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26. What can be inferred from the rate given in the passage?
A) In England and the USA the excepted level is reached only by girls.
B) Boys are better prepared than girls for their future life.
C) From 7 to 14, boys' scores for tests get worse compared to girl's ones.
D) Most boys try to succeed at work but not at school.
27. Which of the following is NOT TRUE?
A) Boys do badly at school because they're less intelligent.
B) At the age of seven, 12% of the girls doesn`t reach excepted score.
C) The researchers don't think boys are the problem.
D) Girls show better testing results almost at all ages.


Trinity College or Dublin University in the Republic of Ireland dates from the sixteenth century. However, during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries many Irish students went abroad to Italy Spain and France to be educated as Catholics forming the majority of the population were forbidden to have schools. During that time in Ireland many teachers operated outside the law. Known as Hedge Schoolmasters they taught their pupils by the hedgerows in summer and in hillside huts in winter due to a lack of buildings of their own. They managed to teach Latin and Greek well. Without texts masters and pupils had to rely on memory. Not until the nineteenth century did these banned 'hedge' schools disappear when a system of public education was finally approved by the British Government.
28. According to the passage Ireland ...
A) was an independent state in the 18th century B) was a predominantly Catholic state
C) became a republic in the 16th century D) didn't have any schools until the 19th century
29. It said in the passage that Hedge Schoolmasters ...
A) worked for one of the department of Trinity College.
B) provided the only legal education for Catholics at that time.
C) taught murder to raise money for school buildings.
D) had to teach secretly as what they were doing was illegal.