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In the last half of the nineteenth century capital and labour were enlarging and perfecting their rival organizations on modern lines. Many an old firm was replaced by a limited liability company with a bureaucracy of salaried managers. The change met the technical requirements of the new age by engaging a large professional element and prevented the decline in efficiency that socommonly spoiled the fortunes of family firms in the second and third generation after theenergetic founders. It was moreover a step away from individual initiative, towards collectivism and municipal and state-owned business. The railway companies, though still private business managed for the benefit of shareholders, were very unlike old family business. At the same time the great municipalities went into business to supply lighting, trams and other services to thetaxpayers.59. Its true of the old family firms that ________.[A] they were spoiled by the younger generations[B] they failed for lack of individual initiative[C] they lacked efficiency compared with modern companies[D] they could supply adequate services to the taxpayersThe old idea that talented children “burn themselves out” in the early years, and, therefore, are subjected to failure and at worst, mental illness is unfounded. As a matter of fact, the outstanding thing that happens to bright kids is that they are very likely to grow into bright adults.23.The old idea that talented children “burn themselves out” in the early years is ________.[A] true in all senses[B] refuted by the author[C] medically proven[D] a belief of the authorIs language, like food, a basic human need without which a child at acritical period of life can be starved and damaged? Judging from thedrastic experiment of Frederick II in the thirteenth century, it may be.Hoping to discover what language a child would speak if he heard nomother tongue, he told the nurses to keep silent.31.The purpose of Frederick II’s experiment was ________.[A] to prove that ch