Question 2
Read the passage below about school in Japan. Twenty words are missing. Figure out what they are and add them to the sentences. Use the v symbol to show where each missing word belongs. Then write each missing word above the sentence.
Hint: Every sentence has at least one missing word.
How would like to go to school on Saturdays? (1.) If you lived in the of Japan, that’s just where you’d be each Saturday morning. (2.) I have a who lives in Japan. (3.) Yuichi explained that attend classes five and one-half a week. The day is on Saturday. (4.) I was also surprised to that the Japanese school is one of the longest in the world–over 240 days. (5.) It begins in the of April. While we have over two months off each, students in Japan get their in late July and August. (6.) School then again in fall and ends in March. (7.) The people of believe that a good is very important. (8.) Children are required to attend school from the age of six to the of fifteen. (9.) They have elementary and middle just like we do. (10.) Then most go on to school for another three years. (11.) Yuichi says that students work very because the standards are so high. (12.) He and some of his friends even extra classes after school. (13.) They all want to get into a good someday.
How would you like to go to school on Saturdays? If you lived in the country of Japan, that’s just where you’d be each Saturday morning. I have a friend who lives in Japan. Yuichi explained that students attend classes five and one-half days a week. The half day is on Saturday. I was also surprised to learn that the Japanese school year is one of the longest in the world—over 240 days. It begins in the month of April. While we have over two months off each summer, students in Japan get their vacation in late July and August. School then begins again in fall and ends in March. The people of Japan believe that a good education is very important. Children are required to attend school from the age of six to the age of fifteen. They have elementary and middle schools just like we do. Then most students go on to high school for another three years. Yuichi says that students work very hard because the standards are so high. He and some of his friends even take extra classes after school. They all want to get into a good college someday.
