Who are the top students in the world, do you know? Last week the Organization for Economic Cooperation Development（经济合作与发展组织）picked the best students in the world．They are Finnish（芬兰的）．The OECD gave a test to 280,000 15-year-old students from more than 40 countries and regions（地区）last year．The OECD wanted to know how well students were doing at school．

Finnish students were No.1 in the reading test and second in maths after Hong Kong students．Those from Japan and Finland were top in science．In the problem solving, Finnish students came second to those from South Korea．The test also showed Finland had more top students than the other countries．

Finns（芬兰人）of your age have done a really good job but don't have a sense of envy．You can learn from them．Most Finnish students make good use of the Internet．Of course not for computer games, but for doing more exercises and finding out more information．

Libraries are also important．Finland spends a lot of money on them．Many students have a free card．They read for at least one or two hours a day．

What do you usually do on the Internet? How often do you go to libraries?

1．Students from which country or region did best in the reading test?

A．South Korea．        B．Hong Kong．        C．Finland．          D．Japan．

2．Which of the following is NOT true?

A．Hong Kong students were No.1 in maths．

B．Finnish students were the first of all the tests．

C．Finnish students did well in the problem solving．

D．Japanese students were top in science．

3．From this passage we know that             ．

A．the test can make the students lose their interest in learning

B．the test is designed to find out good ways to use the Internet

C．it's hard to tell who the best students in the world are

D．Finnish students make better use of the Internet and libraries

On very cold winter days , a group of Japanese children travelled a long way and arrived at a small island where nobody lived. After setting up a camp, they caught fish in the sea, and walked on the snow to find firewood , wild fruit and fresh water. Then they made a fire to do some cooking. They were not homeless children or modern Robinson. They were all pupils from a primary school and campers of special “ hardship (艰苦) camp”.
Every year primary and middle schools in Japan organize such camps to train the children’s spirit of bearing (忍受) hardship. Such places as thick forests and far-off mountains are chosen as camp places.
The Japanese education circles usually think it necessary to give children chances of suffering hardships. Children in Japan now may hardly find times of hardships, because of the rapid growth of national economy and improvement in the people’s living conditions. The experts think that such hardship camps can help children learn to live and develop in the struggle against nature in modern society.
It’s said that such hardship camps are warmly accepted by both Japanese school children and their parents.
【小题1】Many Japanese children set up camps in far-off mountains or forests to ____________.