Proofread the given passage on ANSWER SHEET TWO as
instructed. For a wrong word, underline the wrong word and write
the correct one in the blank provided at the end of the line.
For a missing word, mark the position of the missing word with a" ∧ "sign
and write the word you believe to be missing in the blank provided at the end of
the line. For an unnecessary word, cross the unnecessary word
with a slash "—" and put the word in the blank provided at the end of the
line.
If it were only necessary to decide whether to teach
elementary science to everyone on a mess basis or to find the gifted few and
take them as far as they can go, our task would be (1)
______ fairly simple. The public school system, moreover, has no such choice,
for the two jobs (2) ______ must be carried
on at the same time. Because we depend so heavily upon science and technology
for our progress, we must produce specialists in many fields. Because we live
(3) ______ in a democratic nation, whose citizens
make the policies for the country, large numbers of (4)
______ us must be educated to understand, to support, and when necessary, to
judge the work of experts. The public school must educate for both producers
and users of scientific ser (5)
______ vices. In education there should be a good balance among the branches
of knowledge that attribute to effective thinking and wise judgment. Such
balance is defeated by too much (6)
______ emphasis on any one field. This question of balance involves not only
the relation of the natural sciences, the social sciences, and the arts but
also relative emphases between the (7) ______ natural
sciences themselves. By contrast, we must have a balance between the current and
(8) ______ classical knowledge. The attention of
the public is continuously drawn to new possibilities (9)
______ in scientific fields and the discovery of new knowledge; these should
not be allowed to turn our attention from the sound, established materials
that form the basis of courses for (10)
______ beginners.