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Part 4: Read the passage and fill in each blank with a suitable word.
Academic Overdrive
Student life is becoming increasingly difficult. Not only are students expected to perform and compete within the class, but also to (1)___ time and energy to extra-curricular activities as well as struggle with an increasing load of homework. The push to get into the top universities has caused many overachieving students to (2)___ on heavier workloads and more challenging classes.
This push, however, doesn't end once students reach (3)___ . In fact, when they reach the top places they have worked so hard to get into, many students are forced to work even harder than they did in high school. Once in the top universities, the (4)___ is on to secure a place in the top graduate school. But it doesn't end there. Once students have graduated with the best results, they find that they must continue to overextend themselves in order to secure the top (5)___ in their particular field. Such is the emphasis on academic success.
There are many who claim that this entire system is wrong because it puts too much (6)___ on measuring achievement and not enough on true learning. This in turn has inevitable (7)___ on the students themselves. In such a high-pressure learning environment, those that find the pressure overwhelming have nowhere to turn. In an academic world (8)___ only by academic success, many students begin to feel a low sense of worth, yet they fear to turn to anyone for help as this would be perceived as a signal of failure, an (9)___ to cope with that which other students appear to have no problem. This can be particularly hard for foreign students as they find themselves isolated (10)___ familiar cultural or family ties in their new environment and thus they concentrate solely on their work. Perhaps the main thing to remember is that although it is important to study hard, school life should also be fun.
Academic Overdrive
Student life is becoming increasingly difficult. Not only are students expected to perform and compete within the class, but also to (1)___ time and energy to extra-curricular activities as well as struggle with an increasing load of homework. The push to get into the top universities has caused many overachieving students to (2)___ on heavier workloads and more challenging classes.
This push, however, doesn't end once students reach (3)___ . In fact, when they reach the top places they have worked so hard to get into, many students are forced to work even harder than they did in high school. Once in the top universities, the (4)___ is on to secure a place in the top graduate school. But it doesn't end there. Once students have graduated with the best results, they find that they must continue to overextend themselves in order to secure the top (5)___ in their particular field. Such is the emphasis on academic success.
There are many who claim that this entire system is wrong because it puts too much (6)___ on measuring achievement and not enough on true learning. This in turn has inevitable (7)___ on the students themselves. In such a high-pressure learning environment, those that find the pressure overwhelming have nowhere to turn. In an academic world (8)___ only by academic success, many students begin to feel a low sense of worth, yet they fear to turn to anyone for help as this would be perceived as a signal of failure, an (9)___ to cope with that which other students appear to have no problem. This can be particularly hard for foreign students as they find themselves isolated (10)___ familiar cultural or family ties in their new environment and thus they concentrate solely on their work. Perhaps the main thing to remember is that although it is important to study hard, school life should also be fun.
