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During the first six months, the new students attend a special catch-up class,
where they begin with first-grade Chinese. They learn quickly and are usually
able to jump back into their normal Chinese class in about six months. The
children come from all over the world, but the common language for __51__ is
English. " __52__ learning Chinese, my brother and I also had to obey the
Chinese classroom disciplines - much stricter than in the American schools we
had come __53__ . Students were expected to sit __54__ and listen to the
teacher __55__ talking. If you wanted to answer a question, you had to raise
your hand and then stand up to speak __56__ called upon.
Students who did something wrong were criticized in front of __57__ the class.
These brought order, which helped the teacher cover more ground in less time,
unlike in many American schools, __58__ much time is wasted __59__ control the
students. __60__ this, the math in the third and fourth grade in China's
primary school was roughly comparable to the fifth and sixth-grade math classes
in our own country, if not slightly more advanced. By the middle of the fourth
grade, my class had begun to study Algebra, a subject which was begun in the
seventh grade, at the very earliest, in our American schools."
51.
A. all them
B. all of them
C. they all
D. their all
52.
A. Except
B. But
C. Beside
D. Besides
