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Before the war ended, these thirteen states realized that they would need to work together in peacetime as they had been 51 ______ to do in wartime. In 1782 they put into effect a plan for 52______ under a federal system. This meant that each of the states would remain 53 ______ in many ways but would join with the others in a government that would be able to do things that individual states could not do by themselves with success. Unfortunately this plan did not provide for a federal government strong enough to 54______ it to do what needed to be done. This became clear after a few years of experience. In 1786 a call went out to all the states inviting them to send delegates to a meeting to be held in Philadelphia in the spring of 1787. This meeting was the Constitutional Convention, a great 55________ point in American history.

No more important meeting has ever been held in America. To it came fifty-five men, 56 ______ them some of the most famous men in our history. They included George Washington who presided over the convention, Benjamin Franklin, James Madison, and Alexander Hamilton. They worked 57______ and in secret from May well into September and adjourned only after they had written a new plan of government to be sent to the thirteen states for 58______ The document was the Constitution of the United States. A great English statesman called this constitution “the most 59 ______ work known to me in modern times to have been produced by the human intellect, at a single stroke (so to speak), in its 60 ______ to political affairs.” Before 1788 had ended, the Constitution had been approved in most of the states and in 1789 it went into effect. Since then it has been the fundamental law of the nation.

(From The Constitution of the United States)

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What does the statement “All men are created equal.” mean according to the passage?

It was twenty years ago and I was living in Paris. [63 I had a tiny apartment in the Latin Quarter overlooking a cemetery and I was earning barely enough money to keep body and soul together.] She had read a book of mine and had written to me about it. I answered, thanking her, and presently I received from her another letter saying that she was passing through Paris and would like to have a chat with me; but her time was limited and the only free moment she had was on the following Thursday; she was spending the morning at the Luxembourg and would I give her a little luncheon at Foyot’s afterwards? [64 Foyot’s is a restaurant at which the French senators eat and it was so far beyond my means that I had never even thought of going there. ][65 But I was flattered and I was too young to have learned to say no to a woman.] (Few men, I may add, learn this until they are too old to make it of any consequence to a woman what they say.)[ 66 I had eighty francs (gold francs) to last me the rest of the month, and a modest luncheon should not cost more than fifteen.]If I cut out coffee for the next two weeks I could manage well enough.

I answered that I would meet my friend—by correspondence—at Foyot’s on Thursday at half past twelve. [67 She was not so young as I expected and in appearance imposing rather than attractive.]She was, in fact, a woman of forty (a charming age, but not one that excites a sudden and devastating passion at first sight), and she gave me the impression of having more teeth, white and large and even, than were necessary for any practical purpose. She was talkative, but since she seemed inclined to talk about me I was prepared to be an attentive listener. 

(From The Luncheon)

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What’s the function of education in a society? Why does the public education show great interest in exceptional children?

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