Answer: Yes.

28. Fewer students are reading classical studies at university than

before.
29. The purists welcome classical studies courses unreservedly.
30. The writer agrees fully with the purists’ point of view.
31. A classical education is frowned upon in political circles.
Questions 32–40
Complete the text below, which is a summary of the writer’s opinion
on a classical education. Use One Word Only from the text to
complete each blank space. Write your answers in Boxes 32–40 on
your answer sheet.
You may use each word once only.
Example: Latin and Greek are known as the…
The writer considers a classical education to be a… (32)
Answer: classics.
He believes that, in secondary school, the teaching of classics has
been … (33) by the introduction of the National Curriculum. This has
further led to the studying of the classics being attacked as … (34).
In addition, studying Latin and Greek is wrongly … (35) as being …
(36), because classicists have no specific …(37) route to follow. As
young people are pressurised to make money, the writer feels that
the relevancy … (38) is difficult to counter.
In spite of the criticisms levelled at a classical education, the writer
feels that learning Latin and Greek is highly… (39). And he fears that
there is a danger that the classics as a discipline will be … (40). But
help is at hand from a new Internet-based distance-learning
programme being piloted in 60 schools from autumn 2000. The pilot
study will allow pupils to study Latin at their own pace.
Answers
28. NO
29. NO
30. NO