2. When Fiona McFee said “---I just hope it loves me.” What she meant was ____

　 A. Of course , it loves me , since I love it .

　 B. If I love it , it should love me.

　 C. I hope it will bring me a safe sailing as a return for my love of it .

　 D. I hope it will save my life when I am in time of danger .

1. The underlined word cosy in the first paragraph means ____ .

　 A. bright　 B. dirty　 C. comfortable　　 D. dark

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　　 Sixty-year-old grandmother, Fiona McFee, is going to stop working next year and she decided to realize a childhood dream and sail around the coast of Scotland in a small boat. Although the inside of the boat is very cosy it has no running water or electricity. Fiona says she can live without these things but she plans to take her small CD player, her hot water bottle and a bag of books to make sure life isn’t too uncomfortable.

　　 We asked her if she was afraid of being at sea for so long. She said, “Well, I’m going to take a good compass (指南针). Anyway I’m not afraid of death because I love the sea---I just hope it loves me.” Fiona certainly has plenty of energy; in her spare time, she enjoys playing the piano, rock-climbing, canoeing and dancing. Although she is sixty, she doesn’t want to have a quiet and peaceful life. “I’m looking forward to having fun in the rest of my life and that’s exactly why I’d like to be a sailor for a while.”

5. The courses includes ____ .

　 A. yoga, cooking, knitting, kite-making, music, fishing, drama and environmental river studies, except reading, writing, maths and science

　 B. either yoga, cooking, knitting, kite-making, music, fishing, drama and environmental river studies, or reading, writing, maths and science

　 C. not only reading, writing, maths and science, but also yoga, cooking knitting, kitemaking, music, fishing, drama and environmental river studies

　 D. mainly yoga, cooking, knitting, kite-making, music, fishing, drama and environmental river studies, and supplemental (补充的) reading writing, maths and science

4. “The important thing in school is doing not sitting.” What the teachers say actually means ____ .

　 A. What we should do is teaching in the classroom, not sitting in the office.

　 B. Children should do more homework at home, not just sit in class to listen to the teachers.

　 C. Children should learn by themselves not rely on teachers.

　 D. Children should learn through practice not just from books.

3. What makes this kind of school special?

　 A. It is set up by parents not by government.

　 B. It is free to decide what to teach.

　 C. The number of pupils in it is only sixty.

　 D. It has to have at least 27 pupils.

2. The writer tells about the Cooleenbridge School in Ireland because ____ .

　 A. it was set up by parents who are not people of Denmark

　 B. it was taken as an example of this kind of “small school”

　 C. there were only twenty-four children

　 D. the pupils there were aged from 4 to 12

1. What are the rules for setting up a new school in Denmark?

　 A. Parents are allowed to set up their own school.

　 B. The school has to follow the national courses.

　 C. The school has to have at least 27 pupils.

　 D. All of the above.

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　　 In Denmark, parents are allowed to set up a new school if they are dissatisfied with the school in the area where they are living. Although these schools have to follow the national courses, they are allowed a lot of choice in deciding what to teach. Some of these new schools are called “small schools” because usually the number of pupils in them is only sixty, but a school has to have at least twenty-seven pupils.

　　 Cooleenbridge School in Ireland, is a small school similar to the ones in Denmark, it was set up by parents who came from Holland, Germany, Czechoslovakia, England and other parts of Ireland. They came because they wanted to live in the countryside and to grow their own food. In June 1986, they decided to start a school. They managed to get an old, disused primary-school (小学) building and started with twenty-four children aged from four to twelve.

　　 The teachers say, “The important thing in school is doing, not sitting.”And so the courses includes yoga(瑜伽), cooking, knitting, kite-making, music, fishing, drama (戏剧) and environmental(环境的) river studies, as well as reading, writing, maths and science.

4. The huge mirror is ______.

　 A. something in a story.　　　　　　　 B. already made.

　 C. just an idea.　　　　　　　　　　 D. to be made soon.