1. Compared with the academic courses more than a hundred years ago, the academic courses now___________.
A) include some extra-curricular activities
B) focus more on education of social support
C) demand students' more contribution of time
D) remain more or less what they used to be
2. The researches by the commission mentioned in the passage are most concerned about
A) the time attributed to academic leaming
B) the components of school education
C) the changes in education in the recent century
D) the fashion of education management
3. As it is mentioned in che passage. schools in the United States do the following except________.
A) provide important outside-academic activities
B) serve social units such as family and community
C) arrange six-hour teaching and leaming every day
D) have competition with schools of other countries
4. American students differ from those in Japan. Germany in that_____________.
A)they stay at school for a shorter time every day
B) they do not leam as much as their counterparts abroad
C) they devote less time to academic learning
D) they earn a high school diploma more easily
5. Executive director of the commission Milton Goldberg would most probably agree that_______.
A) what the education reform advocates have done is not good enough
B) they time of school day and school year should be extended
C) visiting museums can improve students' academic learning ability
D) social support and extra-curricular activities should be cancelled