hing question that thoughtful parents all over the world are asking themselves in the fast-moving time：“How Can one prepare today's child for a tomorrow that one can neither predict nor understand？”
　　词汇：
　　privileged adj.享有特权的
　　elite n.精英，精华
　　curricula n.课程
　　underlying adj.潜在的
　　reason v.推理
　　1.Which of the following best states the goal of American education？
　　A）To teach every learner some practical skills.
　　B）To provide every learner with rich knowledge.
　　C）To give every student the opportunity to fully develop his／her ability.
　　D）To train every student to be a responsible citizen.
　　2.It is implied in the passage that
　　A）all high-school students take the same courses.
　　B）every high？school student must take some practical ability training courses.
　　C）every public school offers the same academic subjects.
　　D）the subjects every student takes may vary.
　　3.American schools place great emphasis on the learner's
　　A）enrichment of knowledge.
　　B）accumulation of facts.
　　C）acquisition of the ability to be creative.
　　D）acquisition of the ability to work with his hands.
　　4.According to the passage，American education meets the needs of all the following
　　EXCEPT
　　A）the brightest students.
　　B）the slow students.
　　C）the students from foreign countries.
　　D）the immigrants.
　　5. Which of the following best states the feature of American education that makes it different from education in other countries？
　　A）The large number of its schools.
　　B）The variety of the courses offered in its schools.
　　C）Its special consideration given to immigrants.
　　D）Its underlying goal to develop every child's abilities to the fullest extent
　　第2篇
　　Common Problems， Common Solutions
　　The chances are that you made up your mind about smoking a long time ago —— and decided it's not for you.
　　The chances are equally good that you know a lot of smokers —— there are， after all about 60 million of them， work with them， and get along with them very well.
　　And finally it's a pretty safe bet that you're open-minded and interested in all the various issues about smokers and nonsmokers —— or you wouldn't be reading this.
　　And those three things make you incredibly important today.
　　Because they mean that yours is the voice —— not the smoker's and not the anti-smoker's ——that will determine how much of society's efforts should go into building walls that separate us and how much into the search for solutions that bring us together.
　　For one tragic result of the emphasis on building walls is the diversion of millions of dollars from scientific research on the causes and cures of diseases which， when all is said and done， still strike the nonsmoker as well as the smoker. One prominent he