READING (19) BUILDING SKILLS CAMBRIDGE PREPARATION FOR THE TOEFL® IBT TEST

 

CAMBRIDGE PREPARATION FOR THE TOEFL® IBT TEST BUILDING SKILLS READING (19)

 

EXERCISES R4-R8 Use Exercises R4-R8 to build your skills in understanding the connection of ideas in reading passages. EXERCISE R8 Inserting sentences For each passage, choose the letter of the square where the bold sentence would fit.   1 A Pragmatism is essentially an American school of thought that has had few supporters elsewhere. B One of the first-pragmatists, William James, wrote that it was impossible to discover the real world outside our senses and therefore we must concern ourselves primarily with human experience. C Because the world would be a worse place without a belief in human responsibility, morals and free will, it was necessary, he considered, to believe in these concepts. D Another pragmatist, John Dewey, held that since truth is an instrument for solving problems, it must change as the problems it confronts change. Pragmatists believe that the test of any belief should be its practical consequences and that the truth of proposition should be judged on how well it corresponds with experimental results.

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