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1. 1.

   Complete the sentences with appropriate words from the text.

   1. At the school described in the article, the first day of the school week often not a ____________________.
   2. Teaching different subjects to kids of different ages at the same time was a ____________________ for the teacher.
   3. Between Googling and finding out things for themselves on field trips, the students preferred ____________________.
   4. The circus children, to whom tigers and lions were like family members, were not ____________________ by these animals in the zoo.
   5. The circus had people of over twenty different countries, so it was a miniature ____________________.
2. 2.

   Why couldn't the circus children go to a regular school?

3. 3.

   "Every week was a surprise!" How was every week a surprise?

4. 4.

   How did the teacher use the field trips to educate the children?

5. 5.

   What lessons did the children learn by living with the animals?

6. 6.

   "We stood next to those tall trees and felt like Jack...".

   1. Who are "we" in this sentence? Where are they?
   2. Which other places did they go to and What did they learn from there?
   3. Who is the Jack being referred to here and why?