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  A British sociologist has advanced the theory that many working-class children are unsuccessful at school because of the nature of their language. They use what he terms a “restricted” code of speech, whereas most teachers use an“elaborated” code, which is familiar to middle-class children.

　　

　　Working-class language is a language of personal experience and direct command, rather than rationalization and distinction between subtleties. In school, however, the latter abilities are demanded of children. Middle-class children, who have been brought up in such a way as to enable them to respond to argument and reasoning, are able to cope with the classroom situation much better than their teacher's saying.

　　So it seems that working-class children fail to take full advantage of the educational system, not because they are less bright than middle-class children, but because the language of the classroom is alien to them.

(1) How is working-class said to differ from middle-class language?

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A．Working-class language is poor and limited.

B．Working-class language is not good for children.

C．Working-class language is easy to learn.

D．Working-class language is difficult to understand.

(2) What advantage do middle-class children have over working-class children at school?

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A．Middle-class children can do much better in the classroom.

B．Middle-class children can't understand what teacher said.

C．Middle-class children are cleverer than working-class children.

D．Teachers care more about middle-class children.

(3) Why is the language of the classroom alien to working-class children?

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A．Because teachers' language is not easy to learn.

B．Because teachers are middle-class people.

C．Because teachers' language is close to the middle-class language.

D．Because working-class children are less bright.

(4) Why do middle-class children seem to be more intelligent than working-class children?

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A．Because their parents are more strict with them.

B．Because they have been brought up by their parents.

C．Because working-class children are not working hard.

D．Because they can understand their teachers better.

(5) How might the gap between working-class children and their teachers be narrowed?

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A．Working-class children should be kept away from their families.

B．Teachers should learn the working-class language.

C．Both the working-class children and their teachers should learn from each other.

D．Working-class parents should receive more education.

　　Since many of you are planning to study at a college or university in this country, you may be curious to know what you usually do in a typical week, how you can get along with your fellow students, and so on. These are the questions I want to discuss with you today.

　　First, let's talk about what your weekly schedule will look like. No matter what your major may be, you can expect to spend between four and six hours a week for each class attending lectures. Lectures are usually in very large rooms because some courses such as introduction to sociology or economics often have as many as two or three hundred students, especially at large universities. In lectures, it's very important for you to take notes on what the professor says because the information in a lecture is often different from the information in your textbooks. Also, you can expect to have exam questions based on the lectures. So it isn't enough to just read your textbooks; you have to attend lectures as well. In a typical week you will also have a couple of hours of discussion for every class you take. The discussion section is a small group meeting usually with fewer than thirty students where you can ask questions about the lectures, the reading, and the homework. In large universities, graduate students, called teaching assistants, usually direct discussion sections.

　　If your major is chemistry, or physics, or another science, you'll also have to spend several hours a week in the lab, or laboratory, doing experiments. This means that science majors spend more time in the classroom than nonscience majors do. On the other hand, people who major in subjects like literature or history usually have to read and write more than science majors do.

(1)The main purpose of this text is ________.

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A．to help the students to learn about university life

B．to persuade the students to attend lectures

C．to encourage the students to take part in discussions

D．to advise the students to choose proper majors

(2)We can learn from the passage that university professors ________.

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A．spend about 5 hours on lectures each week

B．must join the students in the discussion sections

C．prefer to use textbooks in their lectures

D．require the students to read beyond the textbooks

(3)A discussion section does NOT include ________.

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A．working under the guidance of university professors

B．talking over what the students have read about the courses

C．discussing the problems related to the students' homework

D．raising questions about what a professor has said in a lecture

(4)According to the author, science majors ________.

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A．have to work harder than non-science majors

B．spend less time on their studies than non-science majors

C．consider experiments more important than discussions

D．read and write less than non-science majors