PT117.S3.Q1

PrepTest 117 - Section 3 - Question 1

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Editorial: Support The structure of the present school calendar was established to satisfy the requirements of early-twentieth-century agricultural life. ██ █████ █████ ███████ ██████ █████ ████████ ██ ████ ████ ██████ ██████ █████ ████ █████ ██████ ██ ████ ███ ████ ████ ███ ████████ ███ ████████████ ██████ ████ ██ ████ ████ ██ ██ ███████ ██ █████ ████████████ ████ ████ ███████ ███ ████████████ ████ ██ ██████ ████████ ████ ██ ███ █████████ ██ ██ ███ ███ ████ ███████ ████ █████ ███ █████████ ██ █████████ ██████████ ████ ██████ ██████ ██ ███████ ████ ███ ██████ █████████

Summary

The author concludes that long breaks should be removed from the school calendar.

Why?

Because long breaks as part of the school calendar originally developed because of the needs of early 20th century agricultural life. But agricultural life doesn’t occupy most people’s lives anymore. Now we can make changes to the school calendar that serve the interests of children.

Notable Assumptions

The author assumes that if agricultural life doesn’t occupy most people’s lives anymore, there is no longer any compelling reason to keep long breaks as part of the school calendar. (This overlooks that there may be good reasons to keep the long breaks, even if the original reason they came about is no longer applicable.)

The author assumes that long breaks as part of the school calendar do not serve students’ interests.

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1.

Which one of the following ██ ██ ██████████ ██ █████ ███ ███████████ ████████ ████████

a

During long breaks ████████ ████ █ ████████ ██ ██████ ████ ████ ████ ████████

b

Children of farmers ████ ██ ████████ █████████ █ ██████ ████████ ████ ██ ██ ███████ ██ █████ ████████████ ████ ████ ███████

c

Long breaks in ███ ██████ ████████ ██████ ██ ████████ ████ ██████ ████ ███ ██ ██████ ████ ████████ ███████ ██████████

d

A change in ███ ███████ ██████ ████████ ████ █████████ ██████ █████ █████ ███ █████████ ██ ████████████ █████

e

A school calendar ████ ██ ██ ███████ ██ █████ ███████ ████ ██████ █████ █████ ███ █████████ ██ ████████ ████ ████ █ ██████ ████████ ████ ████ ███████

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