单选题 More than 6000 children were expelled from US schools last year for bringing guns and bombs to school, the US Department of Education said on May 8.
The department gave a report to the expulsions(开除) as saying handguns accounted for 58 percent of the 6093 expulsions in 1996～1997,against 7 percent for rifles or shotguns and 35 percent for other types of firearms.
"The report is a clear sign that our nation's public schools are cracking down on students who bring guns to school," Education Secretary Richard Rile said in a statement. "We need to be tough-minded about keeping guns out of our schools and do everything to keep our children safe. "
In March 1997, an 11 years old boy and 13 years old boy using handguns and rifles shot dead four children and a teacher at a school in Jonesboro, Arkansas. In October, two were killed and seven wounded in a shooting at a Mississippi school. Two months later, a 14 years old boy killed three high school students and wounded five in Dasucah, Kentucky.
Most of the expulsions, 56 percent, were from high schools, which have students from about age 13. 34 percent were from junior high schools and 9 percent were from elementary schools, the report said.

单选题 From the first paragraph we can infer that in the US schools ______.

【正确答案】 C

【答案解析】[解析] 推理判断题。文章第一段只有一句话，说明的是美国学校中有6000多名学生因为携带枪支弹药去学校而被开除。由常识可以推断，这种情况说明美国学校里的安全是很成问题的，故答案是[C]。

单选题 The report from the US Department of Education shows that ______.

【正确答案】 D

【答案解析】[解析] 推理判断题。文章第一段说明的是因携枪上学被开除的总人数，第二段则分别说明了这6000多名被开除的学生中携带手枪、步枪或其他武器的比例。由常识可以推知，学生携带的武器种类之多、携带武器上学的人数之多都表明美国校园中枪支泛滥的程度很严重，[D]中的out of control指“失控”，与此意相符。其余三项根据常识和原文都可排除。

单选题 The main idea of Paragraph 4 shows us ______.

单选题 How many students were shot dead in 1997 in US schools?

单选题 From this passage we know that ______.

【正确答案】 C

【答案解析】[解析] 推理判断题。文章主要讨论的是美国校园里学生携带枪支武器上学这一问题。之所以形成问题，主要是因为学生有枪、可以携带枪；因此文章第三段最后一句才指出必须下定决心将枪支拒于校园之外(We need to be tough-minded...out of our school)。既然学生都可以拥有枪支，说明在美国人们是可以拥有枪支的，选[C]。