18. C) Truancy.
19. D) Students with good attendance records.
20. B) Rewarding schools that have decreased the destruction.
Part II Reading Comprehension
Passage One
21. D) To discourage people from insisting on having grandchildren.
22. B) draw attention to the troubles and difficulties grandchildren may cause.
23. A) they find it hard to resist the carrot-and-stick approach of their parents
24. A) her parents kept pressuring her to have a child.
25. C) It is troublesome but rewarding
Passage Two
26. D) People can fully enjoy individual freedom.
27. A) the more diligent one is, the bigger his returns.
28. C) became wealthy after starting life very poor.
29. B) Americans wish to succeed in every aspect of life.
30. D) What Americans strive after often contradicts their beliefs.
Passage Three
31. B) Quick economic returns
32. C) obtain funding from the government
33. A) They think they work in an environment hostile to the free pursuit of knowledge.