Weekday mornings are very busy for US middle school students. When your school doesn’t have a bus, and you live too far away to walk, you need a carpool (拼车). A carpool is a group of people sharing the responsibility (责任) of driving 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 mom 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) 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 clock 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. Parents take turns to drive their kids to school.

B. Parents drive kids to schools on their way to work.

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

D. Kids drive their own cars to school.

2. What can students learn from a carpool?

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

C. What to do with parents. D. Real teamwork.

3.Which of the following is TRUE?

A. If kids live far away from school, they are always late for school.

B. US children 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 study in a carpool.

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Susan had long blonde hair and big blue eyes.So did most of the other________in her school class,which troubled her a lot.“I look like everyone else!I’m not special!I’m bored!”Susan_______to her mother.

She decided to try to make herself look________.She painted big pink spots on her neck and when she didn’t get attention,she stuck a long plastic nose on top of her real nose.Nobody noticed that,_______.She took ink(墨水)and

poured it all over her________.She wore clown(小丑)clothes to school and stuck leaves in her ears.________no matter what she did,she still didn’t get any________and nobody thought she was special.

One morning her________went to wake her up and told her to get ready for school.She made Susan________the ink out of her hair and clean her neck.“I’m not going to school________!I’m bored!”She buried(埋葬)her head________the quilt and cried.

“Susan,”her mother said,“you are different.You are unique(独一无二)and special.________in the world looks just like you.Some people have blonde hair like you and some have blue eyes like you,but none of them has your smile or the twinkle in your eyes or your pink face.Nobody laughs like you,either.Now________and get ready for school.”

Susan went to school that day and looked at all the other kids in her class.“Mom was________.Nobody looks just like me.”Susan said.“I am special.I am unique and I am not________!”

1.

A.children

B.boys

C.men

D.women

2.

A.complained

B.listened

C.talked

D.spoke

3.

A.beautiful

B.simple

C.different

D.happy

4.

A.too

B.either

C.also

D.neither

5.

A.neck

B.nose

C.eyes

D.hair

6.

A.Though

B.So

C.But

D.And

7.

A.attention

B.help

C.prize

D.answer

8.

A.father

B.mother

C.sister

D.brother

9.

A.pull

B.wash

C.throw

D.turn

10.

A.tomorrow

B.next week

C.next year

D.today

11.

A.under

B.on

C.before

D.beside

12.

A.Everybody

B.Somebody

C.Nobody

D.Anybody

13.

A.get up

B.get off

C.put up

D.put off

14.

A.wrong

B.right

C.special

D.common

15.

A.moved

B.interested

C.tired

D.bored

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