgment; and not to be carried away by mere catchwords.
(5) But in public affairs something more than the power of criticism and intellectual judgment is needed. (6) It is mainly outside the classroom that the boy learns the lesson of corporate life, how to understand the views of others and to work with them, how to sacrifice cheerfully his private inclination for the common good. (7) How to lead others by influence rather than by authority? (8) He learns these lessons daily contact which he follows in clubs and societies, in playing fields and common rooms and also not the least by the guidance of wise teachers from whom a timely word may mean so much.

  1. He learns these lessons daily through contacts which he follows

  2. He learns these lessons daily in contact which he follows

  3. He learns these lessons in daily contacts which he follows

  4. He learns these lessons daily by contacts

  5. He learns these lessons daily more by contact which he follows
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

This part of the sentence has to maintain parallelism with the latter part: 'and also not the least by'. Besides, 'which he follows' is redundant.

Multiple choice

What is the best way to deal with sentence (1)?

Directions for questions:
The following passage is an early draft of an essay. Some parts of the passage need to be rewritten.
Read the passage and select the best answers for the questions that follow. Some questions are about particular sentences or parts of sentences and ask you to improve sentence structure or word choice. Other questions ask to consider organization and development. In choosing answers, follow the requirements of standard written English.

(1) The proper conduct of universities is a matter of first rate importance to the state, because it is in them that leaders of the country are trained. (2) The university education is calculated to produce and is producing, men who will be able to play worthy part in public life. (3) It is true that legislative and administrative capacities are developed largely by experience and by practical knowledge of affairs, foundations need to be laid at a much earlier stage. (4) It is from this university teaching that a young man should learn to examine critically the material before him, to arrive at a balanced judgment; and not to be carried away by mere catchwords.
(5) But in public affairs something more than the power of criticism and intellectual judgment is needed. (6) It is mainly outside the classroom that the boy learns the lesson of corporate life, how to understand the views of others and to work with them, how to sacrifice cheerfully his private inclination for the common good. (7) How to lead others by influence rather than by authority? (8) He learns these lessons daily contact which he follows in clubs and societies, in playing fields and common rooms and also not the least by the guidance of wise teachers from whom a timely word may mean so much.

  1. Leave it as it is.

  2. Omit the article at the beginning.

  3. Change 'first rate' to 'prime'

  4. Change 'state' to 'country'.

  5. Change 'in them' to 'there'.
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
E Correct answer
Explanation

The correct phrasal usage is 'here' or 'there' rather than 'in them'.

Multiple choice

In context, which is the best way to revise and combine the underlined portions of sentences 6 and 7 (reproduced below)? It is mainly outside the classroom that the boy learns the lesson of corporate life, how to understand the views of others and to work with them, how to sacrifice cheerfully his private inclination for the common good. How should they be led to lead others by influence rather than by authority?

Directions for questions:
The following passage is an early draft of an essay. Some parts of the passage need to be rewritten.
Read the passage and select the best answers for the questions that follow. Some questions are about particular sentences or parts of sentences and ask you to improve sentence structure or word choice. Other questions ask to consider organization and development. In choosing answers, follow the requirements of standard written English.

(1) The proper conduct of universities is a matter of first rate importance to the state, because it is in them that leaders of the country are trained. (2) The university education is calculated to produce and is producing, men who will be able to play worthy part in public life. (3) It is true that legislative and administrative capacities are developed largely by experience and by practical knowledge of affairs, foundations need to be laid at a much earlier stage. (4) It is from this university teaching that a young man should learn to examine critically the material before him, to arrive at a balanced judgment; and not to be carried away by mere catchwords.
(5) But in public affairs something more than the power of criticism and intellectual judgment is needed. (6) It is mainly outside the classroom that the boy learns the lesson of corporate life, how to understand the views of others and to work with them, how to sacrifice cheerfully his private inclination for the common good. (7) How to lead others by influence rather than by authority? (8) He learns these lessons daily contact which he follows in clubs and societies, in playing fields and common rooms and also not the least by the guidance of wise teachers from whom a timely word may mean so much.

  1. the common good, how should they be led by influence rather than by authority?

  2. the common good, and how to lead others by influence rather than by authority.

  3. the common good; how to lead others by influence rather than by authority.

  4. the common good, how should they be led by influence rather than by authority.

  5. the common good, how to lead others by influence rather than by authority?
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

Sentence 7 is logically a continuation of sentence 6. When the two sentences are combined, the sign of interrogation at the end of 7 will be removed. Both these errors are corrected only in B.

Multiple choice

Where is the best place for sentence 9?

Direction:
The following passage is an early draft of an essay. Some parts of the passage need to be rewritten.
Read the passage and select the best answers for the questions that follow. Some questions are about particular sentences or parts of sentences and ask you to improve sentence structure or word choice. Other questions ask to consider organization and development. In choosing answers, follow the requirements of standard written English.

(1) Books of travel are of all kinds, from the dry records of laborious statisticians to the trivial diaries of globe-trotters.             (2) Explorers, seamen, archaeologists, naturalists, dreamers, what type of man or woman has not written a book of travel? (3) People read their books and they appreciate a few of them and then they forget, ninety nine out of hundred. (4) Yet there are others. (5) The great books of travel are rare as great books in any other class are rare. (6) Similarly, the people of genius, personality and character are rare. (7) To write a book of travel appeals irresistibly to large numbers of persons who have no creative power, whose books are the mere reflection of a shallow curiosity and of a foolish egotism. (8) These deplorable works, though they spread a sort of suburban light upon the beautiful and wild places of earth, throw only into greater relief the achievement of the true travelers who by reason of their fortitude, their imagination, their insight and their ability to evoke the atmosphere and color of the world, have produced books that rank as literature and last for centuries. (9) Alas! There aren’t many.

  1. After sentence 2

  2. After sentence 3

  3. After sentence 4

  4. After sentence 5

  5. (Where it is now)
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

Sentence number 4 states that there are some eminently readable books of travel. Sentence 5 talks about rare books. The intervening sentence should provide a contrast.

Multiple choice

The opening sentence in paragraph one can best be improved by

Direction:
The following passage is an early draft of an essay. Some parts of the passage need to be rewritten.
Read the passage and select the best answers for the questions that follow. Some questions are about particular sentences or parts of sentences and ask you to improve sentence structure or word choice. Other questions ask to consider organization and development. In choosing answers, follow the requirements of standard written English.

(1) The last and not the least important way in which science has changed people and made them more civilized is by making them more tolerant. (2) A tolerant person is one who does not interfere with other people, even if he thinks they are wrong, but he is prepared to let them think what they like and say what they think. (3) If he thinks they are wrong he may try to persuade them to believe differently, but he will not try to force them.

(4) This may not seem a very important point, a great deal of the misery of mankind in the past has sprung from people being unwilling to tolerate other people thinking differently from themselves. (5) This intolerance has been particularly common in religious matters. (6) All over the western world, for instance, people have been killed and have tortured other people for not believing the same things as they did or for worshipping god in a different way.

(7) Most religious beliefs are based on faith, and the point about them is that although you may be quite convinced of them yourself, you cannot be sure of persuading other people to believe them too because. (8) Now, it is with regard to beliefs of this kind that people are now more tolerant than they used to be. (9) Formerly if a man thought differently about religious matters from his neighbors, he was very likely to be burnt alive. (10) And if he did not believe in God and had no religion at all he was thought exceedingly wicked and was punished. (11) This is no longer so.

  1. giving example of an important way

  2. omitting the definitive article before 'last' and 'least'

  3. offering definition of 'civilized' also

  4. changing the conjunction in the first sentence to represent the contrast intended
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

The appropriate phrase is 'the last but not the least'. So (D) is the answer.

Multiple choice

What is the best way to deal with sentence 4?

Direction:
The following passage is an early draft of an essay. Some parts of the passage need to be rewritten.
Read the passage and select the best answers for the questions that follow. Some questions are about particular sentences or parts of sentences and ask you to improve sentence structure or word choice. Other questions ask to consider organization and development. In choosing answers, follow the requirements of standard written English.

(1) The last and not the least important way in which science has changed people and made them more civilized is by making them more tolerant. (2) A tolerant person is one who does not interfere with other people, even if he thinks they are wrong, but he is prepared to let them think what they like and say what they think. (3) If he thinks they are wrong he may try to persuade them to believe differently, but he will not try to force them.

(4) This may not seem a very important point, a great deal of the misery of mankind in the past has sprung from people being unwilling to tolerate other people thinking differently from themselves. (5) This intolerance has been particularly common in religious matters. (6) All over the western world, for instance, people have been killed and have tortured other people for not believing the same things as they did or for worshipping god in a different way.

(7) Most religious beliefs are based on faith, and the point about them is that although you may be quite convinced of them yourself, you cannot be sure of persuading other people to believe them too because. (8) Now, it is with regard to beliefs of this kind that people are now more tolerant than they used to be. (9) Formerly if a man thought differently about religious matters from his neighbors, he was very likely to be burnt alive. (10) And if he did not believe in God and had no religion at all he was thought exceedingly wicked and was punished. (11) This is no longer so.

  1. Leave it as it is.

  2. Insert 'but' before 'a great deal'.

  3. Change the comma to the semicolon.

  4. Change 'This' to 'It'.
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

The part after comma must start with a contrasting word like 'but'.

Multiple choice

Which of the following is the best revision of sentence no. 3 below (reproduced below)? People read their books and they appreciate a few of them and then they forget, ninety nine out of hundred.

Direction:
The following passage is an early draft of an essay. Some parts of the passage need to be rewritten.
Read the passage and select the best answers for the questions that follow. Some questions are about particular sentences or parts of sentences and ask you to improve sentence structure or word choice. Other questions ask to consider organization and development. In choosing answers, follow the requirements of standard written English.

(1) Books of travel are of all kinds, from the dry records of laborious statisticians to the trivial diaries of globe-trotters.             (2) Explorers, seamen, archaeologists, naturalists, dreamers, what type of man or woman has not written a book of travel? (3) People read their books and they appreciate a few of them and then they forget, ninety nine out of hundred. (4) Yet there are others. (5) The great books of travel are rare as great books in any other class are rare. (6) Similarly, the people of genius, personality and character are rare. (7) To write a book of travel appeals irresistibly to large numbers of persons who have no creative power, whose books are the mere reflection of a shallow curiosity and of a foolish egotism. (8) These deplorable works, though they spread a sort of suburban light upon the beautiful and wild places of earth, throw only into greater relief the achievement of the true travelers who by reason of their fortitude, their imagination, their insight and their ability to evoke the atmosphere and color of the world, have produced books that rank as literature and last for centuries. (9) Alas! There aren’t many.

  1. They pour from the press, people read them and forget very soon.

  2. Books on travel are written profusely by the people and ninety nine books out of one hundred are of no worth.

  3. Ninety nine books are liked out of hundred books by the people.

  4. They pour forth in the press in an unending stream; they are read, they are forgotten and ninety nine out of every hundred pass away into oblivion.

  5. They pour from the press day in and day out, only to entertain the public.
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

No option except (D) takes into account the flow of the sentence.

Multiple choice

Which of the following is the best revision of the underlined portion of sentence (8) reproduced below? 'throw only into greater relief the achievement of the true travelers'

Direction:
The following passage is an early draft of an essay. Some parts of the passage need to be rewritten.
Read the passage and select the best answers for the questions that follow. Some questions are about particular sentences or parts of sentences and ask you to improve sentence structure or word choice. Other questions ask to consider organization and development. In choosing answers, follow the requirements of standard written English.

(1) Books of travel are of all kinds, from the dry records of laborious statisticians to the trivial diaries of globe-trotters.             (2) Explorers, seamen, archaeologists, naturalists, dreamers, what type of man or woman has not written a book of travel? (3) People read their books and they appreciate a few of them and then they forget, ninety nine out of hundred. (4) Yet there are others. (5) The great books of travel are rare as great books in any other class are rare. (6) Similarly, the people of genius, personality and character are rare. (7) To write a book of travel appeals irresistibly to large numbers of persons who have no creative power, whose books are the mere reflection of a shallow curiosity and of a foolish egotism. (8) These deplorable works, though they spread a sort of suburban light upon the beautiful and wild places of earth, throw only into greater relief the achievement of the true travelers who by reason of their fortitude, their imagination, their insight and their ability to evoke the atmosphere and color of the world, have produced books that rank as literature and last for centuries. (9) Alas! There aren’t many.

  1. provide greater relief to the achievement of the true travelers

  2. throw hot water onto the achievement of the true travelers

  3. provide good comparison to the achievement of the true travelers

  4. pale into trivialities on comparison with the achievement of the true travelers
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

The achievement of these 'deplorable' works is trivial.

Multiple choice

Paragraph two could best be improved by the addition of

Direction:
The following passage is an early draft of an essay. Some parts of the passage need to be rewritten.
Read the passage and select the best answers for the questions that follow. Some questions are about particular sentences or parts of sentences and ask you to improve sentence structure or word choice. Other questions ask to consider organization and development. In choosing answers, follow the requirements of standard written English.

(1) The last and not the least important way in which science has changed people and made them more civilized is by making them more tolerant. (2) A tolerant person is one who does not interfere with other people, even if he thinks they are wrong, but he is prepared to let them think what they like and say what they think. (3) If he thinks they are wrong he may try to persuade them to believe differently, but he will not try to force them.

(4) This may not seem a very important point, a great deal of the misery of mankind in the past has sprung from people being unwilling to tolerate other people thinking differently from themselves. (5) This intolerance has been particularly common in religious matters. (6) All over the western world, for instance, people have been killed and have tortured other people for not believing the same things as they did or for worshipping god in a different way.

(7) Most religious beliefs are based on faith, and the point about them is that although you may be quite convinced of them yourself, you cannot be sure of persuading other people to believe them too because. (8) Now, it is with regard to beliefs of this kind that people are now more tolerant than they used to be. (9) Formerly if a man thought differently about religious matters from his neighbors, he was very likely to be burnt alive. (10) And if he did not believe in God and had no religion at all he was thought exceedingly wicked and was punished. (11) This is no longer so.

  1. quotations from historical texts

  2. an explanation for intolerance

  3. a note regarding tolerance in the eastern world

  4. an example of religious wars

  5. a point emphasizing the importance of tolerance
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

The religious intolerance may not only have caused death or torture of individuals. It may also have been the cause of wars.

Multiple choice

Which of the following, if placed after sentence 11 would be the most effective concluding sentence of the paragraph?

Direction:
The following passage is an early draft of an essay. Some parts of the passage need to be rewritten.
Read the passage and select the best answers for the questions that follow. Some questions are about particular sentences or parts of sentences and ask you to improve sentence structure or word choice. Other questions ask to consider organization and development. In choosing answers, follow the requirements of standard written English

(1) Belief in equality has still deeper and more far reaching effects on education than those that we have known. (2) Because some people have gifts that are denied to others, the inclination for the thorough going equalitarian will be reasoned to say that they are not important. (3) In the school we shall tend to equate the value of subjects to say that it is just as important to be able to make straw mats or mend a fuse as to write Greek-verse or do higher mathematics. (4) That democracy to answer for the dangers of what may be called cultural equalitarianism are very real. (5) In so far it equates in value the experiences enjoyed by different kinds of people such a philosophy deprives education and hence society itself of its standards of value. (6) In an equalitarian society, a man’s judgment is theoretically as good as another’s. (7) But do we think that the papers with the largest circulation are as good as some of those smaller ones or that the programs with the largest listening figures are really the best programs? (8) We may enjoy those most, but can we honestly say that they are the best? (9) Above all, when we said that the function of education was to develop the best in each person, what did we mean? (10) The truth is we must introduce the idea of equality into our judgment of experience. (11) The equalitarian, in so far as he maintains that one man’s taste is as good as another’s, is wrong.

  1. Education should therefore be cognitive, not equal.

  2. No two men are created equal.

  3. Equalitarianism is therefore redundant.

  4. Because some people have taste, others distaste for possibly the same thing.

  5. Might is not right everywhere.
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

The main focus of the paragraph is education. Only (E) is anywhere connected with the theme.

Multiple choice

Which of the following sentences could be deleted without damaging the flow of the paragraph?

Direction:
The following passage is an early draft of an essay. Some parts of the passage need to be rewritten.
Read the passage and select the best answers for the questions that follow. Some questions are about particular sentences or parts of sentences and ask you to improve sentence structure or word choice. Other questions ask to consider organization and development. In choosing answers, follow the requirements of standard written English

(1) Belief in equality has still deeper and more far reaching effects on education than those that we have known. (2) Because some people have gifts that are denied to others, the inclination for the thorough going equalitarian will be reasoned to say that they are not important. (3) In the school we shall tend to equate the value of subjects to say that it is just as important to be able to make straw mats or mend a fuse as to write Greek-verse or do higher mathematics. (4) That democracy to answer for the dangers of what may be called cultural equalitarianism are very real. (5) In so far it equates in value the experiences enjoyed by different kinds of people such a philosophy deprives education and hence society itself of its standards of value. (6) In an equalitarian society, a man’s judgment is theoretically as good as another’s. (7) But do we think that the papers with the largest circulation are as good as some of those smaller ones or that the programs with the largest listening figures are really the best programs? (8) We may enjoy those most, but can we honestly say that they are the best? (9) Above all, when we said that the function of education was to develop the best in each person, what did we mean? (10) The truth is we must introduce the idea of equality into our judgment of experience. (11) The equalitarian, in so far as he maintains that one man’s taste is as good as another’s, is wrong.

  1. Sentence 2

  2. Sentence 4

  3. Sentence 6

  4. Sentence 8

  5. Sentence 10
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
E Correct answer
Explanation

Deleting sentence 10 doesn't make much difference to the gist or meaning of the paragraph.