IELTS Reading inference Practice
The author implies that the UK was slower than the US to adopt mass public education because...
Question type: sentence completion · Difficulty: advanced
- A. it lacked the necessary financial resources.
- B. existing powerful institutions resisted the change.
- C. its population was already highly literate.
- D. it did not face the challenge of high immigration.
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Paragraph D states that the UK was slower to adopt a state system 'due to entrenched class interests and the strong influence of religious schools.' These 'entrenched class interests' and 'religious schools' represent existing powerful institutions that resisted the move towards a centralized, state-run system.