Primary education is ………for all children from 6 to 11 years old.. school is a school for young people between the ages of 16 and 18.. from/for children to attend school 2.. The school ye
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1 The college offers both ……… and professional qualifications
2 They all have to study French because it’s on the ………
3 Primary education is ………for all children from 6 to 11 years old
4 ……… school is a school for young people between the ages of 16 and 18
5 We found this TV program ……… It gives people useful knowledge
6 Computer viruses fall into three broad ………
7 Jane is a ……… girl She always does things in a careful and logical way
8 ……… increased by 5% at state universities this year
9 Despite his disability, he tried his best to get a Postgraduate ……… in education
10 GCSE is a British ……… taken by students in England and Wales and some other
countries, usually around the age of 16
II Underline the appropriate preposition.
In Britain it is compulsory (1 from/for) children to attend school (2 to/between) the age of five and sixteen The school year is usually divided (3 to/into) three terms Each term is about 13 weeks, and each week pupils study about ten subjects (4 In/At) the end of the school year they take an exam (5 on/in) each subject
Under the old system, children received their primary education (6 to/at) an infant school and then a junior school, or a primary school that combines the two (7 to/at) eleven they had to sit (8 to/for) the eleven plus examination which consisted (9 on/of) tests in English, Arithmetic and intelligence tests Those (10 to/ with) the highest marks (about 20% of the children) were allowed to go to grammar school The others were sent (11 from/ to) technical schools
III Choose the best answer:
1 Education in England is divided………primary, secondary, further and higher education
2 ……….the end of the school year, students take an exam in each subject
3 Children are required to be in full-time education…… the ages of 5 and 16
4 In Britain it is………for children to attend school between the ages of five and sixteen
5 This school has the highest……standards in the area
1 Compulsory educational methodical academic curriculum
Certificate tuition categories examination secondary
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7 English students usually……their GCSEs at the age of sixteen
8 By the age of twenty-five he had………his ambition of becoming a pianist
9 You can study a lot of interesting…….such as Design & Technology, Architecture, Psychology, and Politics at this university
10 The academic year in England runs from September to July and is divided in three………
IV Choose the best answer:
1 If it……….tomorrow, I will not have to water the garden
2 Had I known his address, I ………… before
A would write B have written C had written D would have written
3 Supposing I ……….to agree to your request, how do you think the other students would feel?
4 ……….already busy in August, I would gladly accept your invitation
5 If she……….rich, she would travel around the world
6 I would appreciate it………what I have told you a secret
A you can keep B that you kept C you will keep D if you kept
7 George wouldn’t have met Mary… to his brother’s graduation party
A if he has not gone B if he should not have gone C hadn’t he gone D had he not gone
8 If you had taken my advice, you…….in such difficulties now
9 The minister has a talent for talking to ordinary people as if they……….her equals
10 If it………more humid in the desert of the Southwest, the hot temperatures would be unbearable
11 If he hadn’t shown such a blatant disregard for company regulations by smoking while on duty, he……
C wouldn’t have dismissed D wouldn’t have been dismissed
12 He behaved as if nothing……
A has happened B would happen C had happened D was happening
13 …… you at he station if you’d told me you were coming today
14 If only he…….us the truth in the first place, things wouldn’t have gone so wrong
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