2. Industrial Revolution. Match the inventions with their inventors:

1779 Samuel Crompton,	cotton gin
1831 Michael Faraday	steam engine with cylinders (condencers).
1768 Richard Arkwright,	steam engine operated by atmospheric pressure
1776 James Watt,	magneto electricity
1691 Thomas Savery,	steam engine for pumping water out of a well
1708 Thomas Newcomen,	flying shuttle
1733, John Kay,	spinning frame
1765 James Hargreaves,	waterframe
1793 Eli Whitney.	spinning Jenny

Test 6

1. Consider the following questions and items in writing:

1) What advantages or disadvantages do you see in the survival of the monarchy in Britain?

2) Why does Britain, unlike other countries, have no written constitution? Ought one to be introduced?

3) Does the political system in Britain put too much power in the hands of the Prime Minister?

4) Discuss the civil servants' duty of loyalty to their political chiefs.

5) Why has the Labour left regularly wanted to abolish the House of Lords?

6) Some people favour more central control of local administration, others favour more local autonomy and independence. What are the main arguments on both sides?

7) As factors influencing the increase in crime, how-would you assess the following?

a) decline in respect of authority⁷ in general

b) violence on television, films, etc

c) encouragement, through advertising, of excessive expectations

d) unemployment f) other factors

Test 7

1. Consider the following questions and problems in writing:

1) What do you think are the causes and implications of the switch in work from "production" industries to "services"?

2) It is claimed that economic activity is more efficient if carried on by the private sector than by the public. Is this true?

3) Has the permissive society-made more satisfactory for women?

4) Can you explain the idea of a multicultural society?

5) Although many people aged over sixty-five depend entirely on state pensions, a growing proportion have substantial other incomes. Would it be right to make the rate of state pension depend on the means of the individual?

6) Is Britain a "good" member of the European Union?

7) Assess the importance for Britain of links with the Commonwealth, the United States and the rest of Europe.

8) Contrast Scottish and Welsh nationalism in political terms and general attitudes.

Test 8

1 Consider the following questions and problems in writing:

1) Is the rule of the private sector a positive or a negative influence on education as a whole?

2) Do you favour the use of a selective process to divide children at age eleven or later, between separate schools, or separate classes, according to ability? Or should they all be kept together?

3) Relatively few childern of manual workers receive higher-level education. What prospect is there of changing this?

4) A few years ago individual schools w/ere given a new right to opt out of local authority control altogether. Is this a good idea?

5) Since 1988 schools in the state system must include a period for religious worship on each day's timetable. What do you think about the revival of this practice which was disregarded for a long lime?

6) Unlike in the past, the money value of the students' grant is not at present increased to take account of inflation but students are able to receive loans from state funds to make up the difference. Each student's repayment of a loan depends on the student's earnings.

Taking into account the cost of administering this scheme, is it a good idea? Or would it be better to continue with grants big enough to cover the total cost of studvina?