[多项选择]Education in Britain and the U.S.A
In Britain all children have to go to school between the ages of 5 and 16. In the US children must go to school from the age of 6 to between the ages of 14 and 16, depending on the state they live in.
Subjects
In England and Wales the subjects taught in schools are laid down by the National Curriculum, which was introduced in 1988 and sets out in detail the subjects that children should study and the levels of achievement they should reach by the ages of 7,11,14 and 16,when they are tested. The National Curriculum does not apply in Scotland, where each school decides what subjects it will teach.
In the US the subjects taught are decided by the national and local governments. Whereas British schools usually have prayers and religious instruction ,American schools are not allowed to include prayers or to teach particular religious beliefs.
Examinations

[填空题]People in Britain all agree that more police in Britain should be armed.

[单项选择]Britain no longer dominates Anglophone education. Students want more, and the old empire is happy to give it to them. A good name and a British campus are no longer enough to pull in high-paying overseas recruits. The competition within the world of English-language higher education is growing increasingly intense. Today’s international students don’t automatically head to the United States or the United Kingdom; they consider a slew of factors before making their pick. Already, Britain is starting to suffer as it finds itself in a fierce three-way contest for market share.
On the one hand, U.S. colleges are recovering fast in overseas recruitment. On the other, a batch of commonwealth countries is coming on strong and eating into Britain’s market share. Consider Singapore, which four years ago set out to lure branches of foreign colleges. The number of overseas students there has since climbed 46 percent. And in the first three years of the decade, the number of foreign students
A. France.
B. Canada.
C. Cambodia.
D. India.

[单项选择]Once in Britain, family members would all get annoyed at the phone call while watching TV programs like The Two Ronnies. This does not often happen now—we are either twice as smart or twice as inattentive as we used to be.
Ofcom’s research demonstrates that the British have become a nation of media junkies (成瘾者). Now they spend more time on the Internet and do much net visiting while watching television. It is unlikely that the whole family will be in the living room these days—unless Doctor Who is on.
Ofcom’s data show that despite all the distractions (分心) offered by the internet ,which were supposed to threaten the basis of television viewing, the British remain fixed to the small screen.
The average time spent in front of TV fixed at three hours and 38 minutes a day, only six minutes down from 2003. Radio listening has suffered a little more in that time, but every person still spends a further 2 hours and 44 minutes a day with the radio on in the background.
Wh
A. The Two Ronnies
B. a traditional program
C. EastEnders
D. Doctor Who

[填空题]We have a chain of supermarkets all over Britain.

[填空题]{{B}}Britain’s System of Education{{/B}} The British Commonwealth includes a quarter of the world’s population in one-sixth of the world’s land area. All its (1) ______ member states have been formerly parts of the British Empire. In these countries English is either the first language or the most (2) ______ means of communication except for small-scale business. Today the Commonwealth is a (3) ______ association of independent (4) ______ states. Hong Kong cannot become independent because its main land section is part of China, but had been by Britain on a 99 year lease which (5) ______ in 1997. The transformation of the British Empire into a Commonwealth of independent nations began in 1867, when Canada became fully self-governed. The new Commonwealth took shape in 1947, when India and Pakistan became fully independent. Within 20 years, all the major British territories, in Asia, Africa and the Caribbean had been independent, with the help and agreement of the British government.