Read the passage mark letter A, B, C or D to indicate the correct word for each of the blanks.
The Gerneral Cerificate of Secondary Education or the GCSE excaminations for short are the standard school-leaver qualifications taken by virually all UK students in the May and June following their 16th birthday. If you come to a UK (23)_______ school before you (24)_______ the age of 16, you will study towards GCSE excaminationin up to 12 subjects. Some subjects are compulory, including English and matchematics, and you can select (25)_____, such as music, drama, geography and history from a series of options. GCSEs provide a good all-round education (26)_______ you can build (27)______ at colleage and eventually at university.
Question 23
A. dependence
B. independence
C. independent
D. independently
