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In her new book, “The Smartest Kids in the World”， Amanda Ripley, an investigative journalist, tells the story of Tom, a high­school student from Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, who decides to spend his senior year in Wroclaw, Poland. Poland is a surprising educational success story: in the past decade, the country raised students' test scores from significantly below average to well above it. Polish kids have now outscored American kids in math and science, even though Poland spends, on average, less than half as much per student as the United States does. One of the most striking differences between the high school Tom attended in Gettysburg and the one he ends up at in Wroclaw is that the latter has no football team or teams of any kind.
That American high schools spend more time and money on sports than on math is an old complaint. In December, when the latest Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) results are announced, it's safe to predict that American high­school students will once again show their limited skills in math and reading, outscored not just by students in Poland but also by students in places like China, Finland, Singapore, and Japan. Meanwhile, they will have played some very exciting football games, which will have been breathlessly written up in their hometown papers.
Why does this situation continue? Well, for one thing, kids like it. And for another, according to Ripley, parents seem to like the arrangement, too. She describes a tour she took of a school in Washington D．C., which costs thirty thousand dollars a year. The tour leader ­ a mother with three children in the school ­ was asked about the school's flaws (瑕疵). When she said that the math program was weak, none of the parents taking the tour reacted. When she said that the football program was weak, the parents suddenly became concerned. “Really？” one of them asked worriedly, “What do you mean？”
One of the ironies of the situation is that sports show what is possible. American kids' performance on the field shows just how well they can do when expectations are high. It's too bad that their_test_scores_show_the_same_thing._
小題1:Tom decides to spend his senior year in Poland because ________.
A．he intends to improve his scores
B．Polish kids are better at learning
C．sports are not supported at schools in Gettysburg
D．he wants to be the smartest kid in the world
小題2:According to Paragraph 2, we know that ________.
A．PISA plays a very important role in America
B．little time is spent on sports in Japanese schools
C．American students do better in both math and sports
D．too much importance is placed on sports in America
小題3:The underlined sentence in the last paragraph means ________.
A．low expectations result in American students' poor PISA performance
B．high expectations push up American students' academic performance
C．American students' academic performance worries their parents a lot
D．lacking practice contributes to American students' average performance
小題4:The purpose of this article is to ________.
A．compare Polish schools with those in America
B．call on American schools to learn from the Polish model
C．draw public attention to a weakness in American school tradition
D．explain what is wrong with American schools and provide solutions

小題1:A
小題2:D
小題3:A
小題4:C

文章大意：美國學校教育有一個軟肋。
小題1:A　細節(jié)理解題。由第一段第二句可知。
小題2:D　細節(jié)理解題。由第二段第一句可知。
小題3:A　句意理解題。與上句進行對比可知。
小題4:C　寫作意圖題。由全文最后一段可知。
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