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Early last Saturday morning,the doorbell rang so loudly that every one of my family was woken up.My husband went to open the door and a few minutes later he came back with a large parcel(包裹)in his hand.The parcel was for Tommy,our son,and it had arrived just in time.

After breakfast Tommy discovered the parcel,and he looked at the stamp on the parcel, “It’s from Uncle Bill,”he shouted excitedly.Even though Bill was in America,he had not forgotten Tommy’s birthday. “Mum,” suggested Tommy, “let’s open the parcel and see what birthday present Uncle Bill has posted to me.” “No,not now.” I stopped him firmly, saying, “Your birthday’s not until tomorrow.” “You should open it in the morning together with your other presents,” Tommy was really a good boy,and he promised not to open the parcel until the following day.

The next day,my husband was just as excited as Tommy when they discovered that there was an electric train set in the parcel. “Let’s go upstairs and put it together.” my husband said.

Tommy was with his father for about an hour but finally got tired of playing the toy train and went into the living-room to see the rest of his presents.

About lunch time,I came into the living-room. “Where is your father?” I asked, “I’ve been looking for him everywhere.”

“He is upstairs,Mum.” Tommy answered, “He put my train set together this morning and he has been playing with it ever since!”

“Oh, he will never change a bit,” I said, “boys will always be boys!”

1.the writer of this passage was a ______.

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A．man B．boy 　　 C．girl D．housewife

　　

2.What fact does the writer give us to show that Uncle Bill loved Tommy very much?

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A．The fact that Uncle Bill seldom remembered Tommy’s birthday.

B．The fact that he had never forgotten Tommy’s birthday even though he was far away from the boy.

C．The fact that he missed Tommy so much that he wrote to the boy every week.

D．The fact that he sometimes posted Tommy a nice present just before his birthday.

3.The sentence “Your birthday is not until tomorrow” means ______.

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A．Tomorrow is your birthday

B．Tomorrow won’t be your birthday

C．Your birthday is two days away

D．Your birthday is in two day’s time

4.Tommy ______ the toy train very much because he ______.

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A．didn’t like/got tired of it after playing if for an hour

B．loved/playing it together with his father for the whole morning

C．was not fond of/didn’t know how to put it together

D．didn’t like/had got several toy trains of the same kind on his last birthday

5.What did the writer really mean when she said “boys will always be boys?

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A．Boys will never become grown-ups.

B．Tommy’s father is still a young boy.

C．Tommy’s father still has the same interests and characters as a boy has.

D．Boys and grown-up men are all fond of playing toy trains.

Enter a typical high school, and the first thing you see is the front office， where the principal dwells and grades are stored. The front office also reinforces familiar hierarchy(等级制度): principal at the top, teachers in the middle, kids on the bottom, sitting with hands folded at their desks.
Now, imagine a school where the organizational structure is completely flat. At the New Country School in Henderson, Minn, there is no front office. Visitors are immediately embraced by an airy atrium that is the centerpiece of this one-room schoolhouse. And all around the room, 124 students sit at desks — real office desks — working at their own personal computers on their own projects.
When Dee Thomas and her colleagues got together 15 years ago to design a new high school, they knew there was one thing that had to go: The bell. "You don't go into your job in the morning and say, 'OK, for the first 45 minutes of my job, I'm going to do the math part.' And then a bell goes off, and you do the social history part of your job. You don't do that," Thomas said.
There are no teachers at New Country. Every few weeks, students must present projects they've been working on to the rest of the school community. To prepare for their presentations, they gather at tables in the middle of the school atrium and present their work to their "advisers."
Kids at New Country test better than their peers on the state tests and on the pre-college ACT. The school sends 90 percent of its graduates to college. But that doesn't tell the whole story. New Country struggles to keep its seniors from leaving. The school's senior project is demanding — 300 hours of work.
But for some students, New Country offers a rare alternative, a choice they can't find anywhere else. And the school is constantly visited by educators from around the world looking for new ideas. That's the foundation of efforts to reform American high schools today — that there's a need to experiment with an institution that is failing millions of students
【小题1】The author mentioned the typical high school in the first paragraph ___________.
A. to tell us what the typical high school is like in USA.
B. to present a sharp contrast with the experimental school, New Country.
C. to introduce the topic, New Country, of the passage.
D. to call on students to register in the typical high school
【小题2】The following statements about New Country are all true except________.

A．New Country students sit in an open environment that looks a lot like a typical office.

B．Students consult with "advisers", who "teach" in the traditional sense.

C．No bells in New Country, students choose how to spend their time.

D．No traditional classes, students work on projects they select themselves.

【小题3】Compared with typical high school, New Country is well received for its_________.

A．high test scores	B．alternative
C．comfortable conditions	D．teaching methods

【小题4】The passage mainly tells us __________.

A．experimental school gets rid of classes and teachers.

B．typical high school and experimental School.

C．new schools in future in America.

D．education reform in America.