from a list of choices given in a word bank following the passage. Read the passage through carefully before making your choices. Each choice in the bank is identified by a letter. Please mark the corresponding letter for each item on Answer Sheet 2 with a single line through the centre. You may not use any of the words in the My co-teacher and I met in the parking lot before school and stared into my car trunk at the costumes and props we had gathered over the weekend. We were giddy with excitement and nervous because neither of us had__26__anything like this before. The co-teacher, Alice, had found a book called Teaching Content Outrageously by Stanley Pogrow, which explained how secondary classrooms can incorporate drama into any content to__27__students in learning—incorporating the element of surprise, for example, or developing role-play or simulation experiences to teach content and standards. The book inspired us to change how we taught our seventh-grade language-arts students in a high-poverty school that__28__with test scores, especially reading and math. The sense of urgency in the building was__29__,and the pressure on teachers to increase student achievement was often__30__. The district required us to teach a curriculum__31__aligned with a 15-year-old reading textbook containing outdated articles about Ricky Martin, ice fishing, and cartography in a(n)__32__that it was both condescending and__33__. But district personnel insisted that teachers use the textbook, citing evidence that it brought up test scores. The__34__curriculum, we decided, would never be enough to encourage our students to love reading and writing. Therefore, Alice and I decided to take the__35__and apply Pogrow’s advice.