On a small farm in Mexico, there are no schools. A bus is the school. The driver of the bus is the teacher. It’s a school bus, but it doesn’t take the children to school. It just goes round from place to place, and sometimes it comes to this farm. The bus will stay here for three months. The farmers call it a school on wheels (车轮). Every time when the bus comes, the farmers will come, running to it, shouting and laughing. They warmly welcome the school bus.

When the bus is on the farm, in the morning, the teacher teaches the small children. In the afternoon, the bigger children come to have their lessons because they must work in the morning. At night, the fathers and mothers come to school. They want to learn, too. How the farmers hope that some day they can have a real school on their farm!

1.The driver of the bus is ________.

A. the teacher B. the student

C. the farmer D. the school

2.The bus school will ______________.

A. take the children to school

B. stay here for a long time

C. take the fathers and mothers to school

D. go round from place to place

3.When the bus school comes, the farmers will ___________.

A. stop working B. warmly welcome it

C. be happy D. both B and C

4.The bigger children have their lessons in the afternoon because _________ in the morning.

A. they can’t get up early

B. the teacher wants to teach the small children first

C. they have a lot of work to do

D. they have to do their homework

5.Which is true?

A. A school bus is a real school for farmers’ children.

B. The bus school has no teacher at all.

C. The bus school has no students.

D. The children and their parents on the farm all come to the bus school to learn.


Would you like to experience what going to school was like in the late 1800s? to start with, imagine everyone in school only one classroom.

In the 19th and early 20th centuries, most American students went to a one-room schoolhouse. A single teacher would typically(典型地) have students in the first through eighth grades, and she taught them all. The number of students varied from six to 40 or more. The youngest children sat in the front, while the oldest students sat in the back. The teacher usually taught reading, writing, arithmetic, history, and geography. Students memorized(记忆) and retold their lessons.

The classroom of a one-room schoolhouse probably looked much like your own. The teacher’s desk stood on a raised platform(讲台) at the front of the room, however, and there was a wood-burning stove since there was no other way of heating. The bathroom was outside in an outhouse.

In Honeoye Falls, New York, there is a one-room schoolhouse where kids today can experience what it was like to the students in the late 19th century. For a week during the summer, they wear 19th century clothes and learn the way children learned more than a hundred years ago.

What else has changed about school since the 19th century? For more information, please visit our website: www. Locallygacy.com.

1. What does the word “varied” in the Paragraph Two mean in Chinese?

A. 变化   B. 排列     C. 调整       D. 减少

2. Students in the late 19th century could learn_____?

A. reading, writing, sports, history, and science.

B. reading, art, arithmetic, history, and geography

C. reading, writing, arithmetic, history, and geography

D. reading, physics, chemistry, history, and geography

53.Which of the following best shows what a one-room schoolhouse was like in the late 19th century?

A.   B.

C.  D.

4. Some kids go to Honeoye Falls to _____.

A. try the food in the late 19th century          

B. learn the subjects over a century ago    

C. memorized and retell their lessons they have learn   

D. experience the way children learned over a century ago

5. Which of the following is TRUE about the students in a one-room schoolhouse?

A. They had only one teacher.

B. They had different classrooms.

C. They could choose the seats they liked.

D. They learned more subjects than we do now.

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