How had things got better by 1900? What was the big problem for most people three centuries ago? What does she want the students to do with their chance to choose?

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2. Read the following passage then answer the questions. (10 points)
Dr Bell: Now, I know that all of you in Year 10 are thinking beyond this year to the futre. Ama
Dr Kate Rossi.
Dr Rossi: Thank you, and hello. Well, deciding the right wway ahead can be very difficult and
stressful - especially for your generation. Why? Because there have never been so many choices
to make before.
But let's start with the opposite- a world without choices. Think back 300 years. If you had all
been born in 1700, very few of you would have had any cducation. At 16, nearly all of you would
have been hard at work at home or on the land, You would probably have had very few choices:
your lives would simply have followed your parents'.
What if you had been born in 1900 instead? Generally speaking, you would have had more
choices and chances by then, You would have been able to travel- though only by train: cars
were for the rich and planes were for the very brave. Several years of school would have given
you more possibilities - although you would probably have left at 13. There would have been
more goods to buy in the shops, but not a TV or a computer: these and other things did not exist.
Lire would have been limited in another way, too: there would have been far fewer career
opportunities. Could you have become a TV technician or a computer programmer or a shopping
centre manager? No, because these and thousands of other jobs had not yet been invented.
And so back to today. Yes, it's harder to choose than ever before, but it's wonderful that you have
the chance. So think carefully and choose responsibiy. You only have one life: use it well.
A. Read and answer the questions.
1. How had things got better by 1900?
2. What was the big problem for most people three centuries ago?
......
3. What does she want the students to do with their chance to choose?
Transcribed Image Text:2. Read the following passage then answer the questions. (10 points) Dr Bell: Now, I know that all of you in Year 10 are thinking beyond this year to the futre. Ama Dr Kate Rossi. Dr Rossi: Thank you, and hello. Well, deciding the right wway ahead can be very difficult and stressful - especially for your generation. Why? Because there have never been so many choices to make before. But let's start with the opposite- a world without choices. Think back 300 years. If you had all been born in 1700, very few of you would have had any cducation. At 16, nearly all of you would have been hard at work at home or on the land, You would probably have had very few choices: your lives would simply have followed your parents'. What if you had been born in 1900 instead? Generally speaking, you would have had more choices and chances by then, You would have been able to travel- though only by train: cars were for the rich and planes were for the very brave. Several years of school would have given you more possibilities - although you would probably have left at 13. There would have been more goods to buy in the shops, but not a TV or a computer: these and other things did not exist. Lire would have been limited in another way, too: there would have been far fewer career opportunities. Could you have become a TV technician or a computer programmer or a shopping centre manager? No, because these and thousands of other jobs had not yet been invented. And so back to today. Yes, it's harder to choose than ever before, but it's wonderful that you have the chance. So think carefully and choose responsibiy. You only have one life: use it well. A. Read and answer the questions. 1. How had things got better by 1900? 2. What was the big problem for most people three centuries ago? ...... 3. What does she want the students to do with their chance to choose?
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