题目内容
阅读理解
Ted, my little brother, is in Grade One. Last Friday he came back from school with a letter. The letter was from his teacher. “I got a red flower today. Could you please sign this note?” he said to mum. The note showed that he had been talking in class.
Ted hardly gets top scores in his school work. The best he gets is “OK”, but he often gets “You can do better than this.” Mum knows what it means. She tells me “You can do better than this” means “Extremely bad” in China.
In the USA, teachers never say anything too bad about their students, even if the students are making trouble in class or not working hard enough. The worst they might say is “Please be nicer tomorrow”. Many parents are satisfied with a B-grade for each subject.
But things in Chinese schools are quite different. Parents have high expectations for their children. I sometimes felt that my second-grade cousin spend more time on homework than I did when I was 6th grade in the US! Yet his parents and teachers didn’t think he worked hard enough.
Is it too strict in China? Or is it not strict enough in the USA? Maybe both are true.
1.Why did Ted come home with a letter last Friday?
A. Because the teacher wanted to visit his mother.
B. Because he did something wrong.
C. Because the teacher was happy with his progress.
D. Because the teacher thought he was too lazy.
2.If a student in the USA gets “OK” in his schoolwork, it means ________.
A. he gets top scores
B. he gets medium scores
C. he gets extremely bad scores
D. he gets the worst scores
3.American parents will be ________ when their children get a B-grade in their school.
A. excited B. sad C. angry D. happy
4.The underlined words “high expectations” in this passage means “________”.
A. 很高的待遇 B. 很多的自由 C. 很高的期望 D. 很多的关爱
5.The writer mainly wants to tell us ________.
A. the differences between Chinese education and American education
B. Chinese students are better than American students
C. American parents are not strict enough with their children
D. what’s the best way to educate child
书面表达
假设在最近的英语课上，大家对“Should children do volunteer work?”进行了讨论。有些人赞成，有些人反对。请根据以下表格写一份调查报告，并在最后陈述自己的观点并简单阐述理由。
ideas | agreement | disagreement | your idea |
reasons | 1. 能帮助自己以后获得理想的工作。 2. 在做自己喜欢的事情的同时也可以帮助他人。 | 1. 孩子们还太小无法照顾别人。 2. 学业压力已经够大无时间去做志愿者。 | … |
注意:
1. 短文词数70个左右，不包括开头部分。
2. 以下短语可供参考 get future dream job; at the same time; too much pressure;
too young to look after others
Should children do volunteer work?
Recently， students in our class had a discussion about whether children should do volunteer work.
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