31. What is the passage mainly about?
(A) How to persuade local communities to provide more funds.
(B) How to cope with the shortage of funds for public education.
(C) How to solve the rising unemployment problem.
(D) How to improve the public education system.

27. The majority of university professors prefer the traditional way of lecturing in the belief that _________________. (A) it draws the close attention of the students (B) it conforms in a way to the design of the Creator (C) it presents course content in a scientific and objective manner (D) it helps students to comprehend abstract theories more easily

28. What the author recommends in this passage is that _________. (A) college education should be improved through radical measures (B) more freedom of choice should be given to students in their studies (C) traditional college lectures should be replaced by dramatized performances (D) interaction should be encouraged in the process of teaching

29. By saying "They seemed 'a priesthood, rather uneven in their merits but uniform in their bearing...'" (Lines 3-4, Para. 4), the author means that _____. (A) professors are a group of professionals that differ in their academic ability but behave in the same way (B) professors are like priests wearing the same kind of black gown but having different roles to play (C) there is no fundamental difference between professors and priests though they differ in their merits (D) professors at the University of Pennsylvania used to wear black suits which made them look like priests

30. Whose teaching method is particularly commended by the author? (A) Ezekiel Cheever's. (C) Alfred North Whitehead's. (B) Cotton Mather's. (D) Patricia Nelson Limerick's.

32. What is the reason for the increase in the number of students? (A) The requirement of educated workers by business. (B) Raising of the legal age for going to work. (C) The trend toward a shorter workday. (D) People's concern for the future of the next generation.

33. The public agencies for adult education will be little better off because _____. (A) the unemployed are too poor to continue their education (B) a new leisure class has developed (C) they are still suffering from the depression (D) an increase in taxes could be a problem

34. According to the author, the answer to the problem of public education is that the Federal government _____. (A) should allocate Federal funds for public education (B) should demand that local communities provide support (C) should raise taxes to meet the needs of public education (D) should first of all solve the problem of unemployment

35. Why does the author say "Only a people determined to ruin the next generation will refuse such Federal funds as public education may require" (Lines 10-11, Para. 3)? (A) Only by appropriating adequate Federal funds for education can the next generation have a bright future. (B) Citizens of all parts of the country agree that the best way to support education is to use Federal funds. (C) people all over the country should make contributions to education in the interest of the next generation. (D) Educated people are determined to use part of the Federal funds to help the poor.

36. The new contact lens is meant for _____________. (A) astronomical observations (C) those with vision defects (B) the night blind (D) optical experiments

37. What do the two instruments mentioned in the second paragraph (Line 5) refer to? (A) The astronomical telescope and the wave-front sensor. (B) The aluminum mirror and the laser beam. (C) The active mirror and the contact lens. (D) The aluminum mirror and the wave-front sensor.