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Goal of American Education
Education is an enormous and expensive part of American life.Its size is matched by its variety.
Differences in American schools compared with those found in the majority of other countries lie in the
fact that education here has long been intended for everyone一not just for a privileged elite.Schools are ex-
pected to meet the needs of every child,regardless of ability,and also the needs of society itself. This means
that public schools offer more than academic subjects.It surprises many people when they come here to find
high schools offering such courses as typing,sewing,radio repair,computer programming or driver training,
along with traditional academic subjects such as mathematics,history,and languages.Students choose their
curricula depending on their interests,future goals,and level of ability. The underlying goal of American edu-
cation is to develop every child to the utmost of his or her own possibilities,and to give each one a sense of
civic and community consciousness.
Schools have traditionally played an important role in creating national unity and"Americanizing"the
millions of immigrants who have poured into this country from many different backgrounds and origins.
Schools still play a large role in the community,especially in the small towns.
The approach to teaching may seem unfamiliar to many,not only because it is informal,but also
because there is not much emphasis on learning facts.Instead,Americans try to teach their children to think
for themselves and to develop their own intellectual and creative abilities.Students spend much time,learning
how to use resource materials,libraries,statistics and computers.Americans believe that if children are
taught to reason well and to research well,they will be able to find whatever facts they need throughout the
rest of their lives.Knowing how to solve problems is considered more important than the accumulation of
facts.
This is America's answer to the searching question that thoughtful parents all over the world are asking
themselves in the fast-moving time:"How can one prepare today's child for a tomorrow that one can neither
predict nor understand?"
Which of the following best states the feature of American education that makes it different from education in other countries?
A:The large number of its schools.
B:The variety of the courses offered in its schools.
C:Its special consideration given to immigrants.
D:Its underlying goal to develop every child's abilities to the fullest extent.
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It took us a long time to mend the old church.
A:build
B:destroy
C:design
D:repair
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Book Shops in London
Londoners are great readers.They buy vast numbers of newspapers and magazines and of books一specially paperbacks,which are still comparatively cheap in spite of ever-increasing rises in
the costs of printing. They still continue to buy"proper"books,too,printed on good paper and bound between hard covers.
There are many streets in London containing shops which specialize in book-selling. Perhaps the best known of these is Charring Cross Road in the very heart of London.Here bookshops of all sorts and sizes are to be found,from the celebrated one which boasts of being"the biggest bookshop in the world"to the tiny,dusty little places which seem to have been left over from Dicken's time. Some of these shops stock,or will obtain,any kind of book,but many of them specialize in second-hand books,in art books,in foreign books,in books on philosophy,politics or any other of the myriad subjects about which books may be written.One shop in this area specializes solely in books about ballet.
Although it may be the most convenient place for Londoners to buy books,Charring Cross Road is not the cheapest. For the really cheap second-hand volumes,the collector must venture off the beaten track,to Farringdon Road,for example,in the East Central district of London.Here there is nothing so grandiose as bookshops.Instead,the booksellers come along each morning and tip out their sacks of books on the small barrows（流动集售货车）which line the gutters（街沟）.And the collectors,some professional and some amateur, who have been waiting for them,pounce（一把抓住）upon the dusty cascaded（一叠叠图书）.In places like this one can still, occasionally, pick up for a few pence an old volume that may be worth many pounds.
"Londoners are great readers"means that________.
A:Londoners are great because they read a lot
B:there are a great number of readers in London
C:Londoners are readers who read only great books
D:Londoners read a lot
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Working Mothers
Carefully conducted researches that have followed the children of working mothers have not been able to show any long-term problems,compared with children whose mothers stayed at home.My personal______(1)is that mothers should be allowed to work if they wish.
Whether we like it or not,there are a______(2) of mothers who just have to work.There are
those who have invested such a big part of their lives in establishing a career that they cannot______(3) see it lost.Then there are many who must work out of pure economic______(4).Many mothers are not______(5) out to be full-time parents.After a few months at home with a much loved infant,they feel trapped and isolated.
There are a number of options when it______(6) to choosing childcare.These range from child minders and nannies through to Granny or the kind lady______(7) the street.______(8) ,howev-er,many parents don't have any choice；they have to accept anything they can get.Be pre-pared!No______(9) how good the childcare may be,some children are going to protest wildly if they are left.This is a______(10) normal stage of child development.Babies separate well in the first six months,but soon after that they start to get a crush on Mum and close family______(11).Make sure that in the first week you allow______(12) time to help your child settle in.
All children are different.Some are independent,while others are more______(13) to their mothers.Remember that if you want to______(14) the best for your children,it's not the quantity of time you spend with them,it's the______(15) that matters.
4._________
A:reason
B:duty
C:necessity
D:task
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Child Consultants
These days,"what do you want to do when you grow up?"is the wrong question to ask
children in the US
A.The________(1)should be:"what job are you doing now?"
American companies are employing more and more young people as consultants to evaluate
products for child ________(2).The 12-to-19 __________(3) group spends more
than $100 billion a year in the US
A.Specialist agencies have been created to help
manufacturers ask kids about all the latest trends in clothes,food and_________(4)
markets. One__________(5),Teenage Research Unlimited , has panels（评判小组）of
teenagers who give their verdict(裁决)on products. ________(6) jeans（牛仔裤）.
Another company,Doyle Research Associated,holds two-hour sessions in a room
_________(7) the"imaginarium（想象室）."Children are encouraged to play games to
get________ (8)a creative mood.They have to write down any ideas that
__________(9)into their heads.
Some manufacturers prefer to do their own___________(10)research.The software
company Microsoft runs a weekly"Kid's Council"at its headquarters in Seattle,
___________(11)a panel of school children give their verdict on the________(12)
products and suggest new ones. One 11-year-old,Andrew Cooledge,told them that they
should make more computer games which would appeal equally__________(13)boys
and girls.Payments for the work are increasingly attractive.Andrew Cooledge was paid
$250 and given some software.__________(14),even if their ideas are valuable,the
children will never make a fortune.They cannot have the copyright to their ideas.These
are not jobs they can hold for long.__________(15)their mid-teens they can be told that
they are too old.
_________(3)
A:age
B:year
C:time
D:generation
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