Question+22

//In Australia all school funding is centralized so that the government can ensure accountability and fair deployment of resources.// (A) Line 8 (B) Line 15 (C) Line 23 (D) Line 29 (E) Line 33
 * 22. The information in the sentence below would fit most logically after the sentence that ends on which of the following lines?**

The correct answer is (D) because the sentence ending on line 29 reads "International comparisons reveal that education is simply not a national priority in the United States the way it is in many countries." That is basically a new topic sentence- the next thing the reader would expect would be examples of education funds in other nations, and the italicized sentence does just that- it talks about the centralized school funding in Australia.

Answer choice (B) is the distractor because it the sentence ending on line 15 mentions how "property tax cuts of the 1970s and 1980s greatly decreased the resources available to schools." If the reader is not careful, they might just assume that the italicized sentence would go there because it talks about how Australia fixes the problem that American school systems are having- getting enough resources to schools. But (D) is a better option because it specifically mentions education in other countries.

Answer choice (A) doesn't work because line 8 is the middle of an idea- (there is an ellipsis)

Answer choice (C) is wrong because at line 23 the author is comparing suburban and urban schools, not America and other countries.

Answers choice (E) is wrong because it is comparing the education world with the work world. Nothing to do with Australia or school funding.