Question

American schools are quite different from those in China. In America, at the beginning of the term, students must select their courses and teachers first. While in China students usually have no chances to select their courses and teachers.

Selecting is very important for your grades in America. So at the first term, don’t select too many courses, 74.or you’ll feel very nervous and it may influence your study. Then you have to ask for some teaching plans. There is some information about subjects, time arranging, marks and textbooks. At the same time, you must choose the teachers. Different teachers have different teaching methods. If the teacher is called “killer” by the last grade, many students will give up choosing him. Because this kind of teacher will leave too much homework, too many exams and give too low grades.
There is another thing after you select the course and the teacher. How to buy textbooks makes each student feel hard. The textbooks in America are very expensive. Each copy is about $30～50. In order to save money, many students buy some used textbooks, and some students usually borrow textbooks from the school library. You must get enough ready before class. In class, discussing is very important. 75. 老師鼓勵你提出問題或展示你自己的觀點。They don’t usually ask you to sit well. Instead they allow you to sit or stand everywhere you like. They don’t give you much homework to do. You can learn some knowledge and do exercises by yourself. So in American schools, you must do almost all things yourself.
根據文章內容，補全71、72句中所缺單詞、短語或句子。
小題1: At the beginning of the new term, American students have to ask for some teaching plans and get their textbooks ready besides ____________________.
小題2: The teacher____________________will always leave too much homework, too many exams and give too low grades.
小題3: 根據文章內容回答問題。
Why do many students in America buy used textbooks ?
小題4: 請將文中黑體字譯成漢語。
小題5: 請將劃線句子譯成英語。

Answer 1

小題1:selecting(their/the)course(s)and(the)teacher(s).
小題1: called/ named killer/who is called/named killer
小題1: Because the textbooks in America are very expensive./ Because they want to save money./ (In order )to save money.
小題1: 否則你會感覺很緊張并且有可能影響你的學習。
小題1:The teacher encourages you to ask/ raise questions or show your own opinions/ ideas.

【主旨大意】文章介紹了美國學校教育與中國的不同之處：學期初學生們可以自由選擇課程和教師，而中國的學生卻不能。另外美國的學生經常使用二手教科書或從圖書館里借書，
小題1:由文章第一段可以看出美國的學生可以自由選擇科目和教師，而教學計劃必須向老師索取，書籍必須自備。
小題1:文章第二段后邊的兩句話“If the teacher is called “killer” by the last grade,…Because this kind of teacher will leave too much homework, too many exams and give too low grades.”可以看出那些留作業多的老師被稱作“殺手(killer)”。
小題1:由文章的第三段第三句話“The textbooks in America are very expensive.”可以看出學生們買二手書是“因為在美國教科書太貴了”
小題1:feel是系動詞，feel nervous意為“感到緊張”， 動詞influence，意為“影響”；
小題1:encourage sb. to do sth.意為“鼓勵某人干某事”；show sth.意為“展示……”；這是由or連接的并列句。