. Some (2)___ parents even employ private tutors for their three-year olds. Hot housing becomes a growing (3) in British education. It is also a (4) of the state system these days. Whereas children used to start formal education at (5) ? some now start at four and increasing members of state pupils are taking GCSEs (6)___ they reach secondary school. Dr. Ryne, a 71-year-old founder (7)that the system is the right one. “When a child is young, their brains are like (8)___they absorb everything you give them”, he says. By the time they are in their late teens, their ability to learn (9)___. So why is it wrong to give children, who have a passion for learning extra education when they are ready for it?
Dr. Ryne calls his pupils the OAPs (old age pensioners) of the academic world. He says: “As a plant in a hothouse gets intense (10)___ so children need extra training at a young age”.
A B C D
1 evaluate survive appreciate dislike
2 intelligent sympathetic well-off considerate
3 custom trend necessity chance
4 mark privilege habit phenomenon
5 five six seven eight
6 before after when then
7 likes believes speaks talks
8 earth trees sponges pots
9 is lessening lessens lessened has lessened
10 heat hot warm humidity
2. Always a punctual woman, she (comes) downstairs as the front door (is being opened) for Charles.
3. Some kind of public demonstration (is being planned) to take place at the airport tonight.
4. The flight (had not been announced) yet. It (would not be announced) for another half-hour, at least.
5. The message, as Tanya (was dictating) it, (was being typed) by a girl clerk in New York.
6. She could tell by the inclination of his head that he (had been listening) intently to everything that (had been said).
7. It (is) an old house that (is divided) into flats.
8. Julia can’t know what (is being said) about her, and someone must tell her.
9. Each apartment was usually ( shared) by two or three girls. They (were known) as stewardess’ nests.
10. Inez (occupied) a chair in the room’s centre to which she (had been/was guided) on arrival.
11. He ( saw) that the doors of Trans America Flight Two (had not been closed) yet, and a few remaining passengers were still ( checking) in.
2. I havd already (bought) a can of Coke, when my mum (was coming up).
3. The whole day yesterday we (were trying) to find common features in all the cases.
4. Mrs. Smith (risked) her life to save the children in the storm.
5. While the actor (was reciting) the poem, the audience (held) their breath.
6. I (noticed) that he (had been reading) the same page for 25 minutes.
7. The students (had made) all the arrangements for the party by 3 yesterday.
8. The kids (were laughing) loudly, when they (were watching) cartoons on TV.
9. Where were you (going), when Betty (met) you?
10. I (was) a member of a tennis club in my childhood.
11. Last year Danny often (played) volleyball with his friends.
12. Patrick (found) all the necessary information in the book yesterday.
13. Last September Greg (had lived) in Switzerland for seven years.
14. Lady Gaga (rose) to fame after she (had sung) a couple of hits.
15. At that moment I (saw) that a minibus had already (left).
16. Ann (felt) exhausted because she (had been doing) the gardening the whole day.
17. This time yesterday Monica (was browsing) the Internet.
18. We .. (had been waiting) at the phone till Vic . (called) to give the final answer.
19. In 2003 Gina (gave birth) to cute twin girls.
20. The professor . (began) his fundamental research 20 years ago.