Read the following passage and mark A, B, C, or D to indicate the correct answer to each of the blanks.

The Gerneral Cerificate of Secondary Education or the GCSE excaminations for short are the standard school-leaver qualifications taken by virually all UK students in the May and June following their 16th birthday. If you come to a UK ___(1)___ school before you ___(2)___ the age of 16, you will study towards GCSE excaminationin up to 12 subjects. Some subjects are compulory, including English and matchematics, and you can select ___(3)___, such as music, drama, geography and history from a series of options. GCSEs provide a good all-round education ___(4)___ you can build ___(5)___ at colleage and eventually at university.