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This document summarizes key points from the book "Outliers: The Story of Success" by Malcolm Gladwell. It discusses differences in educational opportunities and outcomes between wealthy and poor students. Specifically, it notes that virtually all of the advantage wealthy students have in reading skills is due to differences in how they learn during summer breaks when school is not in session. Wealthy students gain 52 points in reading scores over summers through activities like attending summer camp and museums, while poor students only gain 0.26 points with fewer educational opportunities outside of school.

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Aptis Preposition Test 1 Answer

This document summarizes key points from the book "Outliers: The Story of Success" by Malcolm Gladwell. It discusses differences in educational opportunities and outcomes between wealthy and poor students. Specifically, it notes that virtually all of the advantage wealthy students have in reading skills is due to differences in how they learn during summer breaks when school is not in session. Wealthy students gain 52 points in reading scores over summers through activities like attending summer camp and museums, while poor students only gain 0.26 points with fewer educational opportunities outside of school.

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The following paragraphs have been taken from Outliers: The Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell:

Please use correct preposition to complete the story.

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1. Belgium and Denmark are only an hour or so apart __by_ airplane, for example. Danes look a lot like
Belgians, and if you were dropped _on__ a street corner _in_ Copenhagen, you wouldn’t find it all that
different __from_ a street corner _in__ Brussels.

2. __in_ the mid-1990s, an experimental public school called the KIPP Academy opened _on__ the
fourth floor of Lou Gehrig Junior High School _in__ New York City. Lou Gehrig is _in__ the seventh
school district, otherwise known as the South Bronx, one of the poorest neighborhoods _in__ New York
City. It is a squat, gray 1960s-era building _across__ the street from a bleak-looking group of high-rises.

3. Now take a look _at__ the last column, which totals up all the summer gains _from__ first grade
_to__ fifth grade. The reading scores of the poor kids go up __by_ 0.26 points. When it comes to reading
skills, poor kids learn nothing when school is not __in_ session. The reading scores of the rich kids, by
contrast, go up _by__ a whopping 52.49 points. Virtually all of the advantage that wealthy students have
over poor students is the result of differences in the way privileged kids learn __while_ they are not
__in_ school.

4. What are we seeing here? One very real possibility is that these are the educational consequences of
the differences _in__ parenting styles that we talked about __in_ the Chris Langan chapter. Think back
to Alex Williams, the nine-year-old whom Annette Lareau studied. His parents believe _in__ concerted
cultivation. He gets taken _to__ museums and gets enrolled _in__ special programs and goes _to__
summer camp, where he takes classes. When he’s bored _at__ home, there are plenty of books to read,
and his parents see it as their responsibility to keep him actively engaged _in__ the world __around_
him. It’s hard to see how Alex would get better _at__ reading and math _over__ the summer.

ALOK DEBNATH

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