To do well at school, college or university you usually need to do well in exams. “All students hate exams” may be a generalization, but it is fairly true one. Certainly, all of the students I’ve known disliked doing exams. None of them thought that the exam system was fair. To do well in an exam you simply had to be able to predict the questions which would be asked. This was the case as regards to students in my class at college. Both of them were exceptionally bright, but in the final year “exam” neither of them got an A grade. In fact, they both got Cs. The exam had tested us on questions which had come up the previous year. They had both assumed that the same questions wouldn’t come up again, and hadn’t prepared for them.

The Great Barrier Reef is the earth’s largest reef system. At a length of over 2,500 km it is the (26) living structure. You can even see it from space. However, the reef is in danger of dying. Because of global (27) , the temperature in the atmosphere keeps rising. This also affects the water temperature. When the oceans get too warm the colourful reefs (28) grey and die. The reef is also dying from pollution caused by factories on the Australian and Indonesian coasts.
It’s a pity that we don’t (29) the environment the ways the Aborigines did thousands of years ago. They respected nature, the animals and plants around them. They never killed more animals than they could eat. (30) , when Europeans arrived in Australia they destroyed a lot of things that the Aborigines valued.