Reading passages

140-Hedge Schoolmasters ---- .
A) had to teach secretly, as what they were doing was illegal
B) provided the only legal education for Catholics at that time
C) worked for one of the departments of Trinity College
D) taught in order to raise money for school buildings
E) began their work in Ireland in the 16th century


141 -One difficulty that Hedge Schoolmasters and their pupil were faced with was that ---- .
A) the school masters weren’t properly trained
B) the students had to study Latin and Greek
C) they didn't have any school books
D) the masters and pupils spoke different languages
E) there were not enough teachers for all the students
An average child of 5 years old uses only 1,500 of the 150,000 "dictionary" words that a modern language contains. But this small treasury is used very intensively, by him during the years of learning, at the rate of about 1,000 words an hour, or from 7,000 to 15,000 words each day for an active child. School quickly increases his vocabulary, but leaves him with less opportunity for using it. At 10 years old, his treasury amounts to 7,000 words, of which about 30% are used actively -the remainder is seldom or never used and in an hour he will use about 700 words. By the time he enters university, his word inventory will have grown to 20.000, and on graduation to
60.000, but of these only 10% -20%will be in active use.


142 -According to the passage, in general, a 5 -year old -child ----- .
A) has an enormous, vocabulary for his age
B) can learn 1.000 words in an hour
C) knows, but doesn’t use, about 150~000 words
D) learns about 7.000 to 15.000 words each day
E) uses only one percent of avai1able words


143 -The passage tells us that when a child goes to school, ----- .
A) the amount of vocabulary he knows, and his usage of it, increase considerably
B) he is able to use more than half of the words found in a standard dictionary
C) he learns many words, but uses a smaller percentage of them than before
D) he finds more opportunity to use his ,vocabulary
E) he starts using about 7.000 words daily