McGraw-Hill and its licensors do not warrant or guarantee that the functions contained in the work will meet your requirements or that its operation will be uninterrupted or error free. Neither McGraw-Hill nor its licensors shall be liable to you or anyone else for any inaccuracy, error or omission, regardless of cause, in the work or for any damages resulting therefrom. | 104 4. France s was dismantled after the royal family was killed and lesser aristocrats were jailed during the revolution. 5. In the United States many families do not have health in- surance because their employers don t offer it. TOEFL Success Read the passage to review the vocabulary you have learned. Answer the questions that follow. The United States is not the land of equal are no titles of nobility as in Europe but astounding affluence is passed on in Bonus Structure The reference to studies in the 1970s indicates some objective evidence for the author s point. privileged families and this makes all the difference. Studies in the 1970s found that a child of the elite and a child of the working class may start out with similar intelligence and drive but the rich child is about 30 times more likely to prosper. The rich child goes to high-prestige schools where his or her education may be only slightly above average but where the child accumulates friendships with future leaders. The privileged child becomes comfortable with luxury and is at ease in situations where powerful people working-class child from a less-prestigious college is not likely to wind up impoverished but neither is he or she likely to attend many parties of Yale or Vassar alumni. 1. Which sentence best expresses the essential information of this passage a. The American economy is unfair and must be changed. b. Rich people have natural advantages in education and social contacts that help them succeed. c. Children accept one another as friends only later in life do differences of wealth drive them apart. d. The only way to make money in America is to work and accumulate it yourself. 2. Why does the author of this reading mentionYale and Vassar a. They are elite schools attended by many future leaders. b. They are where government officials have secret meetings. 105 c. They try to give working-class .
