5.It is implied but not stated in the passage that ____.

A)European educational systems are not good

B)As high schools developed in the united states,the decision was made to make them responsible to people from all classes of socitety.

C)There was an aristocratic and selective principle in the European educaional tradition

D)public high schools in the United States embraced the European educational tradition

B

In the eighteenth-century one of the first modern economists,Adam Smith, thought that the “whole annual produce of the land and labour of every country” provided revenue to “three different orders of people:those who live by rent,those who live by wages,and those who live by profit”.Each successive stage of the industrial revolution, however,made the social structure more complicated.

Many intermediate groups grew up during the nineteenth century between the upper middle class and the working class.There were small-scale industrialists as we ll as large ones,small shopkeepers and tradesmen,officials and salaried employees,skilled and unskilled workers,and professional men such as doctors and teachers. Farmers and peasants continued in all countries as independent groups.

During the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries the possession of wealth inevitably affected a person’s social position.Intelligent industrialists with initiative made fortunes by their wits which lifted them into an economic group far higher than that of their working-class parents.But they lacked social training of the upper class,who despised them as the “new rich.”

They often sent their sons and daughters to special school to acquire soical training.Here their children,mixed with the children of the upper classes,were accepted by them,and very often found marriage partners from among them.In the same way,a thrifty,hardworking labourer,though not clever himself,might save for his son enough to pay for an extended secondary school education in the hope that he would move in a “white?collar”occupation,carrying with it a higher salary and a move up in the social scale.

In the twentieth century the increased taxation of higher incomes,the growth of the social services,and the wider development of educational opportunity have considerably altered the social outlook.The upper classes no longer are the sole, or even the main possessors of wealth,power and education,though inherited social position still carries considerable prestige.

4.One can probably infer from his article that “Latin grammar school”refers to ____.

A)the Boston Free Latin School

B)all the elementary schools in the United States

C)schools which taught Latin,exclusive of all other subjects

D)a number of schools which developed in New England

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.