Inafamousstory,ayoungboycalled-优题课

Ted, my little brother, is in Grade One. Last Friday he came back from school with a letter. The letter was from his teacher. "I got a red flower today. Could you please sign签字 this note?" he said to Mum. The note showed that he had been talking in class.
Ted hardly gets top scores in his school work. The best he gets is "OK", but often he gets "You can do better than this." Mum knows what it means. She tells me "You can do better than this" means "Extremely bad" in China.
In the USA, teachers never say anything too bad about their students, even if the students are making trouble in class or not working hard enough. The worst they might say is "Please be nicer tomorrow". Many parents are satisfied with对---满意 a B-grade for each subject.
But things in Chinese schools are quite different. Parents have high expectations for their children. I sometimes felt that my second-grade cousin spent more time on homework than I did when I was a 6^th grader in the USA! Yet his parents and teachers didn't think he worked hard enough.
Is it too strict in China? Or is it not strict enough in the USA? Maybe both are true.
Why did Ted come home with .a letter last Friday ?

A．Because the teacher wanted to visit his mother.

B．Because he did something wrong.

C．Because the teacher was happy with his progress.

D．Because the teacher thought he was too lazy.

If a student in the USA gets "OK" in his school work, it means .

A．he gets top scores

B．he gets medium scores

C．he gets extremely bad scores

D．he gets the worst scores

American parents will be when their children get a B-grade in their school.

A．excited

B．sad

C．angry

D．happy

The underlined words "high expectations" in this passage means .

A．很高的待遇

B．很多的自由

C．很高的期望

D．很多的关爱

The writer mainly wants to tell us .

A．the differences between Chinese education and American education

B．Chinese students are better than American students

C．American parents are not strict enough with their children

D．what the best way to educate children is

Many students have already had clear ideas about what jobs they would like to have in the future. We believe boys’ choices are different from girls’. To find out how different their choices are, we made a survey in Green High School. The following diagram shows the results of the survey.

About 45% of the girls would like to be ________ in the future.

A．bank clerks

B．reporters

C．scientists

D．teachers

About ________ of the boys want to be teachers as well.

A．5%

B．15%

C．28%

D．38%

Which job do the girls like least?

A．Bank clerks

B．Reporters

C．Managers

D．Scientists

What does the diagram show us?

A．Boys’ abilities of jobs are the same as girls’.

B．Boys’ abilities of jobs are different from girls’.

C．Boys’ choices of jobs are the same as girls’.

D．Boys’ choices of jobs are different from girls’.

Which of the following statements is RIGHT?

A．More girls would like to be reporters than boys.

B．More boys would like to be bank clerks than girls.

C．Boys would like to be reporters most.

D．Girls would like to be managers most.

Dear Alice,
You really have two difficult questions here, so we’ll discuss them one at a time. Your problems at school may be a result of a number of things. You don’t say much about how these classmates get along with each other. It’s possible that all the students are feeling a little cautions(谨慎) in the first term.
It’s also possible that the others are unkind. If this is so, you have to find out why you are the class “outsider”.
In your letter you often offer to help others with their work. Is it possible that your classmates didn’t understand your offers? Could it seem that you were trying to “buy” friends with these offers?
Is it possible that you took no notice of your classmates when you had your good friends near you? They may have left hurt at that time. It may take a time for them to believe in you. If so, try to ask one classmate directly what the problem is. If you hear a negative(负面的) answer,at least you’ll know what to do.
Yours,
Shelia
From the leter we know that Alice was very .
A. lucky B. unkind C.unhappy
From the letter we can conclude() that .
A. Alice wasn’t pleased with her teachers
B. Alice’s parents made her study too hard
C. Alice didn’t get along well with her classmates
In the letter Shelia talked about possible reasons for Alice’s problems.
A. four B. six C. eight
Which of the following is NOT true according to the letter?
A. Alice felt her classmates weren’t kind to her.
B. Alice was very warm-hearted to help her classmates.
C. Alice didn’t want to get along well with her classmates.
Shelia’s advice to Alice is that .
A. Alice should find out the true reason for her problems
B. Alice should leave school as soon as possible
C. Alice should get one negative answer

Tom arrived at the bus station quite early for Paris bus. The bus for Paris would not leave until five to twelve. He saw a lot of people waiting in the station. Some were standing in line(排队) , others were walking around. There was a group of schoolgirls. Their teacher was trying to keep them in line. Tom looked around but there was no place for him to sit.
He walked into the statiom café. He looked up at the clock there.It was only twenty to twelve. He found a seat and sat down before a large mirror(镜子) on the wall. Just then, Mike, one of Tom’s workmates came in and sat with Tom. “ What time is your bus? ”asked Mike. “ There’s plently of time yet,” answered Tom. “Well, I’ll get you some more tea then,” said Mike. They talked while drinking. Then Tom looked at the clock again. “Oh!It’s going backward(倒行) !”he cried. “A few minutes ago it was twenty to twelve and now it’s half past eleven.” “You’re looking at the clock in the mirror.” Said Mike. Tom was so sad. The next bus was not to leave for another hour.Since then Tom has never liked mirror.
Tom went into the station café because .
A. Mike asked him to have a cup of tea
B. it was quite early and he could find a seat there
C. he didn’t like to stay with the schoolgirs
What time was it in fact when Tom looked at the clock in the mirror?
A. Half past twelve B. Twenty to twelve C. Half past eleven
From the story we know that when we look at a clock in a mirror, we will find .
A. the time is right B. it’s going slower C. it’s going backward
Which of the following is true ?
A. Tom arrived in Paris on time
B. Tom looked at the clock in the mirror only once.
C. After that Tom didn’t clocks any longer.
Which of the following is the title() of the story ?
A. The Mirror of the Station.
B. Not A Careful man.
C. The Clock In The Mirror.

There was once a man called Mr.Flowers, and flowers were his only joy in life. He spent all his spare time in one of his four glass-houses and grew flowers of every color, with long and difficult names, for competition. He tried to grow a rose of a new color to win the silver cup for the Rose of the Year.
Mr.Flowers’ glass-houses were close to a middle school. Boys of around thirteen years of age were often tempted(引诱) to throw a stone or two at one of Mr.Flowers’ glass-houses. So Mr.Flowers did his best to be in or close by his glass-houses at the beginning and end of the school day.
But it was not always possible to be on watch at those times. Mr. Flowers has tried in many ways to protect his glass, but nothing that he had done had been useful. He had been to school to report to the headmaster, but this had not done any good. He had tried to drive away the boys that threw stones into his garden. But the boys could run faster than he could,and they laughed at him from far away. He had even picked up all the stones that he could find around his garden , so that the boys would have nothing to throw, but they soon found others.
At last Mr.Flowers had a good idea. He put up a large notice made of good,strong wood, some metres away from the glass-houses. On it he had written the words: DO NOT THROW STONES AT THIS NOTICES. After this, Mr.Flowers had no further trouble:the boys wee much more tempted to throw stones at the notice than at the glass-houses.
It was Mr. Flowers’ hope to .
A. build glass-houses in his spare time
B. grow the Rose of the Year in a silver cup
C. win a silver cup for growing a rose of a new color
Boys were often tempted to .
A. throw stones at Mr.Flowers’ glass-houses
B. throw stones at Mr.Flowers’ from their school
C. be in or close by Mr. Flowers’ glass-houses
Mr.Flowers stayed in or close by his glass-houses .
A. at times when school-boys were walking near them
B. all the school day when there were no boys about
C.in his spare time at the beginning and end of the school day
Mr.Flowers had tried to to protect his glass.
A. be on watch in his spare time
B. ask the headmaster for help
C. both A and B
Mr. Flowers’ good idea was to .
A. write some words on the glass
B. put up a large notice to cover his glass-houses
C. give the boys something else to throw stones at