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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 go into your job in the morning and say, OK, for the first 45 minutes of my job, Im going to do the math part. And then a bell goes off, and you do the social history part of your job. You don do that, Thomas said.
There are no teachers at New Country. Every few weeks, students must present projects theyve 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 tell the whole story. New Country struggles to keep its seniors from leaving. The schools senior project is demanding — 300 hours of work.
But for some students, New Country offers a rare alternative, a choice they can find anywhere else. And the school is constantly visited by educators from around the world looking for new ideas. Thats the foundation of efforts to reform American high schools today — that theres 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.A．New Country students sit in an open environment that looks a lot like a typical
office.B．Students consult with advisers, who teach in the traditional sense.C．No bells in New Country, students choose how to spend their time.D．No traditional classes, students work on projects they select themselves.【小题3】Compared with typical high school, New Country is well received for its.A．high test scoresB．alternativeC．comfortable conditionsD．teaching methods【小题4】The passage mainly tells us .A．experimental school gets rid of classes and teachers.B．typical high school and experimental School.C．new schools in future in America.D．education reform in America.C
答案：
(答案→)C
解析：文章向我们讲述了一个没有单独的教室也没有老师的特殊学校。
【小题1】推理题。作者首先提出the typical high school就是为了引出文章的中心New Country。
【小题2】推理题。根据第4段最后一句they gather at tables in the middle of the school atrium and present their work to their advisers. 并没有提出这些advisers要教他们。
【小题3】细节题。根据文章最后一段第一行But for some students, New Country offers a rare alternative, a choice they can find anywhere else.可知B正确。
【小题4】主旨大意题。通读全文可知文章讲述了一个没有分开的教室与老师的学校。
