Question

As a student, you must be excited to know something about American school students. In fact, just like in China, in the United States, high school is usually divided into two periods, the first two or three years are called “junior high school” and the other is “senior high school”.

In China, children enjoy free education of nine years, but in the United States, the students enjoy free education(which will be started when they are about 6 years old) until they are 18 years old. As a result of the free education system, American children have little difficulty in going to senior high school.

American high school students can take part in a lot of activities outside of the classroom. The activities are organized by the school, such as joining a music group or a sports team. Certainly, just like us students in China, American students have to work hard in order to get good marks if they want to go to a good university. They take classes in all kinds of subjects all through the high school period. And students with low marks at the end of a school year are still allowed to go on to the next grade.

In American high schools, there is fighting or hurting or other kinds of bad behaviors. So children who want to go to university are often sent to suburban (郊區(qū)的) high schools, where most students want to go to university and the atmosphere (氛圍) is quite different.

1.This passage mainly tells us about ________.

A. education of Chinese middle school

B. education of American high school

C. American free education

D. how to get into universities in America

2.Which of the following statements is NOT true?

A. The time of free education in China is longer than that in America.

B. Those who get good marks can go to a good university.

C. American students can take all kinds of subjects during the high school period.

D. They can be allowed to join the next grade even if they fail the school-year exam.

3.The writer of the passage tells us the truth that ________.

A.the atmosphere in high schools is not good

B. none of the schools in cities are good for learning

C. suburban high schools are good places for learning

D. all the American students want to go to university

Answer 1

1.B

2.A

3.C

【解析】

試題分析：本文主要介紹了美國高中的一些教育制度及美國高中生的一些生活方式。

1. a student, you must be excited to know something about American school students.句意為作為一個(gè)學(xué)生，你一定很想知道一些關(guān)于美國學(xué)生的生活的事吧，可以推斷出該文章是在講美國高中的教育，故選B。

2. China, children enjoy free education of nine years, but in the United States, the students enjoy free education(which will be started when they are about 6 years old) until they are 18 years old. 句意為在中國，孩子們享受九年免費(fèi)義務(wù)教育，但是在美國，學(xué)生享受免費(fèi)教育到他們18歲為止，可以推斷出中國的免費(fèi)教育年限并不比美國的長，故選A。

3. children who want to go to university are often sent to suburban (郊區(qū)的) high schools, where most students want to go to university and the atmosphere (氛圍) is quite different.句意為所以那些想要上大學(xué)的學(xué)生都被送到郊區(qū)的高中，在郊區(qū)的高中，大部分學(xué)生想上大學(xué)，并且那兒的學(xué)習(xí)氛圍和其他高中的是完全不一樣的，故選C。

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