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FastReading Ask the students to read the text and answer the question on Page 9.(Fast Reading) Similarities: A school year is divided into two semesters. Differences: American schools have long vacations. 2. CarefulReading Ask the students to answer the following questions(Careful Reading) 1. How long does secondary school cover in the US?(seven years) 2. Which grades are high school? (ninth to twelfth grades) 3. What do they need if they want to go to college?(a high diploma) 4. How many semesters are there in the school year? (two semesters) 5. What are they? (The first of which is September through December, and the second January through May.). 6. What is the school schedule? (They start at 7:50 am and they finish at 3 pm.) 7. What is the main idea of the third and the fouth paragraph? (The student’s afterschool activities and the author wants to know something about the Chinese school system.) 3. Sum up Let students sum up the differences between American school system and China’s . (三)課堂活動(dòng) What do you think of the American school syst