Deep Green Bush School is New Zealand’s newest and most unusual school with just eight students. The weather is so beautiful that the school day will start with fishing. After, the kids will eat lunch cooked on an open fire. Homework and classes? Canceled. Students spend most of the day outdoors exploring nature. They also learn about the plants and animals of their home. Students learn to read and write, but they do so at their own pace, when they begin getting interested, not when the teacher decides it is time to learn.
“We are called a school but we look nothing like any school out there,” says Joey Moncarz, who had been a teacher in more common schools for five years before he helped start the school more than a year ago. Being worried that common schools were not preparing children for the problems of the future, he began thinking about a very different kind of education, teaching kids the skills of survival.
Some parents saw their kids were unhappy and stressed in mainstream education and began to question whether it is normal or right for kids to come home stressed and unhappy. People have asked Moncarz to open similar “bush schools” around New Zealand, and as far away as Europe and China.
David Berg is a learning expert. He said schools like Moncarz’s are becoming more popular. However, he says, these schools need to be careful. Children need to learn traditional subjects so they can find jobs in the modern world. Berg said many people still feel it is important to spend more time in nature. People in the modern world need to have many skills and some of those can be developed outside.
Moncarz insists that the school isn’t an experiment( 试 验 ). For two million years, parents have brought up their kids with nature, he said. “We don’t want to be one of a kind, we want to take the place of mainstream schools,” he said. “We are using the same method parents have used to teach their kids for millions of years. Locking kids in a classroom and driving them to learn just causes a lot of problems.”
1. Paragraph 1 is mostly about ________.| A．how many kids learn outside | B．where the school building is |
| C．what the bush school is like | D．why there is no homework |
| A．learning about the nature is less helpful |
| B．normal schools do not teach the right things |
| C．normal schools teach things in the future |
| D．everything should not be taught in schools |
| A．the most acceptable education | B．public education |
| C．the most important education | D．private education |
| A．Parents wish their kids to get education in China. |
| B．David Berg doesn’t totally agree with Moncarz. |
| C．Moncarz hopes bush schools will be main education. |
| D．Moncarz believes the bush school pattern is not new. |
| A．To make more kids choose outdoor schools. |
| B．To describe and explain an outdoor school. |
| C．To tell parents that outdoor schools are bad. |
| D．To see how weather means to bush schools. |
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People go to school for education. School education is very important and useful, but no one can learn everything from school. A teacher, no matter how much he knows, cannot teach his student everything. His work is to show his students how to learn. He teaches them how to read and how to think. So much more is to be learned outside school by students themselves.
It’s always more important to know how to learn by oneself than to learn some facts or formulas （公式）by heart. It’s quite easy to learn some facts in history or a formula in math, but it’s very difficult to use them. Edison and Einstein didn’t get everything from school, but they were all successful. They invented so many things. The reason for their success is that they knew how to study. They read many books outside school. They worked hard all their lives, wasting not a single moment. The most important thing is that they know how to use their brains（大脑）。
1. Everyone can learn everything from school.
2. To learn some facts in history or a formula in math isn’t very difficult.
3. Edison and Einstein didn’t read many books outside school.
4. It’s very important for a teacher to show his students how to learn.
5. The reason for Edison and Einstein success is that they knew how to study.
【推荐2】The Tiger Mother, Amy Chua and her book named Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother are famous all over the world, especially in America and China.
Amy Chua is a Chinese American, born in the USA to middle-class Chinese parents who moved to the US from China. She was born in the year of the tiger, so she called herself Tiger Mother. Amy Chua is very famous because of her parenting styles （养育方式） . She has two daughters, Sophia and Louisa. She is very strict with them.
From the moment her daughters were born, she had set targets for them. She decided that the two girls would play instruments, Sophia the piano and Louisa the violin, and what is more, they would be the best at it. At the same time, they had to be the first in study.
The two girls always get an A in each lesson. Sophia could read books and began to play the piano when she was 3 years old. Once, Louisa got the second place in a maths test when she was in Grade 5. After that, Amy Chua made Louisa do 20 pieces of paper and there were 100 maths problems on each paper. A week later, Louisa got the first place and she is the first all the time from then on.
1. Why does Amy Chua have the name Tiger Mother?| A．Because she wrote the book Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother. |
| B．Because she was born in the year of the tiger. |
| C．Because she likes tigers very much. |
| D．Because she is a tiger's mother. |
| A．Her name. | B．Her book. | C．Her parenting styles. | D．Her job. |
| A．目标 | B．模板 | C．规则 | D．竞赛 |
| A．two years old | B．three years old | C．four years old | D．five years old |
| A．20 maths problems | B．80 maths problems | C．100 maths problems | D．2,000 maths problems |
| A．She learnt parenting skills from her mother. | B．She was born in China. |
| C．She doesn't love her children. | D．She is a strict mother. |
【推荐3】We’ll finally grow up some day, leaving our parents and facing the challenges in life. Parents may not be able to solve every problem for us. Instead, we should have enough life skills to deal with the problems that come our way.
This is what our country tries to do now: Helping more students get working spirit. To stress（强调）the importance of education on the hard-working spirit among students of different ages, the government released（发布）a guideline（纲要）recently.
The guideline calls for students to respect work. Students should learn basic life skills and form good working habits through such education.
The government has been trying to stress the importance of education on the hard working spirit. But this has been overlooked in recent years. Many students do not value the importance of working hard and are not interested in doing so.
According to a study of nearly 3, 000 students that was done by Evening News, only 22 percent of the students help with everyday housework.
Schools and families play an important role in teaching students about the value of working hard, the guideline says. Schools should provide students with hard working spirit classes every week, according to the guideline. Schools can also hold activities to give students real-world work experience. For example, schools can teach children how to plant trees on Tree-Planting Day.
As children’s first teachers, parents should also encourage children to learn how to do housework. Students should get one or two life skills every year. These skills can include cooking, washing their own clothes and tidying their rooms.
1. The guideline was released in order to ________.| A．call for students to respect work | B．teach students how to do housework |
| C．ask students to face the challenges | D．help students solve life problems |
| A．证实 | B．关注 | C．察看 | D．忽略 |
| A．Only 3, 000 students help with housework. |
| B．Students pay no attention to working spirit. |
| C．About one-fifth of students help with housework. |
| D．Students are very dependent（依赖的）on their parents. |
| A．provide both guidance and chances for real work | B．give parents homework |
| C．hand out the guideline to every student | D．teach students how to plant trees |
| A．the government calls for students to work hard |
| B．schools should help students get work experience |
| C．students should be hard-working and independent |
| D．education on the hard working spirit is important and what we should do |
【推荐1】In Junior High School in America, kids study English, writing, math, science, biology, music and art.
At 12 o'clock, the students have lunch at school. They have meat, vegetable fruit,bread and a drink, but they like hot dogs and hamburgers best. American kids like sugar (糖). After lunch,they can have a small piece of cake.
Students never sleep after lunch. They begin classes at 1: 30 in the afternoon. They go to school on weekdays and have classes for six hours every day and then return home.
Parents let their kids play or watch TV until dinner at 6: 00 p. m. After dinner, at half past six,they do their homework.Sometimes kids and their parents have a family activity after dinner.
1. The students like_________best for lunch at school| A．meat and fruit | B．hot dogs and hamburgers |
| C．hot dogs and sugar | D．bread and hamburgers |
| A．at 6:00 | B．at 6:30 | C．at 7:00 | D．at 7: 30 |
| A．American students like hot dogs and hamburgers best |
| B．After lunch, students sleep for a short time |
| C．The classes begin at 1: 30 p.m |
| D．Sometimes students have a family activity with their parents after dinner. |
| A．Favorite Food | B．Junior High School |
| C．Outdoor Activities | D．Student Life in America |
【推荐2】It was my first day at school. The teacher in my English class was Mr. Browne, a really tall man with a yellow beard. At the beginning of the class, he wrote on the chalkboard in big block letters：PRECEPT.
“Okay, so who can tell me what a precept is? Does anyone know?”
No one put up their hands. Mr. Browne smiled and wrote on the chalkboard again：
PRECEPT=Rules about really important things.
“So, what are some really important things?” he asked us.
Many students gave their answers; rules, schoolwork, homework, family, parents, friends, our world……
“Okay,” said Mr. Browne, “but no one has named the most important thing of all.”
We all looked at him, out of ideas, He then wrote down;
WHO WE ARE!
“Who we are! Us! Right? What kind of people are we? Isn’t the most important thing of all? Learning who you are is what you’re here to do.”
He turned around and wrote in huge block letters:
Mr. Browne’s September precept:
When given the choice（选择）between being right or being kind, choose kind.
“Okay, so everybody, I want you to start a brand-new part in your notebooks and call it Mr. Browne’s precept. And from now on, at the beginning of every month, I’m going to write a new Mr. Browne precept on the chalkboard and you are going to write it down in your notebook. Then we are going to talk about that precept and what it means. And at the end of the month, you are going to write about it, about what it means to you. So by the end of the year…”
As I wrote down Mr. Browne’s precept, I suddenly found that I was going to like school.
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1. What does Mr. Browne look like?
| A．A tall man with yellow hair. | B．A short man with a yellow beard. |
| C．A tall man with a yellow beard. | D．A short man with yellow hair. |
| A．规章 | B．准则 | C．课程 | D．纪律 |
| A．Schooling and homework. | B．Family and parents. | C．Our world. | D．Who we are. |
| A．The students knew what the most important things were. |
| B．The teacher wanted students to choose being right. |
| C．The students wrote the precept on their English books. |
| D．The writer liked the English class and the teacher. |
| A．The Precept | B．My English Teacher | C．My School day | D．The Choice |
【推荐3】There are two terms in a school year in America. The first is from September to January, and the second is from February to June.
American children usually begin to go to school at the age of five. Most students are 17 or 18 years old when they finish high school. High school students have only four or five subjects each term. They usually go to the same class every day, and they have homework for each class. After class they do many interesting things.
After high school, many students go to college. They usually have to pay a lot of money. So many college students work after class to get the money for their studies.
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1. There are two terms in a school year in America.
2. The second term begins in January.
3. There are only four or five subjects each year.
4. Many students go to college after high school.
5. Many American college students make money for their studies.
【推荐1】More and more Americans are buying used clothes from second-hand stores. ThredUP is an online second-hand store. James Reinhart, the founder (创始人) of ThredUP, once said, “You have to go where the customer is going.”
Now some popular department stores(百货公司), like J.C. Penney and Macy’s, have started selling old clothes, too. The first big store that entered the old clothes business was Neiman Marcus. Customers can buy old clothes in the store. It has also started to leave areas in the store to recycle (回收) old clothes from customers. Many customers think it’s very convenient.
Customers want to pay less for clothes. And they’d rather see their old clothes worn again than thrown away.
A report on ThredUp shows that sales of second-hand clothes will grow from $24 billion in 2018 to $51 billion by 2023. Another study finds that one-third of the customers sold unwanted clothes to buy new ones.
However, Neil Saunders, the director of Global Data Retail, thinks selling old clothes can destroy the relationship between stores and suppliers(供货商) of new clothes. The suppliers will have to spend more money on advertisement(广告) and sell new clothes at a lower price.
Some people think selling old clothes is a way for some big stores to bring young customers back. Is that true? Do you agree?
1. What do James Reinhart’s words mean?| A．He told the reason for starting ThredUP. |
| B．He thought ThredUP would be better in the future. |
| C．He encouraged customers to buy clothes in ThredUP. |
| D．He showed the difference between ThredUP and other big stores. |
①It can help customers to save money.
②It can bring all the customers back to big stores.
③Customers can buy and sell old clothes at the same store.
④It can help cut down air pollution.
| A．①② | B．②③ | C．①③ | D．②④ |
| A．People need more new clothes than before |
| B．People spend more time shopping online now. |
| C．Big department stores will have a bright future. |
| D．Second-hand clothes business is developing quickly. |
| A．Hurt. | B．Begin. | C．Produce. | D．Improve. |
| A．ThredUP achieved success in clothes business |
| B．Popular American stores sell used clothes |
| C．Young customers decide where stores are going |
| D．Second-hand stores will take the place of department stores. |
How the Grand Canyon was created remains one of the geology’s greatest mysteries. Some geologists believed that the process was a gradual one: the Colorado River which goes through the canyon slowly cut deeper and deeper into the ground over millions of years. But some rocks of the volcanoes, which have been discovered in the canyon recently, suggest that the canyon was down-cut instead.
Down-cutting is when a flood of water rushes over a place with enough force to cut deeply into the ground and leaves behind a canyon. Such a flood is usually released when a natural or man-made dam breaks.
Robert Webb, a research geologist, says natural dams seem to have formed and broken across the Colorado River several times during the last million years. The dams were built when lava from the nearby volcanoes flowed into the river. The lava hardened into hard rocks and blocked the river, causing it to back up and form a lake. Each time the lake grew so huge that it broke the rock dam, releasing a flash flood that furthered the down-cutting process and deepened the canyon.
Down-cutting is not only an earthly event. Satellite photos sent back from Mars suggest that the process has happened there, too, say many other scientists. The photos, taken by the Mars Global Surveyor, indicate that an enormous lake existed on Mars 3.5 billion years ago. The lake spilled into a large nearby hole. One edge of the hole broke, releasing a flash flood that quickly carved out a huge canyon. The finding of down-cutting on Mars is just one more piece of evidence that the formation of the Grand Canyon was not a gradual course.
1. In the past, the Grand Canyon was believed to be made by ________.| A．a river running slowly over years | B．a volcano breaking suddenly |
| C．the rock rising from the earth | D．the ground moving gradually |
A． | B． | C． | D． |
| A．introduce a topic | B．give an example | C．show new ideas | D．compare with others. |
| A．The Grand Canyon—A Wonder With Huge Lakes | B．The Grand Canyon—A Wonder With Breaking Dams |
| C．The Grand Canyon—Results of River Going | D．The Grand Canyon—Results of Flood Cutting |
【推荐3】In a world where technology is king, it is getting more and more difficult to keep up with the ‘R’s — VR., AR. MR’ (iPhone) XR and the list goes on.
Many people have trouble telling the differences between augmented-reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR). AR and VR mean that we experience something that isn’t there but it feels like it is. As a result, it is easy for users to be blown away and wonder what is real and what is not. In short, at the heart of AR and VR are two very similar technologies. Both offer experiences to users. most widely used in areas such as online shopping and as part of psychological treatments.
▲ The main difference lies in the way of transport. Simply put, VR ‘transports’ the user to another world instead of the real one. It uses computer technology to create a 3D environment. Users not only view a screen in front of them, but also use as many senses as possible, such as vision, hearing, touch, even smell. Imagine opening your eyes and seeing a new world created by the computer all around you: you can move in this environment and even communicate with it. That’s what VR is like. For example, VR has the power to make users feel as if they are falling. So sometimes while playing games, users become nervous and even scared.
AR, does not shut out the real world, but adds digital graphics to a live view often by using the camera on a smartphone. Users would not be “transported’ to another world but instead, they would see graphics created by computers with what they see in real life. It does not, change the whole view of what users see, unlike VR.
Thanks to new technology and successful games, AR and VR users already have a lot of choices. AR and VR are both powerful technologies which are still relatively new to many users. However, they have already begun to shake things up in the gaming world. The worlds of AR and VR aren’t just here; they’re getting bigger and better by the day.
1. Both AR and VR ________.| A．let users experience something that is already there |
| B．can only be used as part of psychological treatments |
| C．encourage users to go online shopping more frequently |
| D．use similar technologies to create virtual environments |
| A．What’s more, AR and VR will be widely used in more areas. |
| B．Besides, AR and VR have nothing to do with the real world. |
| C．In a way, AR and VR offer their users the same experience. |
| D．However, AR and VR can be quite different in many ways. |
A． | B． | C． | D． |
| A．AR and VR are so popular that everyone knows them well. |
| B．AR and VR are two very different and creative technologies. |
| C．AR and VR may not change people’s way of life in the future. |
| D．AR and VR are very powerful technologies and can go further. |
【推荐1】Is Technology Changing the Way Kids Develop Relationships?
Technology is redefining（重新定义）the meaning of relationships. For example, technology has enabled people who have never met nor will ever meet to call themselves friends. It makes the line between connections and real friends become unclear.
Because of technology’s omnipresence（遍在；无所不在)in the lives of most children, it is shaping how children feel about and develop relationships without fully consideration of the influence that it has on children’s relationships. Because of this growing influence of technology on them, children need to really understand where they are learning about relationships and whether what they are learning is healthy and will lay the groundwork for a future of positive relationships.
It’s necessary to recognize these changes because relationships play such a central role in who children become and the quality of the lives they lead. Relationships provide children with a foundation of values, love, security, and support. The quality of children’s early relationships acts as the model on which their future relationships are modeled and built. Later relationships with peers, teachers, and other influential people shape children’s beliefs about the world and the direction that their lives will take. In fact, there is no aspect(方面)of children’s lives that remains untouched by relationships.
At the same time, many of the changes in relationships caused by technology have been positive. Technology has also been a good thing to keep already-established（建立） relationships. If you have family or friends who live at a great distance, they no longer have to rely on the telephone or snail mail to stay connected. They can contact through email, texting and so on.
As with all value-neutral（价值中立的）advancements, there are both benefits and costs, positive uses and unhealthy misuses. My worry focuses on how children come to define relationships and the role that technology is playing in that process(过程). For example, I hear many young people talking about all of the “friends” they have made on the web. There’s no doubt that the web has enabled people everywhere to connect and communicate like never before, but I would argue that connection alone can not make a relationship.
1. The line between connections and real friends has become unclear because ________.| A．technology brings new change |
| B．it’s difficult to find real friends |
| C．it’s wise to connect with strangers |
| D．technology gives kids more free time |
| A．Relationships are easy to develop for children. |
| B．Children can understand relationships correctly. |
| C．Relationships connect with every part of children’s lives. |
| D．Children’s later relationships are more important than their early ones. |
| A．children can’t make friends on the web |
| B．technology is changing children’s lives |
| C．technology can’t cause positive influence |
| D．children dislike the growing influence of technology |
| A．To list the changes in relationships caused by technology. |
| B．To introduce a new type of relationships in kids’ daily life. |
| C．To tell the kids to develop their relationships with the help of the technology. |
| D．To remind the kids of thinking about the influence of technology on their relationships. |
【推荐2】There are some easy things you can do to protect the environment and the earth. Choose ideas from the list or come up with a few of your own.
Plant flowers, grass or trees.
Whenever you visit a park or a beach, take away what you bring there and keep rubbish in a bag until you can put it in a dustbin.
Turn off the tap when you brush your teeth. You can save some water by not letting it run. Also, use a glass cup instead of a paper cup, because this saves paper.
Turn off the lights, TV sets when you leave the room. This saves a lot of electricity.
Keep the doors and windows closed in winter to keep warm instead of using air conditions.
Give your old clothes to poor children you know and give your old books and magazines to library instead of throwing them away.
Use both sides of paper.
Stop pouring dirty water into the river or lakes nearby.
Encourage all your friends to do the same things you do to help protect the earth.
You don’t have to wait until Earth Day to do these things. Make every day Earth Day.
If everyone makes a contribution to protecting the environment, the world will become much more beautiful.
1. From the above, we know that this is_______.| A．a sigh | B．a proposal（倡议书） | C．an advertisement |
| A．to throw rubbish into a dustbin |
| B．to pour dirty water into the river |
| C．to save water by letting it run while we are brushing our teeth |
| A．Turn off the lights when you leave the room |
| B．Use both sides of paper |
| C．Use paper cup when you brush your teeth |
| A．10 | B．8 | C．9 |
| A．save money | B．plant trees | C．protect the earth |
【推荐3】When Major, the most respected pig, saw all the animals were present, he cleared his throat and began:
"Now, comrades (同志们) , I don't think I shall be with you for many months. Before I die, let me ask you a question. What is the nature of this life of ours? Let us face it: our lives are miserable and short. We are born, we are given just so much food as will keep the breath in our bodies, and those of us who are able to do it are forced to work to the last
"Why then do we continue in this miserable? Because nearly the whole of the produce of our hard work is stolen from beings. There, comrades, is the answer to all our problems. It is summed up in a single word- Man. Man is the only real enemy we have. Remove (消灭) Man from the scene, and the basic cause of hunger and overwork is ended for ever. "
"And now, comrades, I will sing an old song that came into my dream last night to you. I am sure, it was a song sung by the animals of long ago and have been lost to memory for marry years. It is called Animals of England."
His voice was hoarse (沙哑的), but he sang well enough to throw the animals into the wildest excitement. Almost before Major had reached the end, they had begun singing it for themselves.
Unluckily, the singing woke Mr. Jones, the farm owner, who jumped out of bed, thinking that there was a fox in the yard. He took the gun which always stood in a comer of his bedroom, and let fly 6 shots (射击) into the darkness. The pellets (子弹) flew into the wall of the yard and the meeting broke up hurriedly. Everyone ran to his own sleeping place. The birds jumped onto their trees, the animals settled down in the straw, and the whole farm was asleep in a moment.
1. Why did Major make the speech?| A．To encourage the animals to fight against Man. |
| B．To teach the animals to sing an old song. |
| C．To say goodbye to the animals before death. |
| D．To complain about his personal miserable life. |
| A．common | B．boring | C．lonely | D．painful |
| A．The animals on the farm were brave. |
| B．Major's speech was nearly successful. |
| C．Major and Mr. Jones were friendly to each other. |
| D．Mr. Jones forced his animals to work from birth to death. |
| A．To break up the animals' meeting. |
| B．To kill the fox he saw in the yard. |
| C．To make sure his gun was in good condition. |
| D．To protect the animals he raised on his farm. |
