3.The year 1827 marks the ____.

A)enactment of the first state?wide public high?school law　

B)founding of the Latin Grammar School in Boston

C)establishment of the English classical School in Boston

D)year when Massachusetts made free public education compulsory after the eighth grade　

2.It is the opinion of the author that the academy,compared with the public high school,was ____.

A)obviously academically better

B)more discriminatory in student selection

C)coeducational

D)not generally considered as a public institution

1.According to the passage,which of the following sequences indicates the order in which the schools developed?

A)Latin grammar school,public high school,academy.

B)Latin grammar school,academy,public high school.

C)Public high school,Latin grammar school,academy.

D)Public high school,academy,Latin grammar school.

20.With regard to marriage in Britain,present?day girls differ from former ?time girls in ____.

A)the right marryB)more parental support

C)choosing husbandsD)social position　

第二套

A

The three main types of secondary education in the United States have been provided by the Latin grammar school,the academy,and the public high school.The first of these was a colonial institution.It began in New England with the establish ment in 1635 of the Boston Free Latin School.The curriculum(课程) consisted mainly of the classical languages,and the purpose of this kind of school was the preparation of boys for college,where most of them would be fitted for the ministry.

The academy began in the early 1750’s with Benjamin Franklin’s school in Philadelphia, which later became the University of Pennsylvania. It extended generally to about the middle nineteeth century,except in the southern states where the public high school was late in developing and where the academy continued to be a principal means of secondary education even after 1900.The academy was open to girls as well as to boys,and it provided a wider curriculum than what the Latin grammar school had furnished.It was designed not only as a preparation for college but also for practical life in commercial and business activities.Although its wide educational values are evident and are recognized as important contributions to secondary education in this country,the academy has never been considered a public institution as the public high school has come to be.

The public high school had its origin in Massachusetts in 1821 when the English Classical School was established in Boston.In 1827,the state enacted(制定)the first state?wide public high?school law in the United States.By 1840,there were perhaps a dozen public high schools in Massachusetts and many in other eastern states by 1850,they could also be found in many other states.Just as the curriculum of the academy grew out of that of the Latin grammar school,the curriculum of the public high school developed out of that of the academy.The public high school in the United States is a repudiation(推翻) of the aristocratic(贵族的)and selective principle of the European educational tradition.Since 1890,enrollments( 入学)in secondary schools,mainly public high schools,have practically doubled in this country every ten years.

19.What is true concerning the book ?Pride and Prejudice??

A)It is the best book on marriage.

B)It is a handbook of marriage.

C)It gives quite some idea of English social life in the past.

D)It provides a lot of information of former?time wealthy families.

18.Everything is decided in a family ____.

A)by the coupleB)with the help of their parents

C)by brothers and sistersD)with the help of aunts and uncles

17.For an English family,the husband’s duty is ____.

A)supporting the family while the wife is financial　

B)defending the family while the wife is running the home

C)financial while the wife is running the home　

D)independent while the wife is dependent

16.What does the author mean by “Family is of course an elastic word”?

A)Different families have different ways of life.

B)Different definitions could be given to the word.

C)Different nations have different families.

D)Different times produce different families.

15.Which of the following questions best summaries the main idea of the whole passage?

A)How does the immune system attack the flu virus?

B)How does the immune system function in our body?

C)How do the lymphocytes work in our body?

D)What is the so?called immune system?

D

“Family” is of course an elastic word.But when British people say that their society is based on family life,they are thinking of “family” in its narrow,peculiarly European sense of mother,father and children living together alone in their own house as an economic and social unit.Thus,every British marriage indicates the beginning of a new and independent family-hence the tremendous importance of marriage in British life.For both the man and the woman,marriage means leaving one’s parents and starting one’s own life.The man’s first duty will then be to his wife,and the wife’s to her husband.He will be entirely responsible for her financial support,her the wife’s parents nor the husband’s,nor their brothers or sisters,aunts or uncles,have any right to interfere with them-they are their own masters.

Readers of novels like Jane Austen’s ?Pride and Prejudice? will know that in former times marriage among wealthy families were arranged by the girl’s parents, that is,it was the parents’ duty to find a suitable husband for their daughter, preferably a rich one, and by skillful encouragement to lead him eventually to ask their permission to marry her.Until that time,the girl was protected and maintained in the parents’ home,and the financial relief of getting rid of her could be seen in their giving the newly married pair a sum of money called a dowry. It is very different today.Most girls of today get a job when they leave school and become financially independent before their marriage.This has had two results.A girl chooses her own husband,and she gets no dowry.

14.Which of the following can NOT be detected by T cells?

A)Thymus. B)Transplants.C)Cancer cells.D)Healthy cells.