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about America"s colonial (殖民地的) past before this summer.
But now Crole can talk a lot about the settlers (移民者), slavery (奴隶制) and the events that led up to the
American Revolution (美国独立战争). He learned about these subjects at a summer program at the College of
William and Mary, Virginia.
It is a 70-year-old program that gathers high school students from across the US to study early American
history.
"It"s been great and a lot of hard work," said Crole. "This is not a subject really taught in England, so I"m
learning a lot of new things."
The program meet from 8 am to 3 pm five days a week. It goes for three weeks. Students go to lectures
and read essays about the time period they are studying. They study history from the founding of Jamestown
through the American Revolution and the Civil War (美国内战).
As well as leaming about history in the classroom, students also take field trips to historical sites. They visit
Colonial Williamsburg, Jamestown and other sites around Virginia. They learn what life was like during that
time.
"We hope the students can really leam something about our early history," said Carolyn Sparks Whittenburg,
director of the program. " We offer the program to kids who love history. A total of 111 students were in the
program this summer, but we hope for more next year."
B. the Civil War
C. the American Revolution
D. American history
B. five days
C. three weeks
D. one month
B. Some students are not quite clear about America"s colonial past.
C. Students can take part in the summer program in their high schools.
D. The subject is taught outside the classroom rather than inside.
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试题【阅读理解。 Jason Crole studies in an American high school. As a native of London,】；主要考察你对日常生活类等知识点的理解。[详细]
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have never yet found the time? Far too many.
This is life, all right, but we do treat it like a rehearsal (排演) and, unhappily. we do miss so many of its
best moments.
We take johs to stay alive and provide homes for our families always making ourselves believe that this
style of life is merely a temporary (暂时的) state of affairs along the road to what we really want to do. Then,
at 60 or 65, we are suddenly presented with a clock and several grandchildren and we look back and realize
that all those years waiting for real life to come along were in fact real life.
In America they have a saying much laughed at by the English: "Have a nice day." They speak slowly and
seriously in their shops, hotels and sandwich bars. I think it is a wonderful phrase, reminding us, in effect, to
enjoy the moment.
How often do we say to ourselves, "I"ll take up horse-riding (or golf, or sailing) when I get a higher
position," only to do none of those things when I do get the higher position.
When I first became a reporter I knew a man who gave up a very well paid respectahle job at The Daily
Telegraph to go and work for a small weekly newspaper. At the time I was astonished by what appeared to
me to be his completely abnormal (反常的) mental state. How could anyone turn his back on Fleet Street in
central London for a small local area? I wanted to know.
Now I am a little older and possibly wiser, I see the sense in it. In Fleet Street the man was under
continual pressure. He lived in an unattractive London suburb and he spent much of his life sitting on Southern
Region trains.
B. keep on
C. try out
D. look for
B. he wanted to have more time to enjoy life
C. he would have more chances to make money
D. he liked travelling on Southern Region trains
B. Wait for Real Life
C. Value This Very Day
D. Get a Higher Position
Sam holds a special paintbrush in his mouth to paint. Mary Stadelhacher, Sam"s owner, said Sam loves
painting and can do it for hours." 2______. He paints his paintings with darker colors first and then moves
onto lighter ones," she said.
Mary, the owner of a dog service center, took in 6-year-old Sam four years ago. She came up with the
idea of teaching Sam to paint after seeing reports about animal painters." 3______. So I thought, why not a
dog?" Now the money from the dog"s art sales helps to keep the dog service center open.
"Sam"s paintings have been on show at New York galleries. 4______," Mary said.
"We even had one woman buy her dog one of Sam"s paintings as a birthday present."
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