English Comprehension No.5 The strength of the electronics industry in Japan is the Japanese ability to organize production and marketing rather than achievements in original research. The British are generally recognized as a far more inventive collection of individuals, but never seem able to exploit what they invent. There are many examples, from TSRZ hovercraft, […]
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English Comprehension No.4 Culture is the cultivation of a plant or garden not the eradication of its roots, it is an understanding of the roots, it is an understanding of the roots and seeds, their patient care, and instructed nourishment. Culture is not knowledge, nor is it art still less is its acquaintance with literature
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English Comprehension No.3 It is difficult to reconcile the ideas of different schools of thought on the questions of education. Some people maintain that pupils at schools should concentrate on a narrow range of subjects which will benefit them directly in their subsequent careers. Others content that they should study a wide range of subjects
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English Comprehension No.2 The last half of my life has been lived in one of those painful epochs of human history during which the world is getting worse, and past victories which had seemed to be definitive have turned out to be only temporary. When I was young, Victorian optimism was taken for granted. It
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English Comprehension No.1 Primitive man was probably more concerned with fire as a source of warmth and as a means of cooking food than of making fire he had to preserve it, and whenever he went on the journey he carried a firebrand with him. His discovery that the firebrand, from which the torch may
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