[单项选择]Vacation schools and extracurricular activities are mentioned in Para. 2 to illustrate alternatives to formal education pro- vided ______ by public schools.
A. the importance of educational changes
B. activities that competed to attract new
C. immigrants to their programs
D. the increased impact of public schools on students

[单项选择]A variety of extracurricular activities are added in American schools （）
A. to help students climb the education ladder
B. to enrich students' dull life at school
C. to help students become more successful in later life
D. to extend college education down into elementary schools

[单项选择]If the right kind of extracurricular activities is organized, those childre, who have a(an) _________ of energy will have a chance to develop their talents much more quickly.
A. consumption
B. exploration
C. exhaustion
D. excess

[单项选择]Where is the man going on vacation


A. Italy.
B. France.
C. Germany.
D. Japan.

[单项选择]Boarding schools are losing their popularity among pupils because ______.

[单项选择]Another distinctive quality of American schools was that ______.
A. the local government was free to organize its own educational system
B. the local government was compelled to follow the central authority
C. each community was free to decide whether to provide education or not
D. the school was controlled by the federal government

[单项选择]Athletic activities are designed （）
A. to make boys stronger
B. to teach students winning spirit
C. to develop students' social and political skills
D. to improve the academic programs

[单项选择]Electronic commerce refers to business activities conducted using electronic data transmission via( ).
A. the Internet and World Wide Web
B. telephone
C. magazine
D. newspaper

[单项选择]In secondary schools every pupil having problems should ______.


A. know how to ask for help
B. be free from any pressure of academic work
C. be able to discuss his problems in class
D. be able to discuss his problems with any teacher

[单项选择]The schools themselves admit that not all children will be successful in the jobs ______ they are being trained.


A. in that
B. for that
C. in which
D. for which

[单项选择]Bill Gates believes that the American high schools are "obsolete" in______.


A. graduating less students than schools in many other countries
B. providing insufficient workforce for American economy
C. offering low-standard education conditions compared with foreign schools
D. bringing out students with poor capabilities

[单项选择]What percentage of high schools offer fruit juice


A. 94%.
B. 72%.
C. 67%.
D. 60%.

[单项选择]The parents of children who attend private schools ______ for their children's education.

[单项选择]Public schools are softening their position on home schooling because ________.

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The outside world begins creeping into the schools when the children reach the age of 13 and older, the age when they begin to make subject choices and when, according to a careers officer,“they know if they’re a scientific lot or more inclined to the arts”. The difficult part is bringing the outside world to life with all its opportunities and realities. Schools are handicapped because they are staffed by people who only know about schools. Careers services are heavily influenced by what is readily available in the area, which may be sausage making in Wiltshire or shipbuilding in riverside. Somewhere out in the world there are landscape gardeners and girls who polish Elizabeth Taylor’s diamonds, but the careers officer knows little of them. What he knows about is engineering and hairdressing (理发,美容)and opportunities in the Army. It is not surprising that this constant friction (摩擦) between grand aspirations and uninspired reality produces cynicism
A. The Gloomy Job Situation for the Youth
B. The Difficulties in Job Hunting for the Youth
C. The Disability of Careers Officers
D. The Friction between Aspirations and Reality