The kids are hanging out. I pass small bands of students, in my way to work these mornings

A．The parents can have much more free time

B．The kids can make new friends

C．The kids won't be hanging around their parents all day long

D．All of the above

ies have become impossible since their kids were born. That&39; s the way most parents are living their lives, no weekends of their own, no time to visit friends, not even a chance of promotion in their jobs.

Asking help from their parents might be a way out,but problems are that some out aging parents are not strong enough to take care of the kids, and that the kids may also become too spoiled by their grandparents.

Then, here comes a solution: families with kids can form. a small group, and parents of each family can take turns to look after all the kids in this group on weekends. Thus, other parents can have some quiet time and feel free to do something they&39; ve been planning for a long time. At the same time, the kids can make new friends and won&39; t be hanging around their parents all day long. This is baby-pooling.

46. Many post-80s couples can&39;t go to the movies, shop or attend parties because__________

A.they have to look after their kids

B.they have to look after their parents

C.they are busy with their work

D.they have no money

According to the last paragraph, the solution to the problem of post-80s couples is that__________A.families with kids form a small group

B.they ask their aging parents for help

C.they give up their jobs

D.they take cheir kids wherever they go

In paragraph 2, “a way out” means__________A.out of date

B.a solution

C.without question

D.a complaint

What is(are) the advantage(s) of baby-pooling？__________.

A.The parents can have much more free time

B.The kids can make new friends

C.The kids won’t be hanging around their parents all day long

D.All of the above

The passage mainly discusses__________A.post-80s couples and their friends

B.post-80s couples and baby-pooling

C.post-80s couples and their parents

D.kids and their grandparents

请帮忙给出每个问题的正确答案和分析，谢谢！

British teaching unions Sunday cautiously welcomed government

plans to extend school opening hours for pupils ages under 14 that 【M1】______

are aimed at allowing parents working longer and keeping kids out 【M2】______

of trouble. Education Secretary Ruth Kelly was Monday to set out a

680-million-pound (1.02-billion-pound, 1.21-billion-dollar)

programme to transfer schools into community centres. 【M3】______

A senior Education Department source said, "Respect is a

two-way street and we know that if we want to keep kids hanging 【M4】______

out and causing trouble, and if we want their parents to go out to

work to support the family, the days of schools opening 9 am—3 pm

are over." Responding to the news, a spokeswoman for the National

Union of Teachers said, "The 680 million sound like new money, but 【M5】______

across 23,000 schools, it will be spread very thinly." Schools did not

necessarily have the capacity or resources to meet the government's

wishes, she added.

Children would be able to turn up early to school for so-called

breakfast clubs and stay lately playing sport or doing homework 【M6】______

under a shake-up of the school day to be known as "Kelly hours".

Prime Minister Tony Blair has said the government's plans for

opening schools from 8 am to 6 pm would end the culture of

"latch-key kids" come home to empty houses after school. 【M7】______

Schools in Britain generally begin at 9 am, closing at six hours 【M8】______

later, although some have already began to extend the learning day,

A prospectus for the scheme was to be sent to schools and local

councils. Writing in the document, Kelly said, "From my visits of 【M9】______

schools, I know that the best are delivering extended services

already. They know that children will be better placed to achieve

their full potential if they are in childcare What allows them to 【M10】______

complete their homework, keep fit and healthy and have fun."

Schools would be free to choose what activities they offered.

【M1】

They have become a familiar part of the summer landscape.

These kids are not old enough for jobs. Nor are they rich enough for camp. They are school children without school. The calendar called the school year ran out on them a few weeks ago. Once supervised by teachers and principals, they now appear to be "self care".

Passing them is like passing through a time zone. For much of our history, after all, Americans arranged the school year around the needs of work and family. In 19th-century cities, schools were open seven or eight hours a day, 11 months a year. In rural America, the year was arranged around the growing season. Now, only 3 percent of families follow the agricultural model, but nearly all schools are scheduled as if our children went home early to milk the cows and took months off to work the crops. Now, three-quarters of the mothers of school-age children work, but the calendar is written as if they were home waiting for the school bus.

The six-hour day, the 180-day school year is regarded as something holy. But when parents work an eight-hour day and a 240-day year, it means something different. It means that many kids go home to empty houses. It means that, in the summer, they hang out.

"We have a huge mismatch between the school calendar and realities of family life," says Dr. Ernest Boye, head of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching.

Dr. Boyer is one of many who believe that a radical revision of the school calendar is inevitable. "School, whether we like it or not, is educational. It always has been. "

His is not popular idea. Schools are routinely burdened with the job of solving all our social problems. Can they be asked to meet the needs of our work and family lives？

It may be easier to promote a longer school year on its educational merits and, indeed, the educational case is compelling. Despite the complaints and studies about our kids' lack of learning, the United State still has a shorter school year than any industrial nation. In most of Europe, the school year is 220 days. In Japan, it is 240 days long. While classroom time alone doesn't produce a well-educated child, learning takes time and more learning takes more time. The long summers of forgetting take a toll.

The opposition to a longer school year comes from families that want to and can provide other experiences for their children. It comes from teachers. It comes from tradition. And surely from kids. But the most important part of the conflict has been over the money.

The current American school calendar was developed in the 19th century according to ______.

A．the growing season on the nation's farm

B．the labor demands of the industrial age

C．teachers'demands for more vacation time

D．parents'demands for other experiences for their kids

A.to hang about

B.in having hung about

C.in hanging about

D.to hanging about

A.Hanging artemisia

B.Drinking realgar

C.Hanging Hsiang Pao

D.Dragon boat racing

A.hangs

B.hang

C.hanged

D.hanging

A.trying

B.hanging

C.xciting

D.surprising