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Exercise 6. a) Match the words to get word combinations.
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Exercise 6. a) Match the words to get word combinations.
| 1. part-time | a. studies |
| 2. elementary | b. degree |
| 3. equal | c. loans |
| 4. master’s | d. school |
| 5. measure | e. fee |
| 6. natural | f. opportunity |
| 7. tuition | g. job |
| 8. federal | h. aptitudes |
| 9. complete | i. sciences |
b) Fill in the gaps using the words from a) in the correct form and answer the questions.
1. What was the atmosphere like when you studied at the _____ school?
2. Do you pay _____ fees for your education at the university?
3. How can _____ be measured?
4. Does our state provide any _____ loans for education?
5. Do any of your groupmates take on _____ jobs?
6. Do young people in our country have _____ opportunity to choose the university they like?
7. Does your department provide master’s _____?
8. What year will you complete your _____ at the university?
9. What natural _____ do you study at the university?
Exercise 7. Are the sentences True or False?
1. Standard of living doesn’t depend on education.
2. There is no difference between laws and standards of education in different states of America.
3. The number of young people who get full secondary education is high.
4. Pupils are not allowed to choose subjects.
5. There are no private schools in the USA.
6. Higher education is competitive and selective.
7. It is enough to have a high school diploma to be admitted to a college or a university.
8. Not all students complete full four-year courses.
9. Education at American universities is free of charge.
10. Harvard University is the oldest in the USA.
Exercise 8. Answer the questions using the information from the text.
1. At what age is education compulsory?
2. What level of education can students choose subjects at?
3. What do high school graduates need to enter: a college or a university?
4. What percentage of bachelor degree students complete full four-year course? Why?
5. Why do the university students take on part-time jobs?
6. What is the most important principle of education at elementary school? at high school? at a university?
Exercise 9. Match the phrases to the prepositions.
| 1. to be good | a. in |
| 2. to be afraid | b. on |
| 3. to be worried | c. at |
| 4. to be terrible | d. about |
| 5. to be interested | e. of |
| 6. to be fond | f. at |
| 7. to be keen | g. of |
b) Complete the sentences with an adjective and preposition so that they mean the same as the sentence above.
1. At school, Tom Cruise did well at sports.
At school, Tom Cruise was good at sports.
2. Other kids laughed at Bill Gates because his only interest was computers.
Other kids laughed at Bill Gates because he was only_____ computers.
3. Kurt Cobain didn't like school, but he really liked his art teacher.
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Kurt Cobain didn’t like school but he was_____ his art teacher.
4. At his school, Tiger Woods was frightened by the other boys.
At his school, Tiger Woods was _____ the other boys.
5. Winston Churchill hated school, but he loved reading.
Winston Churchill hated school, but he was very_____ reading.
Exercise 10. Complete the text with the right form of the verbs (active or passive).
Degree-granting institutions in the United States _____ (call) colleges, institutes or universities. As a general rule, colleges _____ (be) smaller and usually _____ (offer) only undergraduate degrees, while a university also _____ (offer) graduate degrees and may include several colleges. Most of them are 4-year institutions. The words " school, " " college, " and " university" often _____ (use) interchangeably. An institute usually _____ (specialize) in degree programs in a group of closely related subject areas, for example, institutes of technology, institutes of fashion, institutes of art and design, and so on. Institutes may also be part of universities. Within each college or university schools _____ (find), such as the school of arts and sciences or the school of business. Each school is responsible for the degree programs offered by the college or university in that area of study.
Exercise 11. Complete the text with the right form of the verbs (active or passive).
Community colleges in the USA _____ (provide) two-year associate degree programs, as well as excellent technical and vocational programs. They ______ (call) the associate of arts (A. A. ) or associate of science (A. S. ) degrees. As the name _____ (suggest), community colleges _____ (be) community-based institutions with close links to secondary schools, community groups, and employers, and many U. S. students _____ (live) close to campus with their families. Community colleges can be public or private institutions and sometimes _____ (call) junior colleges or two-year colleges. A growing number of international students _____ (choose) to study at community colleges. Tuition costs _____ (be) often lower at two-year than at four-year institutions and many _____ (have) agreements to allow students to move easily into the third year of a bachelor's degree at the local state university.
Exercise 12. a) Read the following comments made by students and decide whether each is for or against taking exams. Complete the sentences with the right form of the verbs.
1. Exams _____ (make) everyone try to get the best marks they can.
2. I _____ (feel) well during the exam, so I _____ (not do) well.
3. The boy sitting next to me _____ (study) at all, but he _____ (copy) my answers and _____ (pass) the exam.
4. I _____ (not think) I’d bother studying if we didn’t have exams.
5. I _____ (write) very slowly, so I hardly ever have enough time to finish an exam.
6. I use my exam grades to find out whether or not I _____ (improve) in a subject.
7. I think exams _____ (be) the quickest way of testing students.
8. I _____(study) for weeks before my last exam, but on the day itself I was so nervous that I couldn’t remember a thing.
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