We think that life in Chinese high school is an adventure in which we have to survive mountains of homework and exams. Yet would it be 61____ (surprise) if I tell you that high school life in the US is almost as stressful and demanding as it is in China?
In US high school, everything 62_____ (record) and graded，including your grades on quizzes，tests and final examinations. Failing 63_______ (turn) in your homework on time will directly affect your grade for a certain course. Perhaps contrary to 64_________ we used to think of the US high school students, they pay great attention to their 65________ (academy) performance to try to get into distinguished university. 66________, they’ll be disappointed after graduation from high school.
Like university students, US high school students have the 67_______ (free) to choose the courses that most interest 68__________. Even a ninth-grader can sit 69_________ the same classroom as 12th-graders. But this also means he or she has to work very hard, because the teacher will not treat him or her differently just because he or she is a few years 70_______ (young).
61. surprising 62. is recorded 63. to turn 64. what 65. academic
66.Otherwise 67. freedom 68. them 69. in 70. younge
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