Cooperation is the common endeavor of two or more people to perform a task or reach a jointly cherished goal. Like competition and conflict, there are different forms of cooperation, based on group organization and attitudes.

   In the first form, known as primary cooperation, group and individual fuse. The group contains nearly all of each individual’s life. The rewards of the group’s work are shared with each member. There is an interlocking identity of individual, group and task performed. Means and goals become one, for cooperation itself is valued.

   While primary cooperation is most often characteristic of preliterate societies, secondary cooperation is characteristic of many modem societies. In secondary cooperation, individuals devote only part of their lives to the group. Cooperation itself is not a value. Most members of the group feel loyalty, but the welfare of the group is not the first consideration. Members perform tasks so that they can separately enjoy the fruits of their cooperation in the form of salary prestige, or power. Business offices and professional athletic teams are examples of secondary cooperation.

   In the third type called tertiary cooperation or accommodation, latent conflict underlies the shared work. The attitudes of the cooperating parties are purely opportunistic: the organization is loose and fragile. Accommodation involves common means to achieve antagonistic goals: it breaks down when the common means cease to aid each party in reaching its goals. This is not, strictly speaking cooperation at all, and hence the somewhat contradictory term antagonistic cooperation is sometimes used for this relationship.

Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the questions

What is the author’s main purpose in the first paragraph of to passage?

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• Education in early times was mostly aimed at _______.

• What is probably true about school picnics in recent years?

• The word "evidenced" in line 22 is closest in meaning to .............

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• Which of the following is NOT given as an advantage of using biological agents over chemical herbicides?

• Which of the following was NOT mentioned in the passage as a source of information for The Sea Around Us?

• The word "origins" in paragraph 3 is closest in meaning to ______.

• The topic of the passage is ________.

• In the second paragraph, the word "stored" is closest in meaning to ............

• The author uses the word “But” in paragraph 4 to ______.

• When she decided to give up Facebook ..............

• The word “solid” in paragraph 3 means most nearly the same as .................

• All of the following are mentioned in the passage about supercells EXCEPT that they ________.

• The word “principle” in paragraph 3 is closest in meaning to ........

• The word "it" in paragraph 7 refers to ______.

• Which of the following can be inferred from the passage?

• After which year did the town really begin developing?

• The word “metamorphosis” in paragraph 2 is closest in meaning to_________.

• The word “microbes” in paragraph 3 could best be replaced by which of the following?

• Which of the following is NOT mentioned as the denomination of an American coin?

• Where did Moore spend most of her adult life?