Fancy Dress High School
Many American schools don’t have a dress code(规范). Sometimes students can dress in the wildest ways you could imagine!
I noticed this during my first term as an exchange student at Macon High School in Missouri. One day, I saw all the students at my school were dressed up in strange clothing. The girls were wearing bright-coloured shirts and mini-skirts. The boys were wearing old-fashioned black suits. Later my friends told me that they were dressed up in the fashion of the 1900s.
“But why?” I asked, surprised.
“Because it’s the homecoming week, a time when former(以前的) students of the school come back and meet each other again. There are parties and sports events. The school encourages us to wear 1900s clothes on Monday, pyjamas(睡衣) on Tuesday, orange clothes on Wednesday, clothes inside out on Thursday, and socks that do not match on the last day! Sounds like fun, doesn’t it?”
I’d never imagined students wearing anything so crazy at school before. The next day, I plucked up(鼓起) my courage and went to school in blue pyjamas. There was no embarrassment(尴尬) since everyone was in pyjamas, even the teachers! It excited us when we noticed that Mr Lewis, our American history teacher, who always has a straight face and never makes jokes, was wearing pyjamas too! It made class that day such a lot of fun.
The rest of the week was also amazing. But I realized that homecoming week was not just about fun, but a chance to be creative and try out new things.
【小题1】The first paragraph serves as an ______.| A．explanation | B．introduction |
| C．example | D．opening |
| A．had a strange sense of fashion |
| B．were encouraged to dress like that |
| C．were ordered to wear 1800s clothes |
| D．wanted to look different |
| A．surprised | B．confident |
| C．comfortable | D．nervous |
| A．students had fun and tried out new things as well |
| B．students forgot all about their studies and had fun |
| C．teachers dressed as they did every day |
| D．teachers paid more attention to their teaching styles |
