For most of us, success in school has very little to do with actual learning. The most important thing you have to master is how to play the grade games.       you think out your own strategies for getting high marks, everything opens up to you. You may be       to a well-known college or win scholarship, not to mention gaining the admiration of your teachers and parents.
But not everyone does well in tests. At times, it can almost turn into a funny game of hit and      . Some students haven't mastered the       of test taking, and some fear under pressure or need more time or another way to       what they know. Being a school       means learning things out of the school system. Then you have to work things to your      . Lots of students are already doing it without       it. Getting high grades also       on knowing each teacher's character. For example, I once had to take       , so one day in        classes I talked to the teacher I had wanted to.  I told him how I'd heard what a really good teacher he was, and how disappointed I was that I'd have to graduate        having been in his class.  I lied. It      . (I had counted on the chemistry teacher being human, and he accepted.) I wasn't proud of myself for what I did. But I considered it       of the grade game we're pushed into          to aim at going to the best schools.

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A．speak B．tell C．talk D．express

A．master B．house C．failure D．success

A．points B．ideas C．advantage D．freedom

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