. Some (2)___ parents even employ private tutors for their three-year olds. Hot housing becomes a growing (3) in British education. It is also a (4) of the state system these days. Whereas children used to start formal education at (5) ? some now start at four and increasing members of state pupils are taking GCSEs (6)___ they reach secondary school. Dr. Ryne, a 71-year-old founder (7)that the system is the right one. “When a child is young, their brains are like (8)___they absorb everything you give them”, he says. By the time they are in their late teens, their ability to learn (9)___. So why is it wrong to give children, who have a passion for learning extra education when they are ready for it?
Dr. Ryne calls his pupils the OAPs (old age pensioners) of the academic world. He says: “As a plant in a hothouse gets intense (10)___ so children need extra training at a young age”.

A B C D
1 evaluate survive appreciate dislike
2 intelligent sympathetic well-off considerate
3 custom trend necessity chance
4 mark privilege habit phenomenon
5 five six seven eight
6 before after when then
7 likes believes speaks talks
8 earth trees sponges pots
9 is lessening lessens lessened has lessened
10 heat hot warm humidity