Reading passages

16- The reason Rudyard Kipling experienced a nervous breakdown was that ............. . 
A) he lived in miserable conditions 
B) Mrs Halloway made him work hard regardless of his age. 
C) Mrs Halloway behaved cruelly for more than a few years 
D) he was deprived form learning a language 
E) he was forced to move to England reluctantly 
17- As a result of working for seven years as a journalist in India, J.R.Kipling ............. . 
A) made plenty of money that would be sufficient during his lifetime 
B) returned England to set up his own newspaper using his experience 
C) wrote lots of stories reflecting his hard years in India 
D) became the editor of The Pioneer in Allahbad 
E) collected a great deal of experience to make his works long-lived ones 
18- According to the passage, Rudyard Kipling............. . 
A) spent his childhood in India where he was born in the second half of 18th century 
B) was assimilated by his Hindustani speaking babysitters to get him to accept their culture 
C) was a member of a poor family with whom he spent only his childhood 
D) worked for a company teaching nurses and medical people how to speak his language 
E) was under the duress of Hindustani speaking nurses for a dozen of years 

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Eliminating poverty is largely a matter of helping children born into poverty to rise out of it. Once 
families escape from poverty, they do not fall back into it. Middle-class children rarely end up poor. 
The primary reason poor children do not escape from poverty is that they do not acquire basic mental 
skills . They cannot read, write, calculate or articulate. Lacking these skills, they cannot get or keep a 
well-paid job. The best mechanism for breaking these vicious circle is to provide the poor with better 
educational opportunities. Since children born into poor homes do not acquire the skills they need 
from their parents, they must be taught these skills in school.