第一段开头实际上提出了研究日本学前教育的原因:low academic achievement by children in the United States,大意是美国的儿童教育成效不明显,这迫使人们把目光投向了教育和经济水平都很高的日本,以期得到答案。这一探询的结果是出乎美国人意料的,日本学前教育很少强调功课指导,这也是本文的主要观点。文章接下来以问卷调查为论据对这一观点进行了论证。
问卷调查的结果是日本人更重视坚韧、专注和集体主义等素质的培养,第二段继续对集体主义这一项素质做了进一步说明:91%的日本人将其列为学前教育的三大目标之一,这项教育甚至会延续到小学教育。
最后一段讨论了除去上述素质教育外,日本学前教育的其他内容和特色。其中包括早期音乐训练和潜力发掘,附属于大学,以及自由玩耍。
Passage Three
Questions 21 to 25 are based on the following passage.
Lead deposits, which accumulated in soil and snow during the 1960s and 70s, were primarily the result of leaded gasoline emissions originating in the United States. In the twenty years that the Clean Air Act has mandated unleaded gas use in the United States, the lead accumulation worldwide has decreased significantly.
A study published recently in the journal Nature shows that air-borne leaded gas emissions from the United States were the leading contributor to the high concentration of lead in the snow in Greenland. The new study is a result of the continued research led by Dr. Charles Boutron, an expert on the impact of heavy metals on the environment at the National Center for Scientific Research in France. A study by Dr. Boutron published in 1991 showed that lead levels in arctic snow were declining.
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