Reading passages

140-Hedge Schoolmasters ---- .
A) had to teach secretly, as what they were doing 
was illegal 
B) provided the only legal education for Catholics at 
that time 
C) worked for one of the departments of Trinity 
College 
D) taught in order to raise money for school 
buildings 
E) began their work in Ireland in the 16th century 
141 -One difficulty that Hedge Schoolmasters and 
their pupil were faced with was that ---- .
A) the school masters weren‟t properly trained 
B) the students had to study Latin and Greek 
C) they didn't have any school books 
D) the masters and pupils spoke different languages 
E) there were not enough teachers for all the 
students 
An average child of 5 years old uses only 1,500 of 
the 150,000 "dictionary" words that a modern 
language contains. But this small treasury is used 
very intensively, by him during the years of learning, 
at the rate of about 1,000 words an hour, or from 
7,000 to 15,000 words each day for an active child. 
School quickly increases his vocabulary, but leaves 
him with less opportunity for using it. At 10 years 
old, his treasury amounts to 7,000 words, of which 
about 30% are used actively -the remainder is seldom 
or never used and in an hour he will use about 700 
words. By the time he enters university, his word 
inventory will have grown to 20.000, and on 
graduation to 
60.000, but of these only 10% -20%will be in active 
use. 
142 -According to the passage, in general, a 5 -
year old -child ----- .
A) has an enormous, vocabulary for his age 
B) can learn 1.000 words in an hour 
C) knows, but doesn‟t use, about 150~000 words
D) learns about 7.000 to 15.000 words each day
E) uses only one percent of avai1able words 
143 -The passage tells us that when a child goes to