G azərbaycan respublikasi təHSİl naziRLİYİ azərbaycan texniKİ universiteti M. M. QƏNDİLova e. Q. İsmayilova

For Comprehension
Read this newspaper article and answer the questions.
When Mr. Long, the Minister of Education, was asked about the school-leaving age again, at a press conference yesterday, he said that there were still a large number of problems to be considered. One reporter asked what the Government was going to do about children who wanted to go out and earn money at the age of 16. Mr. Long said that he realized many young people wanted to stand on their own two feet early in life, and he thought this was very good. However, he added that he felt young people needed as much education as we could give them: so the Government was seriously considering rising of the school-leaving age sometime in the future.
Questions:

1. 
   Where was Mr. Long yesterday?
   
2. 
   What was he asked about?
   
3. 
   What did he say about ‘a large number of problems’?
   
4. 
   Write down the exact words which one reporter used when he asked Mr. Long about the school-leaving age.
   
5. 
   What did Mr. Long say many young people wanted to do?
   
6. 
   What did he think about this?
   
7. 
   What did he say about young people and education?
   
8. 
   What is the Government doing now?