7. Forming the plural from a given noun: A GRACE FOR a child Here a little child I stand On our meat and on us all. Amen. Underline the correct answer to the following: HERRICK (i) The child is speaking to (Herrick/his father/his mother/all/ God) (ii) The child holds up (his left hand/his right hand/neither hand/both hands/two little toads) (iii)_| What is the meaning of “benison"? (sauce/a kind of meat/blessing/rain/curse) }. Problems: (1) A tap leaks at the rate of 1 pint per hour. How many gallons are lost in one day? gallons (2) A brick is 9 inches long. How long are 7 bricks laid end to end? Give the answer in feet and inches .ft. (3) What is the cost of 3 ounces of tobacco at 38.82d. an ounce? .8. .in. d. If 10 (4) There are 37 boys in one class at school, and 34 in another class. of these boys were absent one day, how many would there be left in the two classes. .boys (5) If the length of my stride is 36 inches, how many strides do I take in half a mile? .strides (6) A book has 150 pages, with 40 lines to a page and 10 words to a line. How many words are there in the book? words (7) A necklace of beads is 212 feet long. If each bead is 1⁄4 inch long, how many beads are there in the necklace? beads TEST OF INTELLIGENCE 1. (i) Which letter occurs least often in the word PERPETRATE? (ii) Vinegar is to Sour as Honey is to (sugar/comb/bee/sticky/ sweet/yellow) (iii) Which of the following words has no two letters the same? (instruct/revision/orchestra/precious/ascertain/surmount) (iv) House is to Roof as Room is to (window/floor/ceiling/fireplace/ chimney/wall) .) (v) If the letters in the word SPECIAL were rearranged so as to be in alphabetical order, which letter would then be in the middle? 2. Opposites: (. . . . . . . . ) (i) ALWAYS... . (now/often/never/sometimes/ever/soon) (ii) VANISH.. (disguise/visible/shine/see/appear/hide) 3. Classifying: (i) SERVANT, VALET, BUTLER (invalid/master/nobleman/ kitchen/waiter/service) (ii) HIVE, LÁIR, BURROW (bee/thicket/nest/hide/tunnel/jungle) 4. After reading: Five men, whom we shall call A, B, C, D and E, each inhabit one floor of a five-storied house. B lives two floors above A and one floor below D. E lives one floor below A. Answer: (i) Who lives on the bottom floor? (ii) Who lives on the top floor? (iii) Who lives one floor up? 5. Order-underline the first and last: (i) First/sixth/fourth/tenth/third (ii) Walk/stroll/run/trot/stand 6. Code the numbers correspond to alphabetical order: (i) (2, 9, 4) means... (ii) (19, 15, 21, 18) means. (big/bit/aid/bid/bin/die) (tour/soul/sour/rout/sown/smut) 35, 40-41, 72, 73, 75 129 34-35 114 Ability grouping.. European schools. Need for... Academic basic education, England and United States compared. Academic secondary schools, superiority in Europe.......... Acadamic standards: England...... Low in United States.. Academically talented.. Accreditation (United States), need for improvement. Adult education, England.. 36 148-149 116 78-79 Statistics... 78-79 Intellectual equality of.... Samples of composition tests of. American high schools, criticism of.... American public secondary schools, inferior to European... American schools: Dropouts.. Educational opportunity in. Teacher preparation. - American teachers: Quality of..... Incompetence of.. i 35, 40, 41, 72, 73, 75 116 157 38-41 36 321 96 130 97 36 94 Amidon Elementary School (District of Columbia), experiment in basic Pa "Can Our Teachers Read and Write?" by James D. Koerner. 85, 86, 92, 106 328-330 1, 14, 16, 30, 42, 46, 50, 52, 60, 69, 102 Carnegie Corp., study of reading habits.. Character development in U.S. schools, value of 136, 142, 153 Chemistry, sample exams ("advanced" level) for English General Certificate of Education.... 256-263 Chemistry, sample exams ("scholarship" level) for English General Certificate of Education.. 256-265 Chicago Laboratory School.. Children, "socioeconomically underprivileged," needs of. Church, education after the Reformation on the Continent.. Church, educational role in medieval Europe.. Churchill, Winston Classroom work and test papers (Manchester, England), samples of pupils. 266-319 College board achievement test (United States). College board exams (United States).... College board exams (United States), statistics. College of Preceptors (England). Composition tests, samples by American high school students of Compositions, samples of, by American teachers.. Complacency, dangers of Comprehensive school, a handicap in United States.. Comprehensive school, in United States, criticism of.. Congress, responsibility for raising scholastic level. Consensus nations, citizens role in Constitutional Convention of 1787. 223 Why Theirs Are Better". Cost of education... Counseling (United States). Council for Basic Education... "Continental University, The" (ch. IV) in "Swiss Schools and Ours: Coordination of Government programs in research and education.. Council for Basic Education, publication "Teaching the Third R". |