tailieunhanh - university math english 6

Tham khảo tài liệu 'university math english 6', ngoại ngữ, anh ngữ phổ thông phục vụ nhu cầu học tập, nghiên cứu và làm việc hiệu quả | ------------------------------- ACT READING TEST PRACTICE ---------------------------------------- neglect and private greed is here to stay forever a center of our civilization. Nothing is left but to 30 make the best of a bad bargain. The story is dark enough drawn from the plain public records to send a chill to any heart. If it shall appear that the sufferings and the sins of the other half and the evil they breed are but as a fitting punishment upon the community that gave it no other choice it will be because that is the truth. The boundary line lies there because while the forces for good on one side vastly out- 35 weigh the bad not otherwise in the tenements all the influences make for evil because they are the hotbeds of the epidemics that carry death to rich and poor alike the nurseries of poverty and crime that fill our jails and courts that throw off forty thousand human wrecks to the island asylums and workhouses year by year that turned out in the last eight years a round half million beggars to prey upon our charities that maintain a standing army of ten thousand panhandlers with 40 all that that implies because above all they touch the family life with deadly moral poison. This is their worst crime inseparable from the system. That we have to own it the child of our own wrong does not excuse it even though it gives it claim upon our utmost patience and tenderest charity. 21. The main idea of the first paragraph is a. The rich do not care about the poor until their own lives are affected. b. The rich know nothing about the lives of the poor. c. The rich and the poor lead very different lives. d. The poor revolted against the rich. 22. According to the passage the other half refers to f. the rich. g. criminals. h. children. j. the poor. 23. According to the Secretary of the Prison Association the main reason for increased crime was a. blamed on younger criminals. b. a lack of decent housing for the poor. c. the wealthy people s indifference to the .