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Question numbers 66 to 70 : 

Read the following passage carefully and select correct answers to the questions given hlow :
              Universities exist for a double purpose - to give advanced specialized training in such subjects as medicine, law, and engineering, for the practitioners of which a high degree of technical knowledge is indispensable, and in the second place, to encourage disinterested researches and to impart to those capable of receiving it advanced learning of a less obviously and immediately practical kind. A certain proportion of the young people attending Universities do so for the purpose of making a career in one of the professions. The rest are there, nominally, to finish their education by the acquisition of disinterested higher learning. In reality, however, most of them attend the university for reasons entirely unconnected with this higher learning, for which they feel no natural appetite and whose nature, significance and object they are therefore unable to comprehend. They enrol themselves as students, or are enrolled by their solicitous parents, because, in the first place, to have attended a University (particularly if the university happens io be a notoriously expensive one) gives a certain social cachet; because a university is a delightful club for young people; and finally because the modern University, at any rate in England and America, is a great athletic organization. When we have deducted from the total number of non-professional students all those who attend the University only for reasons of snobbery and sociability, and for love of sport, the residue of genuine philomaths will be remarkably small. And yet, leaving the professionals out of account for the moment, it is precisely for the philomaths that Universities ought to cater Students who are merely clubmen, snobs, and athletes should be excluded. Of all the Universities, Oxford and Cambridge contain the largest proportion of non-professional and merely snobbish and athletic students.