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Passage #4 (Questions 56-60)  The class basis of the education system was most explicit in the Taunton Commission Report of 1864, which dealt withschooling for ‘those large classes of English society which are comprised between the humblest and the very highest.’ It dividedall secondary schools into three grades according to the social class for which they catered, the division to be determined bysize of fee, by the careers for which they prepared, and by a strictly enforced leaving age: ‘the fixing of the age would be themost certain means of defining the work which the school had to do, and keeping it to that work.’ The first grade would charge12 to 25 guineas a year for day boys, £60 to £120 for boarders, would cater for the gentry, large rentiers, successful professionalmen, and business men ‘whose profits put them on the same level,’ having a leaving age of 18 or 19, and prepare for university.The second grade would charge 6 to 12 guineas a year for day boys, £25 to £40 for boarders, would educate the professionaland business men, large shopkeepers, and farmers for the professions, commerce and industry and have a leaving age of 16 soas to prevent them from preparing for the university. The third grade would charge only 2 to 4 guineas a year and be subsidizedfrom public funds, would be for ‘a class distinctly lower in the scale,’ the sons of small farmers, tradesmen and superior artisans,who should be compelled to leave at 14.The whole aim was to segregate the classes so as not to educate the lower above their station or embarrass the higher with lowcompany: ‘class distinctions within any school are exceedingly mischievous both to those whom they raise and to those whomthey lower,’ and even a few working class boys ‘seem to form an obstacle to the schools becoming attractive to others.’ Freeplaces or closed scholarships for poor or local boys should be abolished and replaced by open exhibitions for ‘boys of realability in whatever rank they may be found.’ The latter, of course, gave a decisive advantage to the already educated.The Commission, and the Endowed Schools Act of 1869 which carried out most of its recommendations, did their best toensure that the social climber should indeed be self-made, and get no help whatever from the schools.
56. What will be the most appropriate title for the article?
(A) Everyone shall be educated
(B) Class and education in 19th-century England
(C) Towards modern educational ideas
(D) Universities versus schools
(E) Academic talent rewarded

參考答案

答案：B
難度：困難0.384615
統計：A(0),B(5),C(1),D(3),E(2)

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