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　　Britain’s smallest school was closed down because its only pupil failed to turn up for class, a famous British newspaper reported in May．

　　The newspaper said the six year old girl’s parents were unhappy with a teacher who just got the new job to teach the only pupil．

　　The school had been closed for the last nine months after its former(前任的) teacher retired(退休)and the only other pupil moved on to a secondary school．The new teacher, Ms．Puckey, was to start teaching the girl and reopen the school．

　　But the girl’s mother is keeping her daughter at home．“I was not pleased with the new teacher, ” the mother said．“I had told the old teacher as far back as last September that if Ms．Puckey got the job, my children would not be going to school．”

　　The school lies on an island off the northeast coast of Scotland．Although there was only one pupil, the school is very good in many ways and has a headmaster, three computers, a television and an art room as well as a school house with three bedrooms．

(1)

The reading is about ________．
[　　]
A．	the smallest school that was closed down
B．	the only pupil in the smallest school
C．	the new teacher and her teaching
D．	the old teacher who just retired

(2)

The phrase“turn up” in the first paragraph means ________．
[　　]
A．	pass an exam
B．	go to school
C．	pay money
D．	hand in homework

(3)

From the reading we can know that the school ________．
[　　]
A．	is too far for the students
B．	does not have enough teachers
C．	does not have many pupils
D．	is new but small

(4)

Before the school was closed down ________．
[　　]
A．	the girl’s mother wanted to teach her daughter at home
B．	the only pupil had to move to a secondary school
C．	a famous newspaper had written something about it
D．	the girl’s mother had a talk to the former teacher

(5)

The reading doesn’t say but we can infer(推断)that ________．
[　　]
A．	the girl’s mother had only one child
B．	the new teacher was not kind to the girl
C．	the old teacher was fit to teach the girl
D．	the parents were unhappy with the school

答案：1．A;2．B;3．C;4．D;5．C;
解析：

(1)	综合全文内容，短文的主题是说这所“最小的学校”。
(2)	此题一是对“fail to do…”(没/不能做……)的理解，二是对下文的“the girl’s mother is keeping her daughter at home．”的呼应。
(3)	文中讲学校只有一个学生，而且还退了学，而此前的另一个学生“moved on to a secondary school”。
(4)	依据文中第四段“I had told the old teacher as far back as last September…”而判断应选D项。
(5)	关键是对短文后三段内容的理解：新老师教课后，小姑娘的妈妈不让女儿再去学校，而且在新老师上任之前就给原来的老师打电话表示了这个意向。尽管学校有很好的条件和设备，最终还是不去了。都说明，原来的老师更适合小女孩。

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