English Questions

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INVIGORATING

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One who does not care for literature or art

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A political leader who seeks support by appealing to popular desires and prejudices rather than by using rational argument.

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The vehicles involved in the accident were _______________ the flow of traffic.

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Combustibles – flammable

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Learning is the knowledge of that which is not generally known to others, and which we can only derive at second­hand from books or other artificial sources. The knowledge of that which is before us, or about us, which appeals to our experience, passions, and pursuits, to the bosoms and businesses of men, is not learning. Learning is the knowledge of that which none but the learned know. He is the most learned man who knows the most of what is farthest removed from common life and actual observation. The learned man prides himself in the knowledge of names, and dates, not of men or things. He thinks and cares nothing about his next­door neighbours, but he is deeply read in the tribes and castes of the Hindoos and Calmuc Tartars. He can hardly find his way into the next street, though he is acquainted with the exact dimensions of Constantinople and Peking. He does not know whether his oldest acquaintance is a knave or a fool, but he can pronounce a pompous lecture on all the principal characters in history. He cannot tell whether an object is black or white, round or square, and yet he is a professed master of the optics and the rules of perspective.

The given passage implies that

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P: Children with poor phonological skills progress more poorly.
Q: The consensus concerns the causal role of phonological skills in young children’s reading progress.
R: Studies of the factors governing reading development in young children have achieved a remarkable degree of consensus over the past two decades.
S: Children who have good phonological skills, or good phonological awareness become good readers and good spellers.