《2025年作业本浙江教育出版社九年级英语上册外研版》

Ⅲ. Read the passage, choose the best answers and answer the question.
What is school for? It's an easy question, but a poll in the USA shows people have different ideas on school. The poll is called the Public's Attitudes toward the Public Schools. It is from a worldwide group of teachers called PDK International. PDK asked some Americans to name the biggest purpose of school. Nearly 45 percent of the people said the main goal was to prepare students for exams. Around a quarter of the people said it was to get kids ready to get a job. Just over 26 percent of the Americans said the biggest reason for starting a school was to teach children about citizenship(公民权).
Joshua Starr, CEO of PDK, said the poll questioned whether schools were doing the right thing, and if they were, "what the public wants". He agreed with author James Baldwin, who said in 1963 that the goal of school is "to ask questions of the universe and learn to live with those questions". ▲ Elena Brankov, 15, said the goal of school was to teach children to be creative, to share ideas and to use technology to make the world a better place. Lyndon Bailey, also 15, said, "School is just to get students trained in the basic skills necessary for employment and create leaders who help us to compete on the world stage."
(C)1. What does the underlined word "poll" in Paragraph 1 most probably mean?
A. Race. B. Plan. C. Survey. D. Test.
(D)2. Which of the following is the best to fill in the blank in Paragraph 2?
A. All the students agree with it.
B. Thanks to the school, everyone can get a good job.
C. School is just to make poor kids into robots that can work.
D. Students had different ideas about school because they are all different persons.
*3. In your opinion, what is school for?One possible version: School is a learning community where students prepare for their future life and work to acquire knowledge, skills and competences through meaningful and joyful learning.

答案： 1. C 2. D 3. One possible version: School is a learning community where students prepare for their future life and work to acquire knowledge, skills and competences through meaningful and joyful learning.