While attempting to look into the case, ______.

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Such a change would not ______ to the wishes of the great majority of the people.

Is there any evidence that the standard of English as a foreign language has improved in the years since the Second World War? Naturally, as it is the world language, more and more people are taught it and use it. But do they speak it or write it or understand it better than their parents' or grandparents' generations? Have standards declined? There is no objective way of answering this question. Tests of the traditional sort—compositions, precise writing, and so on—have always been subjective, so they cannot be used to judge whether people have got better or not over the years. But so-called objective tests are useless as a measure of progress too. They have not been used consistently in the same "concentration" over the period they have been in use, so there is no way of comparing exams "now" and "then". Moreover, usually in the form of multiple choice questions, they do not, by and large, test the things that really count in mastering a language. Even comprehension is a partly "creative" activity in real life, as we have to think of possible meanings for ourselves rather than have them suggested for us from outside. And people can be trained in the techniques of multiple choice, while others fail the tests because they have been led astray precisely by their "suggestive" nature, so they are not really objective at all. We are left with only personal impression to go on. My own is that, if anything, standards have declined somewhat in the last thirty or forty years, despite all the new theories, tools and techniques that have been developed. I am not alone in this judgment. In Sweden, for instance, Professors Johannes Hedberg and Gustav Korlen, two of the most experienced workers in the field; have on several occasions drawn attention to the lack of progress in the teaching of foreign languages since the late fifties. Yet Sweden is a sophisticated society with extremely high educational and academic standards, and very concerned not to be cut off from the rest of the world. If such a country cannot achieve advances in the study of foreign languages, it is unlikely that many, if any, others have done so. Japan is another community where remarkably little progress has been made in the learning of English. It is probably as important for Japan as for Sweden to master that language, and there is much academic effort put into linguistic research of various kinds. Yet the average standard of language learning is abysmally low, particularly for such a highly literate and educated society. This is no doubt in part the result of a vicious circle: many of the professors of English at Japanese universities are themselves incapable of speaking or writing or even understanding the language well. Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage?

From the talk we can learn that the speaker is ______.

The ancient Greeks had the notion of science as methodical knowledge, ______ and universally valid.

Trees that ______ the view of the oncoming traffic should be cut down.

Students at these schools test far below the state average in reading, and their scores have improved only ______.

When an invention is made

All the students have to ______ to the rules and the regulations of the school.

The court would not accept his appeal unless ______ evidence is provided.

His ______ directions confused us; we did not know which of the two roads to take.

There is no ______ between the sample and the final product he received.

On an average of six times a day

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______ any advice which you can get from the interviewer and follow up suggestions for improving your presentation and qualifications.

The rescue team worked hard to search for the missing mountaineers

There are far too many individuals who never get to experience the joy of attaining their desires b

There are not many teachers who are strong ______ of traditional methods in English teaching,