American schools ale looking for ways to save money on bus transport because of high fuel（燃料）prices．More children may have to walk，ride their bikes or find other ways to get to school．Soon，as another effect of the high prices，they may not have to go to school as often as before．Some schools are changing to a four-day week．That means longer days instead of the traditional Monday to Friday timetable．Beginning ill autumn，students in the Maccray school district（区域）in Minnesota will be in school from Tuesday to Friday Each school day will be sixty-five minutes longer．

In Custer，South Dakota，students have been going to school from Monday to Thursday since 1995．Superintendent（教育主管）Tim Creal said the change has saved about one million just over the past eight years．He has noticed other advantages，too．Students have more time to study．And activities that used to interfere with（干扰）classes are now held on non．school days．He said that in the future，an increase in online classes could make it possible to require even fewer days in school．High fuel prices are driving college students to take more online classes．In some states，high school students can take them，too．

1．Why do most American students have to go to school by bike or on foot?

2．How many days will students in Minnesota go to school every week from this autumn on?

3．What may American students do to save money in the future?

4．Is the change in Custer good or not? Why?

5．What is the main idea of the passage?

Tom and his father, Mr. Smith, always go out for a walk after supper every day. After that, he does his homework and watches TV for half an hour. Then he goes to bed. Now Tom and his father are taking a walk along the road. It begins to rain. Tom wants to run for home. But his father says very slowly, “Don’t run. Isn’t it raining in front of you?”

1. 1.

   Who’s Mr. Smith? ________________.

2. 2.

   What’re Tom and Mr. Smith doing? _______________.

3. 3.

   Is Tom a student? ___________________.

4. 4.

   Why doesn’t Mr. Smith want to run?_____________________.

5. 5.

   Is Mr. Smith right? ____________________________.

Mike didn't live too far away from school. He liked to ____ to school every day. When it rained, like many _____ boys, Mike liked playing in the water. One afternoon, when the boy came______, he was all wet. His mother became very ___ and said, “Don’t play in the water after school.” The next day he was very ____ again, and his mother became ___ angrier. "I'll tell your father ___ you go to play in the water again," she said. The third day the boy was dry when he came ___ from school. "You are a ____ boy today,” his mother said. “You didn't play in the water.”

? "No," Mike answered. "Because there were _____ older boys in the water, I couldn't play in it.”????

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