Weekday mornings are very busy for US middle school students. People are running into each other, shouting across the house, knocking on the bathroom door and always, always running late. When you’re late for the carpool, though, you also make everyone else late.

When your school doesn’t have a bus, and you live too far away to walk, you need a carpool. A carpool is a group of people sharing the responsibility (责任) of driving their kids to school in the morning. There are usually four or five kids in a carpool and their parents take turns to drive the kids in their cars. Someone’s car smells like wet dogs. Some kids get to eat desserts (甜点) for breakfast and some parents shout so much that all you try to do is to stay

quiet and go unnoticed. When your mum or dad drives the carpool, your classmates get a close- up look at how strange your parents can be. It might be your first sociological (社会学的) study and your first time to work with others.Teamwork is really important in the carpool because nobody wants to make everyone else late. It’s a great lesson in responsibility. Imagine (想象) sitting in the car outside of a classmate’s house, watching the watch and counting the seconds. Then you start to understand how your carpool friends might feel when you are still inside the house at 7:48. You really begin to learn all your real life lessons just moments before the start of school—in the carpool.

1.What is a carpool?

A. Kids go to school in their parents’ cars.

B. Parents take turns to drive their kids to school.

C. Parents drive their kids to school on their way to work.

D. Kids drive their own cars to school.

2.How many kids are usually in a carpool?

A. Two or three. B. Three or four. C. Four or five. D. Five or six.

3.What can kids learn from a carpool?

A. How to drive a car. B. How to get along with others.

C. The importance of good habits. D. Real teamwork.

4.Which of the following statements is true according to the passage?

A. Kids living far away are always late for school.

B. Kids enjoy carpooling better than taking a school bus.

C. Kids can learn real life lessons in a carpool.

D. Kids often have enough time to finish their homework in a carpool.

5.When in a carpool at the beginning, kids may feel .

A. worried B. excited C. surprised D. sad

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