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30. In 1852 Massachusetts passed a lawrequiredallchildrenfrom four toA(requiring) Beighteen yearsof age to attendschool.C DIII. READINGA. Fill in each blank space with one appropriate word from the box.advantage qualifications hopefully effective training practicaleradicated worth while unemployment opportunities breakAround the age of sixteen, you must make one of the biggest decisions of your life. Do I stay on at schooland (31) hopefully go on to university later? Do I leave and start work or begin a (32) training course? Thedecision is yours, but it may be (33) worth remembering two things: there is more (34) unemployment amongwho haven't been to university, and people who have the right skills will have a big (35) advantage in thecompetition for jobs. If you decide to go straight into a job, there are many (36)opportunitiesfor training. Getting(37) qualifications will help you to get on more quickly in many careers, and evening classes allow you to learn(38)whileyou earn. Starting work and taking a (39)breakto study when you are older is another possibility. Thisway, you can save up money for your student days, as well as getting (40)practicalwork experience.B. Read the passage carefully, then choose the correct answers.In the primary school, a child is in a comparatively simple setting and most of the time forms a relationshipwith one familiar teacher. On entering secondary school, a new world opens up and frequently it is a much moredifficult world. The pupil soon learns to be less free in the way he speaks to teachers and even to his fellow pupils.He begins to lose gradually the free and easy ways of the primary school, for he senses the need for a morecautious approach in the secondary school where there are older pupils, Secondary staff and pupils suffer from thepressures of academic work and seem to have less time to stop and talk. Teachers with specialist roles may seehundreds of children in a week, and a pupil may be able to form relationships with very few of the staff. He has todecide which adults are approachable; good schools will make clear to every young person from the first yearwhat guidance and personal help is available - but whether the reality of life in the institution actually encouragesrequests for help is another matter.Adults often forget what a confusing picture school can offer to a child. He sees a great deal of movement, agreat number of people – often rather frightening-looking people - and realizes that an increasing number ofchoices and decisions have to be made. As he progresses through the school the confusion may become less but thechoices and decisions required will increase. The school will rightly expect the pupil to take the first steps to obtainthe help he needs, for this is the pattern of adult life for which he has to be prepared, but all the time theopportunities for personal and group advice must be presented in a way which makes them easy to understand andwithin easy reach of pupils.