Tom was one of the brightest boys in the year, with supportive parents. But when he was 15 he suddenly stopped trying. He left school at 16 with only two scores for secondary school subjects. One of the reasons that made it cool for him not to care was the power of his peer(同龄人)group.
The lack of right male role models in many of their lives—at home and particularly in the school environment—means that their peers are the only people they have to judge themselves against.
They don’t see men succeeding in society so it doesn’t occur to them that they could make something of themselves.Without male teachers as a role model, the effect of peer actions and street culture is all-powerful. Boys want to be part of a club. However, schools can provide the environment for change, and provide the right role models for them. Teachers need to be trained to stop that but not in front of a child’s peers.You have to do it one to one, because that is when you see the real child.
It’s pointless sending a child home if he or she has done wrong. They see it as a welcome day off to watch television or play computer games. Instead, schools should have a special unit where a child who has done wrong goes for the day and gets advice about his problems—somewhere he can work away from his peers and go home after the other children.
1. Why did Tom give up studying?| A．He disliked his teachers. |
| B．His parents no longer supported him. |
| C．It's cool for boys of his age not to care about studies. |
| D．There were too many subjects in his secondary school. |
| A．Peer groups. |
| B．A special unit. |
| C．The student judges. |
| D．The home environment. |
| A．Wait for their change patiently. |
| B．Train leaders of their peer groups. |
| C．Stop the development of street culture. |
| D．Give them lessons in a separate area. |
| A．is with the boy alone |
| B．teaches the boy a lesson |
| C．sends the boy home as punishment |
| D．works together with another teacher |
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【推荐1】Chizuru Kurono:
We had a dress code in my high school. We had to wear uniforms and white socks. We didn’t like our dress code. The teachers warned us, “If you don’t follow the school dress code, you will be considered bad students.”
I didn’t agree with their ideas because they didn’t think about the students’ rights. We wanted them to understand our ideas. In my junior high school, boys were skinheads (光头青年) because of the school dress code. We wanted to change it, so we discussed it with the teachers and with our parents. At last, we got the right to change the school dress code.
Ayumi Ono:
When we wear uniforms, we don’t need extra money for clothes. For example, if we have a school uniform, we wear it every day, so we don’t need to buy dresses to wear to school. I think second-hand clothes are also a good idea. These are much cheaper than new ones.
Kayo Shigenobu:
I don’t think we need dress codes because wearing clothes is a way to express individuality, I want to wear clothes that I like, so I don’t think school uniforms are necessary. However, a school uniform is a symbol of the school.
Mami Kanemaru:
I think a dress code is a bad thing because we cannot show our individuality. We humans each have individuality, so we had better show it to other people. If we have a dress code, we all look alike, but we are different.
Keita Ogura:
To wear the same clothes is an effective way to unite people into one way of thinking. For example, military clothes do this. In some societies, they want to increase their unity and power by making people wear the same clothes.
Yuki Masui:
When I was a high school student, we had some school rules; mainly it was a dress code. We had to wear sailor-style uniforms. Then, as in the winter season we felt cold, we wore T-shirts under our uniforms to protect ourselves from the cold. However, our teachers decided to require students not to wear undershirts. We had to follow these rules. If we didn’t, we were punished.
1. What are these people talking about?| A．Their opinions on what kind of clothes to wear. |
| B．Their opinions on wearing school uniforms. |
| C．Their opinions on some of their school rules. |
| D．Their opinions of their schools and teachers. |
| A．will make them lose their personality to others |
| B．can unite them into one way of thinking |
| C．will enable them to look better than other people |
| D．can save them a lot of money |
| A．Ayumi Ono and Keita Ogura. |
| B．Chizuru Kurono and Yuki Masui. |
| C．Mami Kanemaru and Keita Ogura. |
| D．Yuki Masui and Kayo Shigenobu. |
| A．many students refused to wear undershirts at school |
| B．the sailor-style uniforms protected them from cold |
| C．their teachers cared for their studies as well as health |
| D．the students in their school had a hard time in winter |
【推荐2】Welcome to Our After-school Activities
| Music Lesson Want to become happy in life? Want to enjoy beautiful songs? Music lessons (guitar, violin, piano and drums) Place: Training Room 304, School Gym Time: 8:30 a.m. — 10:30 a.m. every Saturday Come to www. mclub. com to learn more! | Food Festival Want to enjoy various food? Want to join in our food festival? Delicious food (pizza, sushi, curies, fired rice) Place: school Dining Hall Time: 11:00 a.m. — 5:00 p.m. Sunday, May 16th |
PE Club Please come and join us! Make your school life colorful! Place: School Playground Day: Saturday ~Sunday Time: 5:00 p.m. — 6:00 p.m. Outdoor Activities (basketball, football, volleyball, running….) | Movie Night Want to spend a wonderful evening? Please come and watch it. Place: School Hall Day: Saturday evening Time: 6:00 p.m. — 11:10 p.m. Movies (Wolf War I 6:00 p.m. — 8:10 p.m.) (Hi, Mom 8:30 p.m — 11:10 p.m.) |
| A．8:30 p.m. — 10:30 p.m. | B．6:00 p.m. — 11:10 p.m. |
| C．11:00 a.m. — 5:00 p.m. | D．8:30 a.m. — 10:30 a.m. |
| A．School Playground. | B．School Dining Hall. |
| C．School Gym. | D．School Hal. |
| A．PE Club | B．Music Lesson | C．Food Festival | D．Movie Night |
| Guanchouyuan Dining Hall | 6:30—9:00 11:00—13:00 17:00—20:00 |
| Zijingyuan Dining Hall Taoliyuan Dining Hall Yushuyuan Dining Hall | 6:30—9:00 10:30—13:00 16:30—23:00 |
| Zhilanyuan Dining Hall (Buffet served on the 2nd floor) | 11:00—13:00 17:00—20:00 |
| Qingqing Kuaican (Similar to McDonalds and KFC but at lower prices) | 10:30—22:30 |
| Qingqing Pizza Qingqing Yonghe | 10:30—20:30 |
| Muslim Canteen | 6:30—9:00 11:00—13:30 17:00—20:00 |
| Happy Four Bakery | 8:00—21:30 |
| Campus Jazz Coffee | 10:00—22:30 |
| SPR Coffee | 8:00—20:00 |
Our student dining halls are famous for their good service and reasonable price, providing a variety of dishes including Muslim and Western food. In addition, there are several fast-food restaurants and Café, where you may meet many international students.
How to get a dining card
The degree-program students, including the undergraduate and graduate students, shall apply for a student IC card which can be used as the dining card.
The non-degree-program students, including the visiting students, exchange students and the Chinese language program students, shall apply for an ordinary dining card at the Student Dining Service Center located in student dormitory building No. 15, with admission notice, student ID card or a certificate issued by International Students Office.
How to recharge your dining card
As to the degree-program students, there is no money in their student IC cards when they first get it. So the students can make use of the recharging machines in the campus to transfer the money from the debt card of the Bank of China that has been connected to the IC card. The recharging machines are located around Taoliyuan Dining Hall, Zijingyuan Dining Hall, Guanchouyuan Dining Hall, teaching building No. 6 as well as the Student Service Center.
As to the non-degree program students, they can recharge the ordinary dining card with RMB cash in the following places: Zijingyuan Dining Hall, Taoliyuan Dining Hall, and the Student Dining Service Center (located in student dormitory building No. 15).
1. Who can use their student IC cards as dining cards?| A．Visiting students. | B．Exchange students. |
| C．Undergraduate students. | D．Language program students. |
| A．In the No. 15 teaching building. | B．Around Guanchouyuan Dining Hall. |
| C．At the Student Dining Service Center. | D．In the No. 6 student dormitory building. |
| A．6:30-7:30. | B．9:00-10:00. | C．18:00-19:00. | D．21:30-22:30. |
【推荐1】Though it is not good for us to expose ourselves to sunlight for too long, allowing ourselves appropriate amount of exposure to sunlight gives us many benefits and affects us in a number of ways.
Without the sun, life would not have developed. It gives us energy and heats our world. The sun gives us light and thus in turn we are able to see the beautiful colors in our world. It makes us feel good when we feel the warmth of its rays on our shoulders. We store the energy from the sun to help build and heat our houses.
Without sunlight we would not be able to survive. Sunlight gives balance. All living things live in a food chain and at the beginning of the food chain comes the plant which absorbs sunlight and transforms light energy into chemical energy, which will then be absorbed by another life to be turned into a new kind of energy and so on.
One of the benefits that we can get from sunlight is that we can receive vitamin D from sunlight. It helps us to keep a healthy body, control the amount of minerals in the body, which is needed to help keep our bones and teeth in good condition and helps to keep a well-balanced mind.
Different places on the earth receive varying degrees of sunlight, which will decide the region’s climate. For example, the farther away it is from the equator (赤道), the sharper the angle (角度) of the sun’s rays that reach it, which means that sunlight coverage will be more spread out, and receive less heat than lower latitude areas nearer the equator.
1. Why does sunlight give balance?| A．It helps to pass energy. | B．It helps to absorb energy. |
| C．It helps to form new lives. | D．It helps to protect new lives. |
| A．increasing the amount of minerals | B．obtaining a healthy nerve system |
| C．keeping their bones and teeth healthy | D．keeping a delighted mind |
| A．Which place is the hottest. | B．How sunlight affects the climate. |
| C．How to get more sunlight. | D．How much sunlight a place needs. |
| A．Avoid being exposed to sunlight too long | B．Follow the researchers’ words |
| C．Good effects of sunlight on our lives | D．Making full use of sunlight |
【推荐2】Do you often listen to music at loud volumes (音量)？Over one billion (十亿) young people are at risk of hearing loss (失聪) because of listening to loud noise for long periods of time. Listening to music or watching a TV show at loud volumes is harmful to your hearing.
The United Nations has standards for safe listening. It is not safe to listen to sounds that are louder than 85 decibels (dB 分贝) for eight hours or 100 dB for 15 minutes. The sound of a busy road is about 85 dB and the sound of a rock concert can be about 100 dB.
Loud noise is harmful to the inner ears (内耳). Most of us are born with about 16,000 hair cells (听毛细胞) in our inner ears. However, listening to loud noise for a long time can make these cells work too hard and cause some of them to die. This is what causes hearing loss.
Some people might think that their music isn't all that loud. But this can depend on where you are. For example, if you are in a noisy place like the subway, you might turn up your music too loud without realizing it. Later, when you listen to it at the same volume in a quiet place， you might feel uncomfortable.
The World Health Organization said the “safe level" for most sounds is below 80 dB for up to 40 hours a week. A level of 80 dB is roughly equal to (大约相当于) the noise of a subway.
1. Many young people are at risk of hearing loss because they________.| A．watch TV every day |
| B．listen to music every day |
| C．listen to loud noise in the subway |
| D．listen to loud noise for a long time |
| A．80 dB | B．85 dB |
| C．100 dB | D．110 dB |
| A．The inner ears. | B．The brain. |
| C．The heart. | D．The eyes. |
| A．Keep the Loud Volumes | B．Loud Noise Is Harmful to Hearing |
| C．The Risk of Listening to Music | D．Loud Noise Stops Ears from Working |
【推荐3】The fitness movement that began in the late 1960s and early 1970s centered around aerobic exercise (有氧运动). Millions of individuals became engaged in a variety of aerobic activities, and literally thousands of health spas developed around the country to capitalize on this emerging interest in fitness, particularly aerobic dancing for females.
A number of fitness spas existed prior to this aerobic fitness movement, even a national chain with spas in most major cities. However, their focus was not on aerobics, but rather on weight-training programs designed to develop muscular mass, strength, and endurance in their primarily male enthusiasts. These fitness spas did not seem to benefit financially from the aerobic fitness movement to better health, since medical opinion suggested that weight-training programs offered few, if any, health benefits. In recent years, however, weight training has again become increasingly popular for males and for females. Many current programs focus not only on developing muscular strength and endurance but on aerobic fitness as well.
Historically, most physical-fitness tests have usually included measures of muscular strength and endurance, not for health-related reasons, but primarily because such fitness components have been related to performance in athletics. However, in recent years, evidence has shown that training programs designed primarily to improve muscular strength and endurance might also offer some health benefits as well. The American College of Sports Medicine now recommends that weight training be part of a total fitness program for healthy Americans. Increased participation in such training is one of the specific physical activity and fitness objectives of Healthy People 2000: National Health Promotion and Disease Prevention Objectives.
1. The word “spas” most probably means “________”.| A．sports activities | B．places for physical exercise |
| C．recreation centers | D．athletic training programs |
| A．the promotion of aerobic exercise |
| B．endurance and muscular development |
| C．the improvement of women’s figures |
| D．better performance in aerobic dancing |
| A．Positive. | B．Indifferent. |
| C．Negative. | D．Cautious |
| A．had become an essential part of people’s life |
| B．may well affect the health of the trainees |
| C．will attract more people in the days to come |
| D．contributes to health improvement as well |
