Japanese students work very hard but many are unhappy. They feel heavy pressures(壓力) from their parents. Most students are always told by their parents to study harder and better so that they can have a wonderful life in the future. Though this may be a good idea for those very bright students, it can have terrible results for many students who are not gifted(有天賦的) enough. Many of them have tried very hard at school but have failed in the exams and have their parents lose hope. Such students felt that they are hated by everyone else they meet and they don’t want to go to school any longer. They become dropouts.
It is surprising that though most Japanese parents are worried about their children, they do not help them in any way. Many parents feel that they are not able to help their children and that it is the teachers’ work to help their children. To make matters worse, a lot of parents serif their children to those schools opening in the evenings and on weekends — they only help the students to pass the exams and never teach them any real sense of the world.
Many Japanese schools usually have rules about everything from the students’ hair to their clothes and things in their school bags. Child psychologists(心理學(xué)家) now think that such strict rules are harmful to the feelings of the students. Almost 40% of the students said that no one had taught them how to get on with others, how to tell right from wrong and how to show love and care for others, even for their parents.
小題1:“Dropouts” are those who _______.
A．make troubles in and out of schools
B．go about or stay home instead of being at school
C．try hard but always fails in the exams
D．lose hope and give up some of their subjects
小題2:According to the passage, it’s necessary to teach students _______.
A．how to study wellB．how to get on with others
C．to show love and care for othersD．All above
小題3:Which of the following can be the best title of the passage?
A．The Trouble in Japanese Schools
B．The Problems of Japanese Students
C．Education in Japan
D．The Pressures on the Students in Japan

小題1:B
小題2:D
小題3:D

試題分析：本文主要講述了日本學(xué)生盡管學(xué)習(xí)非常努力但不開心，因為父母帶給他們很大的壓力，同時學(xué)校制度也在某種程度上給學(xué)生以不小的壓力。
小題1:從上一句they don’t want to go to school any longer（他們不想再上學(xué)）可以推斷出Dropouts應(yīng)該是輟學(xué)的人，故選B
小題2:從文章最后一句...to get on with others, how to tell right from wrong and how to show love and care for others, even for their parents可得知包括ABC三項內(nèi)容，故選D。
小題3:從文章第一二句Japanese students work very hard but many are unhappy. They feel heavy pressures(壓力) from their parents結(jié)合全文內(nèi)容可知文章主要講述日本學(xué)生面臨的巨大壓力。
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