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________.

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

1. 1.

   The author mentioned the typical high school in the first paragraph ___________

   1. A.
      to tell us what the typical high school is like in USA
   2. B.
      to present a sharp contrast with the experimental school, New Country
   3. C.
      to introduce the topic, New Country, of the passage
   4. D.
      to call on students to register in the typical high school
2. 2.

   The following statements about New Country are all true except________

   1. A.
      New Country students sit in an open environment that looks a lot like a typical
      office
   2. B.
      Students consult with "advisers", who "teach" in the traditional sense
   3. C.
      No bells in New Country, students choose how to spend their time
   4. D.
      No traditional classes, students work on projects they select themselves
3. 3.

   Compared with typical high school, New Country is well received for its_________

   1. A.
      high test scores
   2. B.
      alternative
   3. C.
      comfortable conditions
   4. D.
      teaching methods
4. 4.

   The passage mainly tells us __________

   1. A.
      experimental school gets rid of classes and teachers
   2. B.
      typical high school and experimental School
   3. C.
      new schools in future in America
   4. D.
      education reform in America

Like most other US college students, Eric Rogers knows that submitting a term paper taken off the Internet is plagiarism（抄袭）and cause for suspension（停学）or a failing grade．

  What about using a paragraph? “Just a paragraph,” he said．“Taking a paragraph and changing words．I’ve done that before; it wasn’t a big deal,” he decided finally．“As long as I can change it into my words, change a few, it’s not cheating．”

    Under the honor code he signed when he entered Duke University last year, it is．But for many college students, the once-clear lines that explain cheating have faded．Some colleges and universities have made use of sophisticated （精良的）search engines to ferret out cheats．But an increasing number are turning to something decidedly more low-tech: their honor codes．Some campuses are adopting codes for the first time．Others, among them Duke, admitting that their codes have existed mostly in name only, are rewriting and forcing them to buy．

    Cheating has become so common, experts say, that it often goes unreported and unpunished．Surveys show not only that there is more cheating these days but also that students and teachers alike have become more accepting of some practices once considered out of limits．One such survey was performed for the Centre for Academic Integrity, an organization based at Duke that helps create honor codes．In that survey, 27 percent of students questioned during the 2001—2002 academic year said that falsifying （伪造）laboratory data happened “often or very often” on campus．

    The new honor codes aim to punish more while also forcing students and faculty members to think about the kinds of offenses that are cheating．At large universities and small liberal art colleges alike, educators talk about restoring a “culture of honor”．

    “It’s a psychological effect: if people expect you to be honorable, you are more likely to respond with honorable behavior,” said Nannerl O．Keohane, the president of Duke．

    At Duke, a new “community standard” for academic honesty will take effect next fall．

    Under it, the staff will no longer have to proctor exams, but students will face punishment if they see cheating and do not report it．Factually members will have greater power to discipline first-time cheats, authority that the university hopes will encourage them to face offenders．

1．The writer of the passage _______．

A．is professor in the US college

B．advises college students not to cheat

C．is trying to find a way to prevent cheating

D．has done much investigation before writing

2．The underlined phrase “ferret out” in paragraph 3 probably means ____．

   A．praise            B．punish          C．discover         D．test

3．The honor codes ______．

A．are effective in dealing with cheats in colleges

B．have been widely used in most US college campuses

C．are high-tech products that are difficult to use

D．can help reduce the number of cheats on campus

4．Paragraph 4 tells us _____．

   A．some teachers neglect the students’ cheats on campus

B．cheating happens so often that the students who cheat are not punished

C．a survey was performed to know if cheating is common on campus

D．many students have broken the honor codes