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     Each new school year brings fresh reminders of what educators call the summer learning gap. Some
call it the summer learning setback. Simply speaking,it means the longer kids are out of 'school,the more
they forget. The only thing they might gain is weight.
     Most American schools follow a traditional nine-month calendar with winter and spring breaks and
about ten weeks of summer vacation. Some schools follow a year-round calendar. They hold classes for
about eight weeks at a time,with a few weeks off in between. The National Association for Year-Round
Education says there were fewer than 3,000 such schools at last count. They were spread among forty-six of the fifty states.
     But many experts point out that the number of class days in a year-round school is generally the same
as in a traditional school. Lead researcher Paul von Hippel said,"Year-round schools don't really solve the problem of the summer learning setback. They simply spread it out across the year.
     Across the country,research shows that students from poor families fall farther behind over the summer than other students. Experts say this can be prevented. They note that many schools and local governments offer programs that can help.
     But calling them "summer school" could be a problem. The director of the summer learning center at
Johns Hopkins,Ron Fairchild,said research with groups of different parents in Chicago and Baltimore
found that almost all strongly disliked the term "summer school". In American culture,the idea of summer
vacation is connected to beliefs about freedom and the joys of childhood. The parents welcomed other
terms like "summer camp," "extra time" and "hands-on learning. "
1. According to the first paragraph,the summer learning gap ____
A. helps children to gain weight        
B. leads children to work harder
C. improves children's memories      
D. affects children's regular studies
2. Compared to traditional schools,students in the year-round ones _____
A. perform better and have more learning gains
B. have much less time for relaxation every year
C. have generally the same number of class days                      
D. hold more classes with more free weeks off
3. Which of the following statements is true?
A. Students from poor families often fall behind after the vocation.
B. Year-round schools can solve the problem of the learning gap.
C. There are schools in each state following a year-round calendar.      
D. Nothing can help the students who fall behind after the vocation.
4. Why did almost all parents dislike the term "summer school"?
A. They cherish the children's rights of freedom very much.
B. They are worried about the quality of the "summer school".    
C. They want their children to be forced to make up the gap.
D. They can't afford to the further study during the vacation.
5. What would be the best title of this passage?    
A. Opening Summer Camps
B. Forbidding Summer Schools
C. Spreading Year-Round Education
D. Minding the Summer Learning Cap  
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科目：高中英語 來源：河北省邢臺一中2011－2012學(xué)年高二下學(xué)期第四次月考英語試題 題型：050

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　　My father made a deal with me that he would match whatever I could come up with to buy my fir st car．From the time I wa s a saver．My allowance, back in tho se day s, wa s twenty five cent s a week．I grew up on a farm near a small town called Ventura．In tho se day s the area wa s mo stly agricultural．The climate wa s and still i s a s clo se to perfect a s you could get．I earned some of my money picking one crop or another．When I wa s about ten, a school friend' s family owned walnut orchard s(果園)and it wa s harve st time．She told me we could earn five dollar s for every bag of walnut s we picked．I certainly learned about picking walnut s that day．Not surprisingly, that wa s my fir st and la st time a s a walnut picker．

　　In 1960 my grandmother pa s sed away．She left me 100 share s of AT＆T．One hundred share s of stock don't seem like much today but back then tho se share s paid me＄240 per year in dividend s(利息)．That wa s huge for a kid my age．

　　By the time I wa s seventeen．I had saved up ＄ 1, 300 and I knew exactly that I wanted．Ithink my father wa s somewhat suri sed when I announced I had saved up ＄ 1, 300 and wa s ready to buy my new car．I'll never forget the evening my father said, “Let' s go see about that car”．I wa s so excited．

　　My father could have ea sily ju st given me the car but he alway s in si sted that hi s children work for what they got．Thi s wa s not a bad thing．I learned self-reliance．Self-reliance i s equal to freedom．Now that I think about it I need to be thanking my father．

(1)

Which one of the following s didn't belong to the saving of ＄1, 300?

[　　]

A．

Weekly allowance．

B．

Her earning s by picking crop s．

C．

Share s left by grandma．

D．

Money earned from selling share s．

(2)

The underlined part in the second paragraph probably meant ________．

[　　]

A．

she didn't have the chance of picking walnut s

B．

enough money had been earned for her car

C．

the work wa s too hard for children like her

D．

she had no time to do that again for some rea son

(3)

We can know from the pa s sage the author got her car at the age of ________．

[　　]

A．

16

B．

17

C．

18

D．

19

(4)

The purpo se of the author' s father doing like that wa s to ________．

[　　]

A．

give the author freedom

B．

be unwilling to buy the author a car

C．

teach the author to learn self－reliance

D．

give the author a big surpri se

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