Sample: Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate
the word or phrase that best fits each of the numbered blanks.
Postsecondary institutions and private schools are co rporations under U.S. law. They are approved to operate as
non-profit, for-profit, or public corporations (1)______ education and training. Increasingly, state authorities are
requiring approved educational providers to apply (2)______ and receive accreditation as a condition of final
and continued approval. As corporate entities, U.S. institutions are intern ally self-governing and are (3)______
to make property, facilities, equipment, and utilities transactions; make th eir own personnel decisions; decide
whom to admit to study and to graduate; (4)______ their own funds from ou tside sources; enter into contracts
and compete for grants; and do most of the other things that corporat ions do. Institutions compete (5)______
one another for students, research funding, faculty, and other benefits. Public institutions may compete within
the same state or territory for budget appropriations. It is the corporate nature of institutions and the competition
within the system that (6)_____ Americans to refer to the concept of the educational or academic marketplace -
an important distinctive element of the way U.S. education is organized. Some institutions are governed
(7)______ under multi-campus arrangements. These include most local public schools (governed by school
districts) and many state community college and university systems. Whether single- or multi-campus,
institutional corporations (8)______ by boards of citizens, both alumni and non-alumni, who are ultimately
responsible for all operations. They appoint senior (9)______, such as principals, headmasters, presidents, and
deans; and approve the actions taken (10)______ their name.
1. A: provide B: provision C: providing D: provided
2. A: on B: to C: for D: with
3. A: possible B: capable C: able D: probable
4. A: raise B: rise C: lend D: call
5. A: for B: at C: to D: with
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