We think that life in Chinese high school is an adventure in which we have to survive mountains of homework and all kinds of exams. Yet would it be 【小题1】(surprise) if I tell you that high school life in the US is almost as stressful and demanding as it is in China?

In US high school, everything 【小题2】(record) into your studying document, including your grades on quizzes, tests and final examinations. Failing 【小题3】(turn) in your homework on time will directly affect your grade for a certain course. Perhaps contrary to 【小题4】we used to think of the US high school students, they pay more attention to their 【小题5】(academy) performance to try to get into a distinguished university. 【小题6】, they’ll be disappointed after graduation from high school.

Like university students, US high school students have the 【小题7】(free) to choose the courses that most interest 【小题8】(they). Even a ninth grader can sit 【小题9】the same classroom as twelfth graders. But this also means he or she has to work very hard, because the teacher will not treat him or her differently just because he or she is a few years 【小题10】(young).