Seven percent of British school children go to private schools called independent schools. There are 2,400 independent schools and they have been growing in number and popularity since the mid-1980s.
Parents pay for these schools, and fees vary from about ￡250 a term for a private nursery to ￡3,000 a term or more for a secondary boarding school(pupils board, i.e. live at the school). Some independent schools are called prep schools because they prepare the children for the Common Entrance Exam which they take at the age of 13. This exam is for entry into the best schools.
The most famous schools are called "public schools" and they have a long history and tradition. It is often necessary to put your child’s name on a waiting list at birth to be sure he or she gets a place. Children of wealthy or aristocratic families often go to the same public school as their parents and their grandparents. Eton is the best known of these schools.
The majo
A. religious schools
B. boarding schools
C. secondary schools
D. private schools
Seven percent of British school children go to private schools called independent schools. There are 2,400 independent schools and they have been growing in number and popularity since the mid-1980s.
Parents pay for these schools, and fees vary from about ￡250 a term for a private nursery to ￡3,000 a term or more for a secondary boarding school(pupils board, i.e. live at the school). Some independent schools are called prep schools because they prepare the children for the Common Entrance Exam which they take at the age of 13. This exam is for entry into the best schools.
The most famous schools are called "public schools" and they have a long history and tradition. It is often necessary to put your child’s name on a waiting list at birth to be sure he or she gets a place. Children of wealthy or aristocratic families often go to the same public school as their parents and their grandparents. Eton is the best known of these schools.
The majo
A. Younger.
B. Major.
C. Relating to a particular racial, national group.
D. Religious.
Many critics of our British "public school" consider that far more stress is placed upon achievements in athletics than in the academic sphere, and, in particular, complain against games being compulsory. We are told that it is (76) to compel boys with no athletic (77) to spend hours of misery on a cricket or football field, when, if (78) to themselves, they would occupy their time far more usefully and enjoyably in some (79) hobby. The (80) to this argument (81) the facile assumption that every non-athlete has some profitable hobby. This is not true; (82) even if it were, model engineering or stamp-collecting is no substitute for being out in the fresh air, exercising the muscles and having (83) with other human beings.
(84) the youthful idolizing of athletes, which tends to upset a boy’s (85) of values and may do (86) harm to the objects of this hero-worship
A. live
B. left
C. fight
D. leaving
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