【正文】 derstood. Practice, of course, may make nonsense of even the best theoretical intentions, and often the less politically powerful are badly catered for under governments implementing 39。 policies.161。161。It is no wonder that given the two major choices offered them, Australian voters are increasingly turning their attention to the smaller political parties, which claim to offer a more balanced swag of policies, often based around one major current issue. Thus, for instance, at the last election there was the No Aircraft Noise Parry, popular in city areas, and the Green Party, which is almost solely concerned with environmental issues.TRUE163。FALSE163。NOT GIVEN1. Policies is support of the concept of a welfare society are costly.2. Australians usually vote for the party they supported early in life.3. The Labor Party was formed by the trade unions.4. Radical groups are only found within the Labor Party.5. The Liberal Party was formed after the Labor Party.6. Welfarebased societies invariably bee bankrupt.7. According to the author, theories do not always work in practice.8. Some Australian voters are confused about who to vote for.9. The NoAircraftNoise Party is only popular in the city.10. The smaller parties are only concerned about the environment.Practice 5170。Para 171。s present level of education could fall well short of future career 164。164。It is no secret that petition is the driving force behind the need to obtain increasingly higher qualifications. In the majority of cases, the urge to upgrade is no longer the result of an insatiable thirst for knowledge. The pressure is ing from within the workplace to pete with ever more qualified job applicants, and in many occupations one must now battle with colleagues in the reshuffle for the position one already 164。164。Striving to bee better educated is hardly a new concept. Wealthy parents have always been willing to spend the vast amounts of extra money necessary to send their children to schools with a perceived educational edge. Working adults have long attended night schools and refresher courses. Competition for employment has been around since the curse of working for a living began. Is the present situation so very different to that of the past?para 4. 170。The difference now is that the push is universal and from without as well as within. A student at secondary school receiving low grades is no longer as easily accepted by his or her peers as was once the case. Similarly, in the workplace, unless employees are engaged in parttime study, they may be frowned upon by their employers and peers and have difficulty even standing still. In fact, in these cases, the expectation is for careers to go backwards and earning capacity to take an appreciable 164。164。At first glance, the situation would seem to be laudable。clever country39。paper39。170。para 171。Gatsby also argues that there are attitudinal changes within society to the exalted role education now plays in determining how the spoils of working life are distributed. Individuals of all ages are being driven by social pressures to achieve academic success solely for monetary considerations instead of for the joy of enlightenment. There is the danger that some universities are being degree factories with an attendant drop in standards. Furthermore, our education system may be rewarding doggedness above creativity。user pays39。170。para 171。s ments regarding university standards have been roundly criticised as alarmist by most educationists who point out that, by any standard of measurement, Australia39。175。175。s education because of the prestige attached to certain schools5. According to the text, students who performed bally at school used to be accepted by their classmates.6. Employees who do not undertake extra study may find their salary decreased by employers.7. Australians appear to have responded to the call by a former Prime Minister to bee better qualified.8. Australia39。161。161。Humans think in categories: black and white, up and down, left and right. It39。161。161。Research has shown that there is genetic or inherited element to handedness. But while lefthandedness tends to run in families, neither left nor right handers will automatically produce offspring with the same handedness。161。161。s left hemisphere, Psychologists now believe that among right handed people, probably 95 per cent have their language centre in the left hemisphere, while 5 per cent have rightsided language, Lefthanders, however,do not