AccelePrep for the ACT Test 2nd Edition Student Text

250 • P OWER U P ! T HE E XCLUSIVE C AMBRIDGE S AMPLE E XAM

19. A. NO CHANGE B. as a means or a way to C. to D. as 20. F. NO CHANGE G. Talking H. They talked about J. With the talking about 21. A. NO CHANGE B. precede C. precede over D. took precedence on 22. F. NO CHANGE G. outlook, asserted its H. outlook; asserted its J. outlook asserts their 23. A. NO CHANGE B. being C. were D. were like 24. F. NO CHANGE G. virtues—some H. virtues, some J. virtues; some

Talking about education as a bulwark for liberty, equality, popular consent, and devotion to the public 20 good, goals that took precedence over the uses of knowledge for self-improvement or occupational preparation. Over and over again, the Revolutionary generation, both liberal and conservative in outlook—assert their faith that the welfare of the Republic rested upon an educated citizenry. All agreed that the principal ingredients of a civic education was literacy and inculcation of 21 22 23 patriotic and moral virtues some others added the study of history and the study of the principles of the republican government itself. The founders, as was the case of almost all their successors, were long on exhortation and rhetoric regarding the value of civic education; since they left it to the textbook writers to distill the essence of those values for school children. Texts in American history and government appeared as early as the 1790s. The textbook writers turned out being very largely of conservative persuasion, more likely Federalist in outlook than Jeffersonian, 24 25 26 26 largely in political terms instead of as a means to ƒ…ƒ†‡‹…‡š…‡ŽŽ‡…‡ ‘” ‹†‹˜‹†—ƒŽ •‡ŽˆǦˆ—Žϐ‹ŽŽ‡–Ǥ 19

25. A. NO CHANGE B. education. And C. education. Since D. education, but 26. F. NO CHANGE G. turned out to be H. turning out to be

J. having turned out to be

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