Selecting Best Choices The paragraph on Page 30 has been taken from the text but includes ten blanks. You are required to select one word or expression for each blank from a list of words in the word bank provided. You may not use any of the words in the word bank more than once. Word Bank A) activity F) guesswork K) pleading B) chance G) habit L) rapacious C) deprived of H) let them succeed M) recently D) direction I) mainly N) rush E) evidence J) period O) strain But is there any need for all that? What's the ____? The labour market is not exactly ____ for young ____ qualified people. Why do we put such intolerable ____ on our young people? What do they want? Between the ages of 13 and 16 a great many children feel less like studying than at any other time in their lives. The ____ of growing up is enough. They need time and space. Often, highly motivated children, whose love of reading has led them to read libraries of books, suddenly stop reading at this age. It doesn’t mean they will stop forever. With any ____, after about 16 or 17, they can grow out of that ____, but under our present system of selection that’s too late. If they took the wrong ____at the age of 14, then they may already be ____ certain options. Parents are often driven to despair at children who, given the chance, spend half the day in bed and the other half getting dressed, but it doesn’t last forever. So why do we choose this period in their lives as the time to ____ or break them?