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As summer comes near, many children are really happy to forget about school for a few months. However, they might be taking that goal too seriously. Studies have found that children often forget between one and three months’ worth of school learning during the summer months. Spelling and math abilities drop off the most, while reading is not really influenced by the time off. The main reason for this is because most children sometimes read outside of the classroom, whether newspapers, magazines, books, or video game guides. However, their math and spelling skills only get exercised in the school setting.
The first purpose of summer holidays was to let farm children have time off to help work in the fields during the growing season, but this reason is no longer a good one since fewer kids actually work on farms today. Some cities in the United States, such as Los Angeles, have moved to a year-round school timetable, which may help reduce the loss of school skills that happens during the long summer holiday. To improve skills and to keep a good level of preparation, headmasters suggest trips to museums, summer camps, holidays with educational value, and visits to libraries to keep kids interested throughout the summer.
There are other educational systems that provide holidays while still keeping students’ skills up to date. For example, in Japan, students attend class for seven weeks in a row, followed by two weeks of holiday. This continues the whole year. In Italy, students attend class six days per week, but finish at 1: 30 pm each day, so that school does not run their life the way that it does in America, where students attend high school from 7: 45 am until 3: 00 pm each weekday. In areas where there are not enough classrooms—in Afghanistan or Somalia, for example—older students attend classes in the morning while the younger kids go to school in the afternoon.
Headmasters fear that the three-month summer holiday stops the flow of learning. Just as students become used to new math problems or new ideas in reading, writing, or thinking skills, they “shut down” during the summer holiday. When they go back to school after the long summer holiday, they take up to two months to return to their previous (先前的) level of skill. So the debate continues: whether to continue holidays or to make changes based on the Los Angeles or the Japanese models.
小題1:Which skills suffer the most over the summer holidays?
A．Math and reading.B．Math and spelling.
C．Reading and writing.D．Reading and thinking.
小題2:What can we learn about the first purpose of summer holidays?
A．It is still widely acceptable now.B．It was popular in some cities.
C．It is not a good reason for city kids.D．It was more for teachers than for students.
小題3:The underlined phrase “shut down” in the last paragraph probably means __________.
A．stop learningB．get sick
C．go on readingD．focus on studies
小題4:What can we infer from the passage?
A．Parents always read to their kids to keep reading skills.
B．Summer holidays lead to the loss of all the school skills.
C．Students love holidays and get their mind off learning in holidays.
D．In Italy students attend classes in the late afternoon six days a week.

小題1:B
小題2:C
小題3:A
小題4:C 

試題分析：文章大意：暑假過后，你是否感到學習吃力？本文圍繞暑假的設置對學生學習的影響這一論點展開論述。。
小題1:B細節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)文章第一段中的Spelling and math abilities drop off the most, while reading is not really influenced by the time off.可知是數(shù)學和拼寫。故B正確。
小題2:C細節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)文章第二段Some cities in the United States, such as Los Angeles, have moved to a year-round school timetable, which may help reduce the loss of school skills that happens during the long summer holiday.可以得出答案。故C正確。
小題3:A詞義猜測題。本段第一句指出：三個月的假期阻止了學生的學習進程。接著又分析了這一現(xiàn)象：學生本來已經(jīng)適應了學習進程，但因為假期中斷。故A正確。
小題4:C細節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)文章第三段內(nèi)容可知：日本和意大利的學生假期并不影響他們的技能發(fā)展。故C正確。
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