3 Read the text again and answer the questions.
1 Where does the word 'per cent' come from?
2 Who first used the numbers 0-9?
3 Why do we use percentages?
4 What percentage is 'the whole' equal to?
5 What is the whole in the example with cakes?
6 What do we multiply the fraction by to get the
final percentage?​

School does prepare you for the future. School prepares you for the future because it teaches you how to become an everyday worker. Think of it this way, your boss doesn't want you slacking and not doing your work in a everyday environment. Well thats what school is an everyday environment where you complete assignments and whether you do them is up to you or not. However in a common work place if you don't do your work you end up fired, or in an almost same way you fail the class. Which if you think about it is almost like failing your job.

1. She wrote a very good article after she had studied the problem thoroughly. 2. The train started after he had kissed her tenderly and wished good luck. 3. He rose to fame after he had written the novel “Pickwick Papers”. 4. (НЕПОНЯТНО!_The sun rose  The party  made for the top of the mountain. 5. She learned the poem by heart after She had listened to the record many times. 6. He had spent a few years in the Far East before he settled down in his native town. 7. He had been a widower for a year before he met Mrs. Jones. 8. She fell ill after they had moved to Siberia. 9. We had packed our things before the taxi arrived. 10. After the bell had rung the children ran out of the classroom.