新目标英语七年级（上）十二单元背景知识简介

In the United States most children begin school in preschool at age three or four．在美国,孩子们在三、四岁时就开始上学前学校了。At the age of five,children begin kinder- garten(幼儿园)and go to school for half a day．Between the ages of six and twelve,stu- dents are in elementary school(小学)．Middle school or junior high school students are thir- teen and fourteen and high school students are between fifteen and eighteen．五岁时孩子们会上幼儿园,一般都是上半天时间。在六至十二岁之间上小学。初中阶段的孩子们一般都是在十三岁到十四岁间,高中学生一般都是十五到十八岁间。

American Middle School Students