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| When final exams draw near, you'll have class rankings (排名) again. Who will come top? Last week the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (经济合作与发展组织) picked the best students in the world. They are Finnish (芬兰的). The OECD gave a test to 280,000 10-year-old students from more than 40 countries and regions (地区), last year. The OECD wanted to know how well students were doing at school. Finnish students were No.1 in the reading tests, and second in math after Hong Kong. Both Japan and Finland were top in science. In problem solving Finnish students came second to South Korea. The test also showed Finland has more top students than the other countries. Finns of your age have done a really good job. But don't get jealous. You can learn from them. Most Finnish students make good use of the Inter-net. Of course not for computer games, but for doing more exercises and finding out more information. Libraries are also important. Finland spends a lot of money on them. Many students have a free card. They read for at least one or two hours a day. |
| 1. Students from _____ did best in general in the test. |
| A. South Korea B. Finland C. Hong Kong D. Japan |
| 2. Which country did better than Finland in problem solving? |
| A. Japan. B. China. C. South Korea. D. Britain. |
| 3. What can we learn from Finnish students? |
| A. Play more computer games on the Internet. B. Spend lots of time in libraries. C. Read storybooks for at least one or two hours a day. D. Do more exercises |
| 4. We can infer from the passage that _____. |
| A. the test can make students lose their interest in learning B. the test is designed to find out good ways to use the Internet C. it's hard to tell who are the best students in the world D. good habits are key to learning |
| 5. The best title for this passage is _____. |
| A. Ways to Improve Reading Skills B. Test Finds World's Best Students C. Finnish Students D. Internet and Libraries |