Community Service
Nowadays high schools are faced with a very controversial issue whether or not community service hours are needed to graduate. High schools are arguing that 40 hours of community service are needed to graduate, but many upset students are voicing protests(反对) to this demand.
Supporters of the community service project argue that while high school students are participating in community service, they will become better aware of what the real world is like. Students will learn valuable life lesson by doing community service.
Another idea that the protestors give about this community service issue is time restriction. When a student goes to school full time, he is involved in after-class activities and also works.
In my opinion, community service is a wonderful thing that everyone should be required to do at some point in their life, but are high school students mature and responsible enough to take on community service projects at this stage in their life?
| A．Protestors have struck back with a very solid argument. |
| B．A final controversial issue that appears is transportation. |
| C．Students will feel good about themselves for helping others in need. |
| D．They will continue to carry a negative attitude towards community service for their lifetime. |
| E．Both sides have solid arguments about why community service should or should not be forced upon students. |
| F．Unless the school offers a means of transportation for the students there really is no solution to this problem. |
| G．The time that is needed to participate in a community service project may place quite a burden on the student. |
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170 students' task: to get a fully-designed blog up and running, complete with many positions based on a theme of choice--- to food blogs.
The entries were judged on Language proficiency(熟练程度) and the quality of writing, as well as the design and level of exchanging ideas with readers.
Academics from the National University of Singapore and the SIM University, IT experts, and a journalist from Chinese newspaper Lianhe Zaobao in Singapore made up the judges.
In the end, only three Singaporean students make it to the award list---the rest of the awards were swept up by students from China.
"No surprise," said Mr. Chow Yaw Long, 37, teachers-in-charge from Innova Junior College, which organized the event, "Although the topics were local subjects, the foreign students were generally better because of the content of the posts and their grasp of the Chinese language."
One of the three local students winning the first prize in the Best Language Award was blogger Christina Gao, 19, from the Saint Andrew's Junior College, who spared no effors in researching for and writing her blog. Each entry took her between five and seven days to produce, complete with pictures and even podcasts (播客).
Her advice for bloggers is: Be responsible.
"Some bloggers out there only seek to blame the authorities and other bloggers." Said Miss Gao, "I think they lack responsibilities and there is no value to their posts."
1. The competition was organized by________.| A．the National University of Singapore | B．Chinese newspaper Lianhe Zaobao |
| C．Innova Junior College | D．the Saint Andrew's Junior College |
| A．Chinese students won most of the awards. |
| B．Not all the themes were about local subjects. |
| C．The blogs could be written in Chinese or Singlish. |
| D．The judges were from universities in Singapore and China. |
| A．she likes to blame the authorities. | B．she has a sense of resposibility |
| C．she thinks highly of the others' blogs. | D．she loves to read valuable posts. |
| A．how Chinese students won the awards in the competition |
| B．why bloggers should take responsibility for their blogs |
| C．how Miss Gao won the first prize in the competition |
| D．what the result of the competition was |
【推荐2】Last week, Education Secretary Arne Duncan declared a war on paper textbooks. “Over the next few years,” he said in a speech at the National Press Club, “textbooks should be abandoned.” In their place would come a variety of digital-learning technologies, like e-readers and multi-media websites.
Such technologies certainly have their place. But Secretary Duncan is threatening to light a fire to a tried-and-true technology—good old paper—that has been the foundation for one of the great educational systems on the planet. And while e-readers and multi-media may seem appealing, the idea of replacing an effective learning platform with a widely hyped (炒作) but still unproven one is extremely dangerous.
An expert on reading, Maryanne Wolf, has recently begun studying the effects of digital reading on learning, and so far the results are mixed. She worries that Internet reading, in particular, could be such a source of distractions(分散注意力) for the student that they may cancel out most other potential benefits of a web-linked, e-learning environment, and while it’s true that the high-tech industry has sponsored substantial amounts of research on the potential benefits of Web-based learning, not enough time has passed for longitudinal（纵向的） studies to demonstrate the full effects.
In addition, digital-reading advocates claim that lightweight e-books benefit students’ backs and save schools money. But the rolling backpack seems to have solved the weight problem, and the astounding costs to outfit every student with an e-reader, provide technical support and pay for regular software updates promise to make the e-textbook a very pricey choice.
As both a teacher who uses paper textbooks and a student of urban history, I can’t help but wonder what parallels exist between my own field and this sudden, wholesale abandonment of the technology of paper.
1. Which of the following statements is true according to the passage?| A．A tried and true technology is paper, long used in educational system. |
| B．Digital learning technologies will replace the paper textbooks sooner or later. |
| C．E-readers and multimedia websites are learning methods that are proved effective. |
| D．Multi-media websites and a good old paper are kinds of digital-learning technologies. |
| A．Its price. | B．Its weight. | C．Its content. | D．Its appearance. |
| A．paper learning can provide more potential benefits |
| B．the results of digital reading effects are understandable |
| C．students may not focus on learning by digital reading |
| D．digital reading can’t provide potential benefits for users |
| A．disapproving. | B．supportive. | C．positive. | D．objective. |
【推荐3】School Spirit Week can be held any time throughout the year in America. It is a special time when youthful exuberance (活力) is allowed full expression.
A Spirit Week program can include many types of supporting activities. At most events, students like to wear identifying clothing or articles that show they are a unified group and support their school. Spirit week agendas often encourage students to wear fun and modern clothes.
Parents love this special week as much as students and teachers do because parents have a great interest in the success of their children.
| A．Spirit Weeks often have a central theme. |
| B．Spirit Week is about having loads of fun at school. |
| C．They can wear a different one for each day of the week. |
| D．The kids aren't the only ones dressed up for Spirit Week. |
| E．It makes them very happy to see the kids enthused about school activities. |
| F．It is also a time to recognize athletic teams competing during that season. |
| G．The main purpose of Spirit Week is to get the kids supportive of the school. |
