Directions (21-30) : In the given passage there are words/group of words highlighted in bold. You have to decide if the word/group of words given is correct (in terms of grammar and context). If not, find out the appropriate word/group of words from the given options. In case, the suggested word/group of words is correct, mark the option ”The given word(s) s/are correct' as your answer.
Everyone knows that ...(21)... sustenance brainboxes is good for an economy. In Thailand, school reformers have an extra incentive to narrow ..(22)... contrasting between rich people in Cities and their poorer rural cousins, which have ...(23)... fulfilled to a decade of political tension and occasional eruptions of violence. For years shoddy teaching has favoured urban children whose parents can afford to send them to cramming schools or to study abroad. Dismal instruction in the countryside has made it easier for city slickers from posh colleges to paint their political opponents as pliable bumpkins.
The dangerous social divide is all the more reason to ...(24)... worry about Thailand's poor rating in an educational league table published in December. Thailand limped into the bottom quarter of 70 countries whose pupils participated in the mathematics, reading and science tests organised under the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA). Its scores ...(25)... been crushed since a previous assessment in 2012, when researchers found that almost one-third of the country's 15-year-olds were “functionally illiterate”, including almost half of those studying in rural schools. Thailand's ...(26)... error performance is not dramatically out of step with countries of similar incomes. But it is strange given its unusually generous ...(27)... allocation of on education, which in some years has hoovered up more than a quarter of the budget. Rote learning is common. There is a shortage of maths and science teachers, but a ...(28)... overflow .of physical-education instructors. Many head teachers lack the authority to hire or fire their own staff.
A big problem is that Thailand spends too much money propping up small schools, where teaching is the poorest. Almost half of Thailand schools have fewer than 120 students. and most of those have less than one teacher per class. Opening
lots of village schools once helped Thailand ...(29)... achieve impressive attendance rates, but road-building and other improvements in infrastructure mean most schools are now within '20 minutes of another.
Over the next ten years falling birth rates will reduce school rolls by more than 1m, making it ever more ...(30)... fulfilled for tiny institutions to provide adequate instruction at a reasonable cost.
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21). select the right option for 21 from the options given below
| A). diluting |
| B). nurturing |
| C). alleviating |
| D). ornamental |
| E). The given option(s) is/are correct |
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22). select the right option for 22 from the options given below
| A). contracts |
| B). characteristic |
| C). distinct |
| D). differences |
| E). The given option(s) is/are correct |
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23). select the right option for 23 from the options given below
| A). preceded |
| B). managed |
| C). compelled |
| D). led |
| E). The given option(s) is/are correct |
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24). select the right option for 24 from the options given below
| A). concern |
| B). apprehension |
| C). fearful |
| D). distress |
| E). The given option(s) is/are correct |
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25). select the right option for 25 from the options given below
| A). deteriorated |
| B). sink |
| C). decomposed |
| D). declining |
| E). The given option(s) is/are correct |
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26). select the right option for 26 from the options given below
| A). extreme |
| B). cheerful |
| C). dismal |
| D). inauspicious |
| E). The given option(s) is/are correct |
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27). select the right option for 27 from the options given below
| A). employed |
| B). investing |
| C). spending |
| D). setting |
| E). The given option(s) is/are correct |
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28). select the right option for 28 from the options given below
| A). satiety |
| B). surplus with |
| C). saturated |
| D). surfeit |
| E). The given option(s) is/are correct |
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29). select the right option for 29 from the options given below
| A). complete |
| B). conclude |
| C). acquired |
| D). adhere |
| E). The given option(s) is/are correct |
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30). select the right option for 30 from the options given below
| A). difficult |
| B). ambition |
| C). troubling |
| D). doubtful |
| E). The given option(s) is/are correct |
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