Select the correct text in the passage. In "Address to Students at Moscow State University," President Reagan expresses the idea that progress can only be achieved if man is free to
pursue knowledge and learn from his mistakes.
Which two sentences from the passage best support this concept?
from Address to Students at Moscow State University
by Ronald Reagan
Like a chrysalls, we're emerging from the economy of the Industrial Revolution - an economy confined to and limited by the Earth's physical
resources - Into, as one economist titled his book, "The Economy in Mind," in which there are no bounds on human imagination and the
freedom to create is the most precious natural resource. Think of that little computer chip. Its value Isn't In the sand from which it is made but in
the microscopic architecture designed into it by Ingenious human minds. Or take the example of the satellite relaying this broadcast around the
world, which replaces thousands of tons of copper mined from the Earth and molded into wire. In the new economy, human Invention
Increasingly makes physical resources obsolete. We're breaking through the material conditions of existence to a world where man creates his
own destiny. Even as we explore the most advanced reaches of science, we're returning to the age-old wisdom of our culture, a wisdom
contained in the book of Genesis in the Bible: In the beginning was the spirit, and it was from this spirit that the material abundance of creation
Issued forth.
But progress is not foreordained. The key is freedom -- freedom of thought, freedom of Information, freedom of communication. The
renowned scientist, scholar, and founding father of this university, Mikhail Lomonosov, knew that. "It is common knowledge," he said, "that the
achievements of science are considerable and rapid, particularly once the yoke of slavery is cast off and replaced by the freedom of philosophy."
You know, one of the first contacts between your country and mine took place between Russian and American explorers. The Americans were
members of Cook's last voyage on an expedition searching for an Arctic passage on the Island of Unalaska, they came upon the Russlans, who
took them in, and together with the native inhabitants, held a prayer service on the ice.
The explorers of the modern era are the entrepreneurs, men with vision, with the courage to take risks and faith enough to brave the
unknown. These entrepreneurs and their small enterprises are responsible for almost all the economic growth in the United States. They are the
prime movers of the technological revolution. In fact, one of the largest personal computer firms in the United States was started by two college
students, no older than you in the garage behind their home. Some people, even in my own country, look at the riot of experiment that is the
free market and see only waste. What of all the entrepreneurs that fall? Well, many do, particularly the successful ones; often several times. And
if you ask them the secret of their success, they'll tell you it's all that they learned their struggles along the way, yes, it's what they learned
from failing. Like an athlete in competition or a scholar in pursuit of the truth, experience is the greatest teacher.
And that's why it's so hard for government planners, no matter how sophisticated, to ever substitute for millions of Individuals working night
and day to make their dreams come true.