A new school was opened near the capital, Dacca, to help poor children．There are   1   120 children in the school, which has   2   classrooms．In each classroom, the forty pupils are divided into four   3   of ten．Each pupil is   4   to decide which group he wants to   5   ．The best pupils do a lot of the   6   ．They are like group   7   ．Their   8   is to ensure(确保)that the pupils in their group understand and   9   what the teacher has taught.

    There are some   10   things in this Bangladesh school．Children are not promoted(升级)automatically(自动地)．Each group is promoted only when EVERY pupil in it has   11   the right level．Lessons are extremely   12   and   13   work on farming, carpentry(木工) and health—as   14   as lessons on reading, writing and arithmetic.

    If pupils have to   15   cattle or young children, they are permitted to bring   16   to school．If a child has to stay at home to help his parents, there   17   punishment．Children   18   their lessons, and the school is   19   to run．It is so   20   that other schools are beginning to Copy its methods.

1．A．only

B．about

C．over

D．less than

2．A．four

B．several

C．three

D．many

3．A．classes

B．groups

C．pains

D．crowds

4．A．possible

B．necessary

C．glad

D．free

5．A．leave

B．take

C．join

D．support

6．A．teaching

B．homework

C．cleaning

D．lessons

7．A．classmates

B．monitors

8．A．order

B．job

C．duty

D．favorite

9．A．remark

B．recognize

C．question

D．practice

10．A．unusual

B．perfect

C．clever

D．common

11．A．kept

B．reached

C．changed

D．arrived

12．A．heavy

B．practical

C．exact

D．curious

13．A．produce

B．go to

C．follow

D．include

14．A．soon

B．far

C．long

D．well

15．A．look for

B．think about

C．look after

D．remain

16．A．them

B．it

C．one

D．him

17．A．is

B．will be

C．is no

D．he will get

18．A．review

B．enjoy

C．prepare

D．dislike

19．A．strict

B．cheap

C．slow

D．expensive

20．A．interesting

B．special

C．ordinary

D．successful

    Wise buying is a positive way in which you can make your money go further．The   21   you go about purchasing all item or a service can actually  22  you money or can add  23    the cost．

    Take the  24  example of a hairdryer．If you are buying a hairdryer, you might   25     you are making the  26  buy if you choose one  27   look you like and which is also the cheapest  28   price．But when you get it home you may find that it  29   twice as long  as a more expensive  30   to dry your hair．The cost of the electricity plus the cost of your time could well  31  your hairdryer the most expensive one of all．

    So what principles should you  32  when you go out shopping?

    If you  33   your home，your car or any valuable  34  in excellent condition，you’ll be saving money in the long  35  ．Before you buy a new  36  ，talk to someone who owns one．If you can，use it or borrow it to check it suits your particular  37  ．

    Before you buy an expensive  38  ，or a service，do check the price and  39    is on offer．If possible，choose  40   three items or three estimates．

One day, Mr. Arnold was teaching a lesson, and things were going as normally as ever. He was explaining the story of mankind to his pupils. He told them that, in the beginning, men were nomads; they never stayed in the same place for very long. Instead, they would travel about, here and there, in search of food, wherever it was to be found. And when the food ran out, they would move off somewhere else.
He taught them about the invention of farming and keeping animals. This was an important discovery, because by learning to cultivate(耕作)the land, and care for animals, mankind would always have food steadily available. It also meant that people could remain living in one place, and this made it easier to set about tasks that would take a long while to complete, like building towns, cities, and all that were in them. All the children were listening attracted by this story, until Lucy jumped up:
“And if that was so important and improved everything so much, why are we nomads all over again, Mr. Arnold?”
Mr. Arnold didn’t know what to say. Lucy was a very intelligent girl. He knew that she lived with her parents in a house, so she must know that her family were not nomads; so what did she mean?
“We have all become nomads again,” continued Lucy, “The other day, outside the city, they were cutting the forest down. A while ago a fisherman told me how they fish. It’s the same with everyone: when there’s no more forest left the foresters go elsewhere, and when the fish run out the fishermen move on. That’s what the nomads did, isn’t it ?
The teacher nodded, thoughtfully. Really, Lucy was right Mankind had turned into nomads. Instead of looking after the land in a way that we could be sure it would keep supplying our needs, we kept developing it until the land was bare. And then off we would go to the next place! The class spent the rest of the afternoon talking about what they could do to show how to be more civilized.
The next day everyone attended class wearing a green T-shirt, with a message that said “I am not a nomad!”
And , from then on, they set about showing that indeed they were not. Every time they knew they needed something, they made sure that they would get it using care and control. If they needed wood or paper, they would make sure that they got the recycled kind. They ordered their fish from fish farms, making sure that the fish they received were not too young and too small. They only used animals that were well cared for, and brought up on farms.
And so, from their little town, those children managed to give up being nomads again, just as prehistoric men had done, so many thousands of years ago.
【小题1】From Paragraph 2, we can know that______ .

One day, Mr. Arnold was teaching a lesson, and things were going as normally as ever. He was explaining the story of mankind to his pupils. He told them that, in the beginning, men were nomads; they never stayed in the same place for very long. Instead, they would travel about, here and there, in search of food, wherever it was to be found. And when the food ran out, they would move off somewhere else.

He taught them about the invention of farming and keeping animals. This was an important discovery, because by learning to cultivate(耕作)the land, and care for animals, mankind would always have food steadily available. It also meant that people could remain living in one place, and this made it easier to set about tasks that would take a long while to complete, like building towns, cities, and all that were in them. All the children were listening attracted by this story, until Lucy jumped up:

“And if that was so important and improved everything so much, why are we nomads all over again, Mr. Arnold?”

Mr. Arnold didn’t know what to say. Lucy was a very intelligent girl. He knew that she lived with her parents in a house, so she must know that her family were not nomads; so what did she mean?

“We have all become nomads again,” continued Lucy, “The other day, outside the city, they were cutting the forest down. A while ago a fisherman told me how they fish. It’s the same with everyone: when there’s no more forest left the foresters go elsewhere, and when the fish run out the fishermen move on. That’s what the nomads did, isn’t it ?

The teacher nodded, thoughtfully. Really, Lucy was right Mankind had turned into nomads. Instead of looking after the land in a way that we could be sure it would keep supplying our needs, we kept developing it until the land was bare. And then off we would go to the next place! The class spent the rest of the afternoon talking about what they could do to show how to be more civilized.

The next day everyone attended class wearing a green T-shirt, with a message that said “I am not a nomad!”

And , from then on, they set about showing that indeed they were not. Every time they knew they needed something, they made sure that they would get it using care and control. If they needed wood or paper, they would make sure that they got the recycled kind. They ordered their fish from fish farms, making sure that the fish they received were not too young and too small. They only used animals that were well cared for, and brought up on farms.

And so, from their little town, those children managed to give up being nomads again, just as prehistoric men had done, so many thousands of years ago.

1.From Paragraph 2, we can know that______ .

A．people got tired of living in the same place

B．people gradually got used to living in cities

C．people tended to settle down after learning farming

D．people spent a long time in learning to keep animals

2.In the teacher’s opinion, Lucy’s argument was______

A．shocking          B．ridiculous         C．puzzling           D．reasonable

3.Which of the following agrees with the message “I am not a nomad” (Paragraph 7)?

A．People eat young fish for its delicious taste.

B．Foresters leave the place where wood is not available.

C．Fishermen move elsewhere when there is no fish left.

D．People use recycled materials as much as possible.

4.The writer tries to make us believe that ______.

A．mankind has been progressing mainly through traveling about

B．it’s unwise for mankind to use the land in an uncontrolled way

C．it’s quite good for students to learn more about the history of mankind

D．in the beginning men were nomads.