Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to choose the word or phrase that best fits each of the numbered blanks.

EDUCATION IN ENGLAND

Every child in Great Britain between the age of five and fifteen must(16)_____school. There (17)______three main types of education institutions: primary (elementary) schools, secondary schools, and universities.

State schools are free, and attendance is compulsory. Morning school begins at nine o’clock and lasts until half past four. School is open five days aweek.

(18) Saturdays and Sundays, there are no lessons. There are holidays at Christmas, Easter and in summer. In London as in all cities, there are two grades of state schools for those(19)_____will go to work at fifteen: primary schools for boys and girls between the ages of five and eleven, and secondary schools for children from eleven to fifteen.

The lessons are reading, writing, the English language, English literature, English history, geography,(20) ,nature study, drawing, painting, singing, woodwork and drill.

Children do not want to read and think because ________