Part 2

For items 7-15 read the article below about an unusual
school. Fill in the gaps (7-15) in the text choosing from the list A – K the
one which fits each gap. Two of the phrases do not belong to the text.

The BRIT school in Croydon, south London, is no ordinary school. You won’t see
whole classes struggling to stay awake in French lessons. You won’t find the
students at this school hanging around the park (7) ______. You’re more likely to find students mixing tracks,
practicing their dance routines or doing voice exercises. Homework could be
anything from writing an episode of a soap (8)
____ to choreographing a dance. (9) ______,
this is a school which kids actually want to go.

There are over 750 rising stars between the ages of 14
and 19 at the BRIT school. Everyone under 16 studies normal GCSEs (10) _____. After 16 you can do
vocational courses and A-levels in media-related subjects (11) ______. As it’s the UK’s non-fee paying entertainment
school, competition for places is tough.

The children have summer holidays like other kids,
but, (12) ______, the summer is
busier than ever. Each year, hundreds of teenagers, sponsored by Sky
Television, follow a three-day residential course at the school, and some of
these may join the school as full-time students (13) ______. Walk into the school on a typical day in the summer and
you will find an astonishing range of activities going on. There may be the
sound of bongos coming from the World Music class, (14) ______ or a group of students gathered in a recording studio.
Everywhere you look, (15) ______ –
why couldn’t school always be like this.

 

A.  
a talk show
going on in the TV studio

B.  
after the
holidays

C.  
along with
performing art qualifications

D.  
you find
fascination and concentration

E.   
for the school

F.   
hard as it may
be to believe

G.  
like film
production

H.  
making it in the
pop world

I.      
or editing a pop
video

J.     
told off by
their teachers

K.  
when they should
be in class