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Most Americans start to school at the age of five when they enter kindergarten(幼儿园).Children do not really study at this time. They only attend for half the day and learn what school is like.
Children attend elementary school(小学) for the next six years. They learn to read and write and work with numbers. They also study the world and its people.
After they leave elementary school, children go to junior high school for three years and senior high school (高中) for another three years. This is called secondary education (中等教育). In some places, the children go to elementary school for eight years and high school for four. In all, elementary and secondary education together take twelve years to complete (完全) excluding(不包括) kindergarten.
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1. The elementary and secondary education together take the children ______ to complete in the USA.
A. thirteen years B. fourteen years
C. twelve years D. eleven years
2. Most American children enter kindergarten ______.
A. at the age of five years old B. to study two years
C. to learn science D. about two years old
3. In elementary they should stay there ______.
A. for six years B. for three years
C. for another three years D. to study hard
4. Children should study how to ______.
A. act B. become an astronaut
C. read and write D. read, write and work with numbers
5. Some American children have their elementary school education for ______.
A. five years B. four years
C. eight years D.seven years
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| Maria Gomez was born in Peru (秘鲁). She grew up in a small village. She went to school when she was six years old. She went to an elementary school (小学), but she didn't 1 to high school. Her family was very 2 and she had to go to work when she was thirteen years old. She worked in a shoe factory. When Maria was seventeen years old, her family 3 to the United States. First they lied in Los Angeles, and then they moved to San Francisco. When Maria 4 to the United States, she was not very happy. She missed her friends in Peru, and she couldn't 5 a word of English. She began to study English at night, 6 work in a factory during the day. Maria studied very hard, and now she speaks English well. She's 7 at night, but now she's studying typing. She wants to 8 a secretary (秘书). Maria still misses her friends in Peru. But she's very happy now, and she hopes she will have a good future in the new country. | ||||
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teachers. But she really wasn't slow at all. She just didn't understand the language used in the classroom. Her
problem was that she didn't speak English. So she left school after the fourth grade.
When Guadalupe grew up, married (结婚), and had children of her own, she knew that her children were
clever. But some of their teachers didn't think so. The children were having trouble in school because they
didn't speak English. Mrs Quintanilla was angry. She didn't want people to think that her children were slow
learners. So she decided to learn English herself as a way of helping them. She practised English. She looked
up words in the dictionary. She asked the school headmaster to let her sit in on classes. It wasn't easy, but
she passed all her exams. She said that many of the other students helped her.
Mrs Quintanilla has helped her children with their lessons. Her two sons have won success (成功). One is
a teacher, and the other is a doctor. Her youngest child, a daughter, is studying in a university (大学).
B. because she wasn't clever
C. because she stayed at home
D. because she didn't speak English
B. have trouble playing football
C. often write a diary
D. grow up to be teachers
B. Guadalupe left school after the fourth grade.
C. Guadalupe had three children.
D. Her two sons won success.
B. the problem of slow learning
C. going to a university
D. Mrs. Quintanilla's success