Exercise-1

Vocabulary 1

Write the missing words in the blanks. Choose from these words.

afford	discipline	egalitarian	identical
primary	rural	statistic	status

1.       In some countries, a university degree is a sign of_____________ . In other countries it's extremely usual.

2.      Many students in the United States cannot ________________  to go to private universities because they are so expensive.

3.       John's seven-year-old son attends  ____________ school.

4.       In many  ____________________ areas, children don't go to high school because they have to help with the farm work.

5.      In many schools in the United States, teachers spend more time dealing with ____________ problems than they do teaching.

6.      An interesting  _________________ shows that 88  percent of all students in Japan finish high school.

7.    In universities in the United States, students choose a lot of elective classes, so no two courses of study are  _________________________.

8.    While public schools in the United States are supposedly  ________________, studies show that schools in poor areas are actually much worse than schools in rich areas.