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DOING IT THEMSELVES
In India, education is supposed to be free and universal through age 14. In fact, it often doesn't work out that way. Consider Dhiraj Sharma, the 10-year-old son of a bicycle rickshaw driver in Delhi, who was forced to stay home last year after the local states denied him admission because he didn't have the right papers - a common problem. So Dhiraj is now applying to aprivate school. For just $6 a month, the R. S. School offers a much better education than the state, says Dhiraj's father, Ramesh, complaining that his son "finished class three in government school, and he can't read anything!"
Such problems have sparked a boom in private schooling throughout the developing world. In 2000, James Tooley, an administrator for Orient Global, a Singapore company thatinvests in education for the poor, went walking in Hyderabad, India, and was startled to find private schools on virtually every corner. He launched a full-scale study in India, China and Africa, and everywhere, officials and aid agencies told him such schools for the poor didn't exist. But when his researchers explored the villages and slums, they found that not only did they exist, they wereflourishing. "It's a tremendous success story," says Tooley. "Entrepreneurs are catering to poor, low-income families, and they're achieving better than the government at a fraction of the cost".
(From "Doing it Themselves", Education, Newsweek. August 20 / August 27, 2007, page 50.)

1. It's clear in the text that Dhiraj Sharma
1 - was not admitted to a local state school in 2006
2 - can readquite well
3 - has studied only in government schools
4 - is fourteen years old
5 - is going to study in a much better private school
The right answers are only
a) 1 and 2
b) 2, 3 and 4
c) 2 and 4
d) 1, 3 and 5
e) 3, 4 and 5

2. According to the text, the latest tendencies in education nowadays, throughout the developing world, have been
1 - high private investments in education for thepoor.
2 - the existence of private schools almost everywhere
3 - better accomplishments in education at lower costs.
4 - the establishment of private schools mainly in Delhi
5 - the denial of admission of low-income children to private school
The right choices are
a) 1, 2 and 3 only
b) 2, 3 and 4 only
c) 3, 4 and 5 only
d) 1 and 5 only
e) 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5

3. In accordance to thetext, education in India is, in fact:
a) costless
b) compulsory
c) time-consuming
d) successful
e) troublesome

4. Difficulties derived from the educational system in India have led many poor students to enroll themselves
a) in private schools
b) in government schools
c) in China
d) in Africa
e) outside the country

TEXTO PARA AS PRÓXIMAS 5 QUESTÕES:
LONDON: HOME AND FAMILY
Women inthe late 19th century gave birth, on average, to 4.6 children during their lifetime. By the 1950s the average had surprisingly fallen to 2.19 children per woman. By the end of the century it dropped to 1.76 children per woman and has kept on falling dramatically so far.
Family reduction was partly a consequence of women's changing status. The 20th century saw women enter the workforce and enjoymore choices about their lives, including the choice not to marry and have children.
_______________9_________________. The issue of birth control was firstly brought out into the open in 1921 by Marie Stopes. Stopes' work dispelled some of the taboos surrounding birth control, but the real revolution occurred in the 1960s with the arrival of the oral contraceptive pill.
Smaller families andmore choices for women also meant smaller households, more people living alone, more one-parent families, and more unwed parents. By the 1990s, for example, a third of all households in London were single-person households.
Adapted from: http://www.20thcenturylondon.org.uk/server.php?show=nav.25.

Vocabulary:
dispel - acabar com
household - casa, família

5. After reading the first...