Question VII: Read and choose the best answer.

Parents send their children to school to prepare for the time when they grow up. Children learn their native language so that they will be able to communicate fluently with other people around them. Moreover, they can preserve the valuable culture and literature of their country. They learn foreign languages in order to benefit from other countries’ heritage. The more foreign languages they learn, the more benefits they get. Children also learn math to calculate, geography to know about nature, and history to know about human beings and historical events. Nearly everything they study at school has some practical uses in their life.

1. Parents send their children to school to ________.

A. play better           B. learn English

C. prepare for their future           D. make them grow up

2. Why do children have to learn their native language?

A. To learn foreign languages.           B. To communicate fluently with other people around them.

C. To benefit from foreign countries’ heritage.

D. To know about nature.

3.  According to the passage, children learn history to know about ______.

A.  people and historical events B.  practical uses in life

C.  events of the history D.  the mankind

4.  How many school subjects are mentioned in the passage?

A.  Five. B. Seven. C.  Six. D. Four.

5.  Most of the things children learn at school ________.

A.  are useless   B. have no use   C. are not necessary D. have some practical uses 

IV. Read the passage and choose the best answer from A, B, C, or D.
Parents send their children to school to prepare for the time when they grow up.
Children learn their native language so that they will be able to communicate
fluently with other people around them. Moreover, they can preserve the valuable
culture and literature of their country. They learn foreign languages in order to
benefit from other countries’ heritage. The more foreign languages they learn, the

more benefits they get. Children also learn math to calculate, geography to know
about nature, and history to know about human beings and historical events.
Nearly everything they study at school has some practical uses in their life.
1. Parents send their children to school to ________.
A. play better B. learn English C. prepare for their future D. make
them grow up
2. Why do children have to learn their native language?
A. To learn foreign languages. B. To communicate fluently with other people
around them.
C. To benefit from foreign countries’ heritage. D. To know about nature.
3. According to the passage, children learn history to know about ________.
A. people and historical events B. practical uses in life
C. events of the history D. the mankind
4. How many school subjects are mentioned in the passage?
A. Five. B. Seven. C. Six. D. Four.

Read the passage and complete with the correct prepositions.
We send our children (1)............ school to prepare them (2).......... the time when they will be big and will have to work (3)......... themselves. They learn their own language so that they will be able to tell others clearly what they want and what they know and understand what others tell them. They learn foreign languages (4)......... order to be able to benefit (5) ........ what people other countries have written and said, and in order to make people (7)......... other countries understand what they themselves mean. Nearly everything they study (8)........ school has some practical use (9)............ their life. We go to school (10).......... all to learn how to learn, so that, when we have left school, we can continue to learn.

We send our children (1) school to prepare them (2) the time when they will be big and will have to work (3) themselves. They learn their own language so that they will be able to tell others clearly what they want and they know and understand what others tell them. They learn foreign languages (4) order to be able to benefit (5) what people (6) other countries have written and said, and in order to make people (7) other countries understand what they themselves mean. Nearly everything they study (8) school has some practical use (9) their life. We go to school (10) all to learn how to learn, so that, when we have left school, we can continue to learn.

Read the passage carefully and choose the correct answer.

Different relationships  affect teenagers in various ways. Friends impact teenagers almost the same amount as their parents. Teenagers go to their friends for help or to ask questions that they could not ask their parents about. Most of the time their friends give them good advice. In most cases they tell their friends how to dress and act when being around certain people. Love relationships just make it even harder for a teenager to get a good education. Some start to fail in school because they are hanging out with their boyfriend or girlfriend instead of doing their work. Parents have a big influence on teenagers because their children look up to them and the majority of them grow up to act and do things just like their parents did with them. Children who have experienced a family break-up may have lower achievements than children brought up in an intact family. As previously stated, teenagers are affected by many relationships which involve their friends, family, and their love relationships. The relationships affect them so much that most teenagers change their ideas about how they should live their lives in a different way and to change their future goals. They should be influenced to help themselves or to help others.

Question: Teenagers go to their friends in order to_____.

A. impact them in various ways and the same amount

B. ask for help or advice that their parents can’t give them

C. have different relationships that their parents can’t offer

D. ask how to dress when being around certain people

Read the passage carefully and choose the correct answer.

Different relationships  affect teenagers in various ways. Friends impact teenagers almost the same amount as their parents. Teenagers go to their friends for help or to ask questions that they could not ask their parents about. Most of the time their friends give them good advice. In most cases they tell their friends how to dress and act when being around certain people. Love relationships just make it even harder for a teenager to get a good education. Some start to fail in school because they are hanging out with their boyfriend or girlfriend instead of doing their work. Parents have a big influence on teenagers because their children look up to them and the majority of them grow up to act and do things just like their parents did with them. Children who have experienced a family break-up may have lower achievements than children brought up in an intact family. As previously stated, teenagers are affected by many relationships which involve their friends, family, and their love relationships. The relationships affect them so much that most teenagers change their ideas about how they should live their lives in a different way and to change their future goals. They should be influenced to help themselves or to help others.

Question: The main idea of the passage is ________.

A. the effects of love relationships on teenagers’ study

B. the impact of relationships on teenagers’ lives

C. the role of parents in their children’s lives

D. the impact of relationships on adults and teenagers

Read the passage carefully and choose the correct answer.

Different relationships  affect teenagers in various ways. Friends impact teenagers almost the same amount as their parents. Teenagers go to their friends for help or to ask questions that they could not ask their parents about. Most of the time their friends give them good advice. In most cases they tell their friends how to dress and act when being around certain people. Love relationships just make it even harder for a teenager to get a good education. Some start to fail in school because they are hanging out with their boyfriend or girlfriend instead of doing their work. Parents have a big influence on teenagers because their children look up to them and the majority of them grow up to act and do things just like their parents did with them. Children who have experienced a family break-up may have lower achievements than children brought up in an intact family. As previously stated, teenagers are affected by many relationships which involve their friends, family, and their love relationships. The relationships affect them so much that most teenagers change their ideas about how they should live their lives in a different way and to change their future goals. They should be influenced to help themselves or to help others.

Question: Relationships can_______.

A. help others to form relationships

B. help teenagers to decide the future goals in love relationships

C. influence teenagers in many aspects of their lives

D. help teenagers to follow their future goals with their friends and family

Read the passage carefully and choose the correct answer.

Different relationships  affect teenagers in various ways. Friends impact teenagers almost the same amount as their parents. Teenagers go to their friends for help or to ask questions that they could not ask their parents about. Most of the time their friends give them good advice. In most cases they tell their friends how to dress and act when being around certain people. Love relationships just make it even harder for a teenager to get a good education. Some start to fail in school because they are hanging out with their boyfriend or girlfriend instead of doing their work. Parents have a big influence on teenagers because their children look up to them and the majority of them grow up to act and do things just like their parents did with them. Children who have experienced a family break-up may have lower achievements than children brought up in an intact family. As previously stated, teenagers are affected by many relationships which involve their friends, family, and their love relationships. The relationships affect them so much that most teenagers change their ideas about how they should live their lives in a different way and to change their future goals. They should be influenced to help themselves or to help others.

Question: All of the following statements about parents’ influence on teenagers are true EXCEPT that______.

A. achievements of teenagers from a family break-up are always low

B. parents have a great impact on teenagers

C. most teenagers grow up to act and do things just like their parents

D. a family break-up may have a negative effect on teenagers

Read the passage carefully and choose the correct answer.

Different relationships  affect teenagers in various ways. Friends impact teenagers almost the same amount as their parents. Teenagers go to their friends for help or to ask questions that they could not ask their parents about. Most of the time their friends give them good advice. In most cases they tell their friends how to dress and act when being around certain people. Love relationships just make it even harder for a teenager to get a good education. Some start to fail in school because they are hanging out with their boyfriend or girlfriend instead of doing their work. Parents have a big influence on teenagers because their children look up to them and the majority of them grow up to act and do things just like their parents did with them. Children who have experienced a family break-up may have lower achievements than children brought up in an intact family. As previously stated, teenagers are affected by many relationships which involve their friends, family, and their love relationships. The relationships affect them so much that most teenagers change their ideas about how they should live their lives in a different way and to change their future goals. They should be influenced to help themselves or to help others.

Question: Love relationships may make a teenager harder to get a good education because_______.

A. their boyfriend or girlfriend may make them fail in school

B. they tell their boyfriend or girlfriend how to dress or how to act

C. they try to do their work instead of hanging out with their boyfriend or girlfriend

D. they hang out with their boyfriend or girlfriend instead of studying

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 from 31 to 38.

Let children learn to judge their own work. A child learning to talk does not learn by being corrected all the time. If corrected too much, he will stop talking. He notices a thousand times a day the difference between the language he uses and the language those around him use. Bit by bit, he makes the necessary changes to make his language like other people’s. In the same way, children learn all the other things they learn to do without being taught – to talk, run, climb, whistle, ride a bicycle – compare their own performances with those of more skilled people, and slowly make the needed changes. But in school we

never give a child a chance to find out his mistakes for himself, let alone correct them. We do it all for him. We act as if we thought that he would never notice a mistake unless it was pointed out to him, or correct it unless he was made to. Soon he becomes dependent on the teacher. Let him do it himself. Let him work out, with the help of other children if he wants it, what this word says, what the answer is to that problem, whether this is a good way of saying or doing this or not.

If it is a matter of right answers, as it may be in mathematics or science, give him the answer book. Let him correct his own papers. Why should we teachers waste time on such routine work? Our job should be to help the child when he tells us that he can’t find the way to get the right answer. Let’s end all this nonsense of grades, exams, and marks. Let us throw them all out, and let the children learn what all educated persons must someday learn, how to measure their own understanding, how to know what they know or do not know.

Let them get on with this job in the way that seems most sensible to them, with our help as school teachers if they ask for it. The idea that there is a body of knowledge to be learnt at school and used for the rest of one’s life is nonsense in a world as complicated and rapidly changing as ours. Anxious parents and teachers say, “But suppose they fail to learn something essential, something they will need to get on in the world?” Don’t worry! If it is essential, they will go out into the world and learn it.

The author fears that children will grow up into adults who are ___________.

A. too critical of themselves

B. unable to use basic skills

C. too independent of others

D. unable to think for themselves