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Overall, we can clearly see the decline in the number of boys, while the
number of girls seems to be a rising trend. The most surprising fact of the
school is that though the number of boys and girls changed, the total number of
school students remained constant.

1. Vocabulary in use
Find the synonyms of the following words from the text.
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portrays discloses escalated precisely tendency stable
2. Reading comprehension

i. Choose the best alternative to complete the following sentences.
a. The number of the students in the school ……………………

i. changed rapidly
ii. changed only in few years

iii. was the same in all years
b. The ratio of the boys and the girls in 2015 was ……………………

i. 6:5
ii. 5:6 CDC

iii. 0.83%
c. The number of girls increased ……………………

i. as much as the number of boys that decreased
ii. less than the decreased number of boys

iii. more than the number of boys that decreased
d. The data presented in the bar chart surprises us because …………………

i. the number of boys decreased every year
ii. the number of girls increased every year

iii. the total ¿ gure of the students did not change
ii. Study the bar chart, and answer these questions.

a. What kinds of data are presented in the above bar diagram?
b. How many girls were studying in 2015?

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