Gateway A 2 Unit 8 Test. Use Of English

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We did (1) ……………………… project at school and compared the lives of students in our country with students in a school in England. We were surprised at (2) ……………………… results. In England, children start school when they are younger (3) ……………………… in our country. And class sizes are (4) ……………………… there, too. Ours have 25 students, but theirs have more than 30. Our school day is shorter, but they have a (5) ……………………… lunch break – one hour instead of 45 minutes. And we also read a survey on tests. In both countries, girls do better than boys in tests when they are young, but they are about the same when they are (6) ………………………. The survey said not because girls are (7) ……………………… intelligent, but because they have different learning skills. In England, some people think that teenagers should start school (8) ……………………… in the morning because teenagers need more sleep! The English students said that, the (9) ……………………… difficult lesson is maths, and I think that’s true here, too. They also said the (10) ……………………… lesson is ICT and not just because they like playing computer games!
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The correct answer is "the, our" because the word "the" is used to refer to a specific noun, while "our" is a possessive pronoun indicating ownership. Both words are commonly used in English grammar to provide specificity and ownership in a sentence.

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Gateway A 2 Unit 8 Test. Use Of English

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