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Reading Comprehension

7. “A non-conformist grouping” (lines 5-6), suggests that the ‘Fluxus’ community - (1) had only loose international connections (2) was a deviant organization (3) practiced a variety of artistry (4) includes members who acted courageously 8. According to the second paragraph, society’s attitude towards Beuys resulted from -

9. “Notoriety” (line 9) means -

(1) unfavorable fame (2) glory (3) importance (4) insignificance

10. Beuys was dismissed from his post at the Dusseldorf Academy -

(1) because his educational

theories were extremely radical (2) due to his political activities (3) since he believed that an artist should educate (4) because of the confusion the methods he used caused

(1) his tendency to work with ‘poor’ materials (2) his radical artistic styles (3) the fact that he combined ideology and art (4) his new educational methods

TEXT 3

The different branches of scientific inquiry may be divided into two major groups: the empirical and the nonempirical sciences. The former seek to explore, to describe, to explain, and to predict the occurrences in the world we live in. Their statements, therefore, must be checked against the facts of our experience, and they are acceptable only if they are properly supported by empirical evidence. Such evidence is obtained in 5 many different ways: by experimentation, by systematic observation, by interviews or surveys, by psychological or clinical testing, by careful examination of documents, coins, and so forth. This dependence on empirical evidence distinguishes the empirical sciences from nonempirical disciplines of logic and pure mathematics, whose propositions are proved without essential reference to empirical findings. 10 The empirical sciences in turn are often divided into the natural sciences and the social sciences. The criterion for this division is much less clear than that which distinguishes empirical from nonempirical inquiry, and there is no general agreement on precisely where the dividing line is to be drawn. Usually, the natural sciences are understood to include physics, chemistry, biology, and their border areas; the social 15 sciences are taken to comprise sociology, political science, anthropology, economics, and related disciplines. Psychology is sometimes assigned to one field, sometimes to another, and not infrequently it is said to overlap both.

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