WE HAVE BEEN FRIENDS FOR YEARS. IT IS QUITE EASY TO SHARE SECRETS BETW...
Câu 32:
We have been friends for years. It is quite easy to share secrets between us.
A. We have been friends so that it is quite easy to share secrets between us.
B. Having been friends for years, we find it quite easy to share secrets between us.
C. Being friends for years, we find it quite easy to share secrets.
D. We find it quite easy to share secrets, being friends for years.
Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to
indicate the correct word or phrase that best fits each of the numbered blanks.
Almost 90 percent of American students below the college level attend public elementary
and secondary schools, which do not charge tuition but rely on local and state taxes for
funding. Traditionally, elementary school includes kindergarten through the eighth grade. In
some places, (33) ________, elementary school ends after the sixth grade, and students
attend middle school, or junior high school, from grades seven through nine. Similarly,
secondary school, or high school, traditionally comprises grades nine through twelve, but in
some places begins (34) ________ the tenth grade.
Most of the students who do not attend public elementary and secondary schools attend
private schools, for which their families pay (35) ________. Four out of five private schools
are run by religious groups. In these schools religious instruction is part of the curriculum,
(36) _________ also includes the traditional academic courses. There is also a small but
growing number of parents who educate their children themselves, a practice known as
home schooling.
The United States does not have a national school system. Nor, with the exception of the
military academies, are there schools run by the federal government. But the government (37)
_______ guidance and funding for federal educational programs in which both public and
private schools take part, and the U.S. Department of Education oversees these programs.