单选题 When school was out, I hurried to find my sister and get out of the school yard before seeing anybody in my class. But Barbara and her friends, had beaten us to the playground entrance and they seemed to be waiting for us. Barbara said, "So now you're in the A class." She sounded impressed. "What's the A class?" I asked. Everybody made superior yet faintly envious giggling sounds. "Well, why did you think the teacher moved you to the front of the room, dopey? Didn't you know you were in the C class before, way in the back of the room?" Of course I hadn' t known. The Wenatchee fifth grade was bigger than my whole school which had been in North Dakota, and the idea of subdivisions within a grade had never occurred to me. The subdividing for the first marking period had been done before I came to the school, and I had never, in the six weeks I'd been there, talked to anyone long enough to find out about the A, B, and C classes. I still could not understand why that had made such a difference to Barbara and her friends. I didn't yet know that it was shameful and dirty to be a transient laborer and ridiculous to be from North Dakota. I thought living in a tent was more fun than living in a house. I didn't know that we were gypsies, really(how that thought would have excited me then!), and that we were regarded with the suspicion felt by those who plant toward those who do not plant. It didn't occur to me that we were all looked upon as one more of the untrustworthy natural phenomena, drifting here and there like mists or winds, I didn' t know that I was the only child who had camped on the Baumann's land ever to get out of the C class. I didn't know that school administrators and civic leaders held conferences to talk about the problem of transient laborers. I only knew that for two happy days I walked to school with Barbara and her friends, played hopscotch and jumped rope with them at class intervals, and was even invited into the house for some ginger ale—a strange drink I had never tasted before.
单选题 The tone of this passage as a whole is______.
【正确答案】 A
【答案解析】解析：推断题。通读全文可知，作者是在回忆她童年时从低级班升入高级班的往事及这件事给她带来的感受。故答案为A。
单选题 The narrator had most probably been placed in the C class because______.
【正确答案】 D
【答案解析】解析：细节题。作者在文章第四段指出“…I was the only child who had camped on the Baumann’sland ever to get out of the C class．”，即在所有生活在Baumann这个地方帐篷里的孩子中，她是迄今为止从C班升入A班唯一的一个孩子。由此可知，可能所有的生活在Baumann“无固定工作者”的孩子都会分到C班。故选D。
单选题 The basic reason why the people in the community distrusted the transient workers was that the transient workers______.
【正确答案】 D
【答案解析】解析：细节题。作者在短文第四段指出当地的人用怀疑的眼光来看待他们，“…we were alllooked upon as…drifting here and there like mists or winds…”，即他们被认为是游移不定、四海漂泊的人。故答案为D。
单选题 Which of the following is not characteristic of Gypsies?
【正确答案】 B
【答案解析】解析：细节题。根据短文第四段表述可知吉普赛人游移不定，四海漂泊，没有固定住所，也不会种植作物。由此可知，答案为B。
单选题 Immediately after the narrator was moved to the A class, what was the attitude of Barbara and Barbara's friends towards her?
【正确答案】 B
【答案解析】解析：推断题。作者在短文最后指出“…I walked to school with Barbara and her friends，playedhopscotch and jumped rope with them at class intervals，and was even invited into the house for some ginger ale…”，即作者与Barbara等人至少共度了两天的快乐时光，比如，一起上学，课间一起玩游戏，到她们家做客等。由此可知，在作者刚刚升人A班后，Barbara开始接受她。