四、阅读理解。
阅读短文，根据短文内容回答问题。
Welcome to Schools Around the World! Today, let's learn about art classes. Many middle schools around the world have art classes.
Art classes teach many interesting skills like drawing, painting, sculpture(雕塑), paper cutting and photography(摄影). Let's go and take a look at some art classes at Green Middle School, London, the UK.
Here in the drawing class, the students are drawing pictures of animals, so it's very quiet. Two students are sketching(素描) cute cats. Three girls in the corner of the classroom are painting a beautiful sunset.
Let's go to the sculpture class. Today the students are learning to make clay(黏土) models. Over there, two boys are shaping a dog and a rabbit. Their works look lovely!
In the photography class, the students are learning about cameras. They are taking photos of the school garden and then editing(编辑) them on computers. The teacher is walking around the class, looking at the students' works and talking with them about their works.
It seems that all the students are having fun in their art classes and they are learning a lot. They can learn something creative, useful and fun in these classes.
1. How many kinds of skills about the art classes are mentioned in the passage? What are they?

2. What does the writer think of the classes?

3. Please tell the similarities(相似处) between the art classes in the UK and the art classes in China.（请至少写出一点）

1. Five. They are drawing, painting, sculpture, paper cutting and photography.
2. The writer thinks the classes are fun, and students can learn something creative, useful and fun from them.
3. 示例：They both have drawing lessons and help students develop their creativity. (答案不唯一，合理即可)

1. 本题可直接定位原文第二段第一句，数出文中提及的美术课技能总数，再逐一提取对应名称即可。
2. 定位原文最后一段，从中提取作者对美术课的评价内容作答。
3. 本题为开放类题目，结合生活实际写出任意一点中英美术课的共通点，表述通顺合理即可。