Jo works at a bush school. There are simply classrooms 【小题1】 roofs are made of grass. No electricity or water is available there. It takes the students about two hours 【小题2】 (get) to school. Jo hopes to make some difference 【小题3】 the boy’s lives by teaching them. The other day, Jo and another teacher Jenny visited Tombe’s home. When they arrived at the village, Tombe’s mother 【小题4】 (work) in her garden. She immediately started crying “ieee ieee”. Tombe’s father led them to his house, 【小题5】 low bamboo hut with grass 【小题6】 (stick) out of the roof. 【小题7】 they ate were corn, greens and sweet 【小题8】 (potato). That night Jo and Jenny slept on a 【小题9】 (new) made platform. They left the village the next morning, feeling so 【小题10】 (privilege) to have spent a day with the boy’s family.

Different background shouldn’t mean less education. Fifty years ago, in a primary school classroom, two boys aged 11 took an examination called the 11-plus, 【小题1】would make decisions about the rest of their lives. Paul passed and went to a “grammar school”. Baz failed the examination and went to a “secondary modern school”. They did not see each other again for years.

Many grammar schools 【小题2】(establish) hundreds of years ago to teach the Latin language to children who were not from rich families. They encouraged students to study 【小题3】they were 18 and then to go to university. Secondary modern school students left at 16, usually with fewer qualifications than grammar school students. Baz says the secondary modern school had 【小题4】(few)resources and the quality of teaching was not as good.

Things have changed. In the 1960s and the 1970s “comprehensive schools” were created. Today, 90 percent children aged 11 to 16 from the same area to the same school without 【小题5】(take) any entry examination.

The British often disagrees about the best way 【小题6】(educate) their children. Many people say that comprehensive schools help more children to succeed because they provide everybody 【小题7】similar opportunities in a fairer way. Another view, though, is that more intelligent children, especially 【小题8】from poor homes are better supported at grammar schools. Now, the government plans to open new grammar schools 【小题9】almost two million children will go to the same type of school that Paul attended.

And Paul and Baz? Aged 60, they met again and compared 【小题10】had happened to them. After university, Paul qualified as a teacher. Baz went to work in a factory at 16 and later became an engineer. In fact, Baz had a much higher salary than Paul--so perhaps life is fair after all.

A Thanksgiving Day story in the newspaper told of a school teacher who asked her class to draw a picture of something 【小题1】 they were thankful for. She 【小题2】 (think) over what these children were actually thankful for. And she knew that most of them would draw pictures of turkeys or tables full 【小题3】 food. The teacher was taken back with the picture Douglas handed in — a small childishly hand!

She remembered that 【小题7】 (frequent) at break she had taken Douglas, 【小题8】small lonely child, by the hand. She often did that with the 【小题9】 (child). But it meant so much to Douglas. Perhaps this was everyone’s Thanks-giving, not for the material things 【小题10】 (give) to us but for the chance to give something to others.