VOCABULARY QUIZ 4 (F&G)
Name..................................................

Part A.  Recognition (1 each = 15 points)
Write the number of the word next to the correct definition.

1. follow
2. finish	__ look quickly
3. freeze	__ move behind in the same direction
4. glance
5. grill	__ cook over fire
6. guard	__ complete
7. frighten

1. fiance
2. fuel	__ music or plays for many to enjoy
3. flesh		
4. festival	__ high body temperature
5. fiction	__ coloured cloth for a country
6. flag			 
7. fever	__  wood, oil, gas, coal, etc.

1. guilty
2. fit	__ amusing
3. funny	__ wrong, at fault
4. furious	__ full of thanks
5. glad	__ healthy, exercised
6. grateful
7. foolish

1. fiction
2. fork	__ you wear it on your hand 
3. ferry			
4. glove	__ place for an exhibition
5. ground	__ you eat with it
6. gallery

Part B. Cloze (1 each = 10 points)

Choose from these words to complete the passage:

grocer	government	famous
figures	fortunately	fortnight
finally	foreigners	goals	
farmer	fond	group	
	



What Makes People Intelligent? 

Who are the best students in Canada?   Last year, the Canadian (1).......................... made a study of  students in secondary schools and I read about the findings of the study in a Canadian newspaper about a (2)..................................ago.   You might expect that the best students are sons and daughters of rich white engineers, doctors or lawyers.  Not so.  Surprisingly, many of the top students in Canada are Asian and come from families that don't have a lot of money or education.   During the last thirty years, a lot of people from Hong Kong, Vietnam, India, Pakistan and other Asian countries have come to Canada to live, and their children have done extremely well in Canadian schools--in many cases better than white children, and better than blacks as well.  So in today's Canada it is often true that a child whose grandfather was a simple (3).................................. in India or China gets higher marks than a white Canadian child whose parents are rich and highly educated. 
Does this mean that Asians are more clever than European and African people?  Clearly, this cannot be true of every Asian person--some are intelligent and some are not.  But when you consider Asians as a (4).................................., it looks like the answer might be yes.  The (5).................................. in the Canadian study show that 35% of all Asian children in Canada are high level students but only 25% of white Canadian children are at the same high level.  In other words, the study seems to be saying that the average Asian is more intelligent than the average white person.
However, some people don't believe that Asians are born smarter than other people.  They argue that Asians just try harder.  It's true that when  (6).................................. come to a new country, they work hard to be successful.  And everybody in Canada knows that Asians are hard workers--they are (7)..................................  for it.   For example, if you need fruit or vegetables late at night, you can always go to a Chinese or Korean (8)................................. .  Their shops are open 24 hours a day, even during holidays!  These new Asian Canadians have high (9)...............................  for their children, and they encourage their children to study hard.  So maybe this explains why their children do so well in Canadian schools.
Probably, the best way  to explain the high marks in Asian Canadian secondary students is to accept both sides of the argument.  Asian children do well  in school because they are born with a small advantage over the rest of us, and because they get a lot of encouragement  from  their parents.  (10).................................., I should mention another interesting finding in the study:  No matter what the background--Asian, black, or white--girls were found to do better in school, on average, than boys.  So now people are asking the same question about girls:  Are they born smarter or do they just try harder?

---based on an article in The Globe and Mail, Feb. 18, 1995