C. Complete each space in the text with a word formed from the word in capitals

Last year I resigned my post as a Head of Department at a large

comprehensive school. After 23 years of teaching, I had simply

had enough of a job which is becoming increasingly

(1)... problematic. As a Departmental Head, I saw at PROBLEM

close hand the effect of the government’s (2)……..….. …..INVOLVE

increased in educational matters; the job is now

ten times more than it was when I started out. (3)………....BUREAU

Not content with loading teachers down

with paperwork, the government has also

imposed standard national tests on pupils as young as six,

a fact which has left many teachers with their (4) ………..ENCHANT

profession. But that side of things is by no means all.

There is also the growing (5)……………………………...AGGRESSIVE

of the pupils, including the girls. There are the frequent

little acts of which teachers have become (6) ……..…........RUDE

(7)……………… almost to stop, now that the right to POWER

discipline pupils has been all but taken from them. There

is the restlessness and sheer (8) ………………………….. BORING

of children brought up on a diet of computer games

and violent videos. Some people dismiss any link

between computer games and a (9) ……………………….REDUCE

in attention span, but few of them are teachers. When I started

out, I used to enjoy teaching history, my chosen discipline,

to (10) ……………… pupils; now I do so every RESPECT

Tuesday evening, teaching local history to pensioners.