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The Prime-Minister's Report on EducationDate: 2015-10-07; view: 394. B. Supply the correct form of the verbs given in brackets. A country such as Britain in the 21st century (1) _____________________ (to succeed or to fail) by how it develops its human capital. That means we need education excellence not for the few but for the many. Traditional Britain (2) _______________ (to be) brilliant at educating the top 25% – probably the best in the world. But for decades we (3) ________________ (to tolerate) a situation where others (4) _______________ (to have) average or poor education. Before we came to power, funding per pupil (5) _____________ (to cut). School buildings (6) _______________ (to have) an annual investment of less then £700m. Teacher-training numbers gradually (7) _____________ (to fall). The presence of IT (8) ______________ (to be) patchy. In London alone, 78 schools (9) _______________ (to fail). But since we (10) _________________ (to be) in power, funding per pupil (11) ________________ (to rise) so that by the end of next year it (12) _________________ (to double). IT (13) _______________ (to become) not patchy but prevalent. In London, the number of failing schools (14) ________________ (to halve). This year many schools had more than 70% of pupils getting good GCSEs and A-levels. It is the first time they (15) _________________ (to have) such excellent results. All of this (16) ___________________ (to come) with money and change. Each part of this change (17) ________________ (to oppose), usually on the grounds that it (18) _________________ (to encourage) elitism. Each time the opposition (19) ______________ (to prove) misplaced. Since we (20) _______________ (to be) in power, we (21) __________ (to invest) heavily in educational opportunity and (22) ________________ (to produce) good results. It should be evidence of our good intentions. (From ‘The Guardian', abridged)
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