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To most of us,school means classes,teachers,schedules,grades,and tests.But for the children at Sudbury Valley School in Massachusetts,school is very different. Firstly,there are no lessons.All the children,aged between 4 and 19,do whatever they want.There are no teachers--only "staff members".The idea behind this is that you do not need to make children learn,because children want to learn anyway."You do not need to say to a three yearold,'Go explore your environment.'You can't stop them!" says Daniel Greenberg,a founder of the school."But if you make children do what you want all day,they will lose all taste for learning." At Sudbury Valley School,you will permit children to talk,read,paint,cook,work on computers,study French,play the piano,climb trees or just run around.Two boys spent three years just fishing! The other way that Sudbury Valley School is different is that the children can decide the rules.Every week,there is a school meeting where both children and staff have one vote each--even the fouryearolds.They decide the school rules,how to spend the school budget,and even which staff they want and do not want any more. When the school first opened in 1968,people said it would never work.But today,the school has 200 students,and 80%of its students go on to college. Even the two boys who went fishing all the time have successful careers today.One of them is a musician and the other is a computer scientist. What does Daniel Greenberg say about threeyearolds? A) They love learning. B) They are very naughty. C) They want to be outside all the time. D) They are too young to learn anything.
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A


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Some weird , wild and wonderful stories color1ed the news in 2010:  A Copenhagen bus company has put "love seats" on 103 of its vehicles for people looking for a partner."Even love at first sight is possible on the bus," said a spokesman for the British  Arriva company to explain the two seats on each bus that are covered in red cloth and a "love seat" sign.  Shoppers at an international luxury  fair in Verona, Italy, found a cell-phone-equipped golden coffin among the items on display.The phones will help "the dead" contact  s if they have been buried alive by mistake.  A man in New York came up with a disarming way to set off his latest bank heist, approaching the clerk's window with a large bunch of flowers and handing over a hold-up note saying "give me the money!"   An Englishman who lost all his legs and arms in an electrical accident successfully swam across the Channel, a challenge he had been preparing for two years.The whole cost is 400 dollars.  A set of artificial teeth made for Britain's war-time prime minister Winston Churchill known as "the teeth that saved the world" sold for nearly 18,000 pounds (21,500 euros,  24,000 dollars) at auction .  A British woman caused an Internet hate campaign after she was caught on camera dumping  a cat in a rubbish bin.She was fined 250 pounds (400 dollars, 280 euros) after pleading guilty.  The BBC apologized completely and without any doubts after a radio presenter jokingly announced that Queen Elizabeth II had died.  Two Australian men needing surgery after shooting each other in the buttocks  during a drinking session to see if it would hurt were charged 400 dollars separately.   A Kuwaiti MP  proposed state-aid for male citizens to take second wives, in a bid to reduce the large number of unmarried women in the state. Who had to pay 400 dollars for the surgery? A) A British woman who dumped a cat in a rubbish bin. B) One who bought Winston Churchill's artificial teeth. C) One of the Australian men who shot each other for the pain test. D) An Englishman crossing the Channel without legs and arms.
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C


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Searching the Internet may help middle-aged and older adults keep their memories sharp,US researchers said. Researchers at the University of California, Los Angeles ,studied people doing web searches by recording their brain activity. "What we saw was people who had Internet experience used more of their brain during the search,"Dr.Gary Small, a UCLA expert on aging, said,"This suggests that just searching on the Internet may train the brain and that it may keep it active and healthy." "This is the first time anyone has simulated an Internet search task while scanning the brain,"Small said. His team studied 24 normal volunteers between the ages of 55 and 76. Half were experienced at searching the Internet and the other half had no web experience. However, the two groups were similar in age, gender and education. Both groups were asked to do Internet searches and book reading tasks while their brain activity was monitored. "We found that in the book reading task, the visual cortex-- the part of the brain that controls reading and language -- was activated,"Small said,"In doing the Internet search task, there was much greater activity, but only in the Internet-savvy group." He said it appears that people who are familiar with the Internet can engage in much deeper level of brain activity. Activities that keep the brain engaged can preserve brain health and thinking ability. Small thinks learning to do Internet searches may be one of those activities. According to the passage, we can learn that  _  . A) reading books keeps the brain more engaged B) searching the web keeps the brain more engaged C) watching TV keeps the brain more engaged D) chatting online keeps the brain more engaged
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B