Students often complain their teachers give them too much homework Now, two reporters show that in America this is not true．
The Brookings report shows that most students do less than one hour of homework．The Rand report shows that only 10％ of high school students spend more than two hours a night on homework．
The Brookings report also talks about a study from 1995．American students do almost the least homework among twenty countries．Students in France, Italy and South Africa spend more than two hours on homework．
The Rand report says there was only one time when homework greatly increased in America．During the early 1960s, Americans were not happy when the Soviet．Union became the first country to reach space．People thought it was necessary to improve education．
Parents want their children to have time for sports, music lessons and other things after school．Some experts say schools need to give useful homework．
(1)
Students are not happy about ________．
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A．
too much homework
B．
going to school
C．
less homework
(2)
French students usually spend ________ on homework than American students．
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A．
more time
B．
less time
C．
more daytime
(3)
________ shows homework once greatly increased in America．
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A．
The Brookings report
B．
The Rand report
C．
University
(4)
The Soviet Union was the ________ to get to space．
Tom 1 some new colour pencils in his pencil-box．What colour are they? Let’s have 2 ．They are red, black, blue, white, purple, orange 3 green．Tom likes 4 very much．He draws 5 with them．Now he is drawing a house．The door is green．The walls 6 White．The windows are big．It’s very nice．There are many flowers 7 the house．There is 8 black and white sheep behind the house．It is eating grass．Are there 9 other animals in the picture? Yes, there are．
We all like the picture．We want to put it 10 the wall of our classroom．
