As a student, you must be excited to know something about American school students. In fact, just like in China, in the United States, high school is usually divided into two periods; the first two or three years are called “junior high school” and the other is “senior high school”.
In China, children enjoy free education of nine years, but in the United States, the students enjoy free education(which will be started when they are about 6 years old) until they are 18 years old. As a result of the free education system (制度), American children have little difficulty in going to senior high school.
American high school students can take part in a lot of activities outside the classroom. The activities are organized by the school, such as joining a music group or a sports team. Certainly, just like us students in China, American students have to work hard in order to get good marks if they want to go to a good university. They take classes in all kinds of subjects all through the high school period. And students with low marks at the end of a school year are still allowed to go on to the next grade.
In American high schools, there is fighting or hurting or other kinds of bad behaviors. So children who want to go to university are often sent to suburban (郊区的) high schools, where most students want to go to university and the atmosphere (氛围) is quite different.
21. This passage mainly tells us about ________.
A. education of Chinese middle school B. American free education
C. education of American high school D. how to get into universities in America
22. Which of the following statements is NOT true?
A. They can be allowed to join the next grade even if they fail the school-year exam.
B. Those who get good marks can go to a good university.
C. American students can take all kinds of subjects during the high school period.
D. The time of free education in China is longer than that in America.
23. The writer of the passage tells us the truth that ________.
A .the atmosphere in high schools is not good
B. suburban high schools are good places for learning
C. none of the schools in cities are good for learning
D. all the American students want to go to university