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Perhaps it was his own lack of adequate schooling that inspired Horace Mann to work so hard for the important reforms in education that he accomplished. While he was still a boy, his father and older brother died, and he became responsible for supporting his family. Like most of the children in his town, he attended school only two or three months a year. Later, with the help of several teachers, he was able to study law and became a member of the Massachusetts bar, but he never forgot those early struggles.

While serving in Massachusetts legislature, he signed a historic education bill that set up a state board of education. Without regret, he gave up his successful legal practice and political career to become the first secretary of the board. There he exercised an enormous influence during the critical period of reconstruction that brought into existence the American graded elementary school as substitute for the older distinct school system. Under his leadership, the curriculum was restructured, the school year was increased to a minimum of six months, and mandatory schooling was extended to age sixteen. Other important reforms included the establishment of state normal schools for teacher training, institutes for in-service teacher education, and lyceums for adult education. He was also instrument in improving salaries for teachers and creating school libraries.

Mann’s ideas about school reform were developed and distributed in twelve annual reports to the state of Massachusetts that he wrote during his tenure as secretary of education. Considered quite radical at the time, the Massachusetts reforms later served as a model for the nation. Mann was recognized as the farther of public education.

The word “struggles” in line 5 could best be replaced by _______. 

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It is essential that he __________. His illness seems worse. 

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My parents lent me the money. ________, I couldn’t have afforded the trip. 

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It is stated that we are now in the first stages of a battle for the ______ of life on the earth. 

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You should concentrate ___________ what the interviewer is saying and make a real effort to answer all the questions. 

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______ she could not say anything. 

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Chandler was shocked (A) when his entire class (B) seemed to come down with (C) the same imaginative disease (D). 

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If that was done on a national scale, we would wipe out this infectious disease. 

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________ appears considerably larger at the horizon than it does overhead is merely an illusion.

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Jane wasn’t in when I arrived. I supposed she ______ I was coming. 

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“I was not there at the time”, he said. 

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“Don’t stay up late any longer, ___________?” 

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I ______ on this project for many consecutive days without success. 

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She spent her free time _______ the crossword puzzles in the newspapers. 

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He didn’t want to risk ______ late for the interview

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