美国的校园生活

在美国的大学（college）校园里，崇尚(advocate)的是自由(freedom)与自主的思想。这可以体现(reflect )在学生的选课上。美国学生选课是完全取决于(lie on)自己的，每个人根据自己的时间和经济(economic)情况来选择课程。

因此，没有统一的班级。即使必修课(a required course)，学生也可以自由选择修读的时间。但选课自由不是没有限制(limit)的，首先，选读的专业大纲限制了选课的范围。

学校和有关的科系只规定某个专业的必修课程和公共基础课程(course)，专业计划里主要为选修课。其次，选课要受到最高和最低周学分数量的限制。学校规定全日制学生（full-time）和半工半读学生（part-time)每周要选的最低和最高学分。

全日制一般最低为每周16个学分；半工半读一般最低为每周6学分。但超过(exceed)了一定的上限，学生选课的费用将上浮。也就是，在某个学分数量之内选课，学费最合算。

这样，学生的自由被有效的规定了一个范围。

拓展阅读：a little boy comes to a new town. his name is peter picket.

of course he liveswith his parents. his family is very rich. they h**e a gardener（园丁）, a cook（厨师）and a lot of other servants（佣人）.

peter is going to a new school. on the first day his mother says to him, “peter,be modest（谦虚）at your new school. dont say we are rich.

” and peter says,“yes, mummy.”

so peter goes to school. he meets his new teacher. and he sits down with is a composition.

the title（题目）is my name .”so all the children writetheir compositions（作文）. this is peters composition:

“my name is peter picket .my family is very poor. my father is very poor.

my mother is also very poor. soare the gardener, the cook and all the other servants.”

1. peter lives with his___

a. mother b. father

c. teacher d. mother and father

2. there are __family members in peters family.

a. five b. three

c. ten d. twenty

3. peters mother doesnt want peter to tell others about their __family.

a. richb. big

c. poor d. new

4. what is the first exercise of peter on the first day?

5. does the peter h**e a poor family?答案。

1. d解析：of course he lives with his parents.选d

2. b解析：同第一题，选b

3. a解析：“peter, be modest at your new school. dont say we are rich.”选a

4. (the first exercise on the first day is a composition.)

解析：the first exercise today is a composition.原句。

5. (no，he hasnt.)

解析：通读全文得到答案。