These days, Chinese children are sometimes busier on weekends than weekdays because they have to take so many after-school classes. Many of them are learning exam skills so that they can get into a good high school and later a good university. Others are practicing sports so that they can compete and win. However, this doesn’t only happen in China.
The Taylors are a typical American family. Life for Cathy Taylor’s three children is very busy. “On most days after school, Cathy says, “I take one of my two boys to basketball practice and my daughter to football training. Then I have to take my other son to piano lessons. Maybe I could cut out a few of their activities, but I believe these activities are important for my children’s future. I really want them to be successful.” However, the tired children don’t get home until after 7: 00 p.m. They have a quick dinner, and then it’s time for homework.
Linda Miller, a mother of three, knows all about such stress. “In some families, competition starts very young and continues until the kids get older,” she says. “Mothers send their small kids to all kinds of classes. And they are always comparing them with other children. It’s crazy. I don’t think that’s fair. Why don’t they just let their kids be kids? People shouldn’t push their kids so hard.”
Doctors say too much pressure is not good for a child’s development. Dr. Alice Green says all these activities can cause a lot of stress for children. “Kids should have time to relax and think for themselves, too. Although it’s normal to want successful children, it’s even more important to have happy children.”
1. What’s the common problem for Chinese and American families?2. What’s Cathy Taylor’s idea about so many after-school activities?
3. What does Linda Miller think about after-school activities?
4. What’s Dr. Alice Green’s opinion about after-school activities?
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Cooking should be considered as art just like any other activity which requires skills and knowledge. It is often said that students are supposed to learn scientific facts as well as how to prepare meals. The following will explain why cooking should be taught in schools.
Cooking is an important skill in life.
Schools are supposed to teach knowledge to the students so that they can lead successful independent lives when they are out of school. Also, they can step into the world knowing how to make a living.
Cooking helps discover future career.
When schools offer cooking lessons, students will show an interest in it and might take cooking as a career. This will give them the chance to perfect their basic skills and be creative in the kitchen.
Cooking avoids wasting money.
One of the main reasons why cooking should be taught in schools is that the students always use a lot of money to buy ready-made food, while in the real sense they could prepare a nice meal with less cost by buying the required ingredients.
Cooking betters math learning.
Schools do not just teach how to prepare delicious meals. Students are also taught to follow the instructions in a standard when mixing ingredients. If it is, ‘add 1/4 spoon of salt,’ students should only add that amount. So there is no more or less.
Cooking Should Be Taught in Schools. | ||
| Opinion | Students should learn scientific knowledge and cooking skills. | |
| An important skill in life | ·Students can lead independent lives ·Students can depend on themselves for basic living after graduation. | |
| Discovering future career. | ·Students might be ·Students can perfect their basic skills and be creative in the kitchen. | |
| Students can prepare nice dishes with less cost. | ||
| Bettering math Learning | Students are taught to follow the instructions | |
Do you know many students are not healthy now? Let’s find why they are not healthy.
Many students don’t play sports. They know sports are good for their health, but they don’t like playing sports. Some students only watch them on TV. And some of them only like watching TV and playing computer games. They often say, “Play soccer? Oh, it sounds boring! Play basketball? Oh, it sounds difficult!”
And some boys and girls don’t like vegetables. They don’t have carrots for lunch, and they don’t have tomatoes for dinner. But vegetables and fruit are healthy food. They need to eat them every day. But they like eating hamburgers, French fries, ice-cream... They are not healthy food.
Are you one of the boys or girls? Do you want to be healthy? If (如果) yes, you must eat well and play sports every day!
1、2题完成句子；3～5题简略回答问题。
1. We can know many students are
2. Some of the students only like watching TV and playing
3. What does the underlined word “them” refer to? (画线单词“them”指代什么)
4. What food is not healthy? (列举文中提到的其中两项)
5. If you want to be healthy, what can you do?
Do you know that a student can produce up to 240 pounds of school waste and lots of waste gas during a term? This includes transportation, food, paper, pens, pencils and so on.
Transportation
Many parents like driving their kids to school every day. We all know waste gas from cars is a main cause of air pollution. If parents who live in a neighborhood can drive their kids to school by turns each day, that’ll be better. Another way of going green is to walk to school if students live near it.
Food
It is surprising that only one primary school could produce up to 19,000 pounds of lunch waste each year. That is only one school. One way to help take care of the environment is to stop using plastic bags. There are all kinds of environmental boxes for students to put their food in.
Paper, pens and pencils
A lot of paper is thrown away by American students. They throw away about 1.6 billion pens every year. They waste many pens and the chemicals of them are bad for the environment. Much more pencils are thrown away than pens. Pencils are made of trees, so if more pencils are thrown away, more trees will be cut down. So students should reuse paper, pens and pencils instead of throwing them away.
Backpacks
As fashion comes and goes, almost every kid needs a new backpack every year. They can save a lot of money and materials(材料) if they reuse the same schoolbags.
Students and the environment | |
| Transportation | If possible, parents in a neighborhood should take Students can go to school on |
| Students should use environmental | |
| Paper, pens and pencils | About 1.6 billion pens are |
| Pencils are made of | |
| Backpacks | Almost every student needs a new backpack every year as |
June, July and August are vacation months for American school children. Some students do not take any summer classes, but they would often need to learn lessons again when they go to school in the fall. So many students go to summer schools. Some summer schools are not like the usual schools. Some teachers at these schools are trying（尽力）to make summer schools more interesting.
The students are reading loudly in a third-grade class at a summer school in Dallas, Texas. They are also studying art. Their teacher Ron Oliver works to put the two subjects together. All students like the art subject. “When I was drawing, I felt relaxed and happy,” Roy, one of the students said.
Gloria, a math teacher, thinks art helps with memory（记忆）. “We need kids to learn reading and math. Art gets them excited about being there every day.” he says.
1. How many vacation months do American school students have?2. Why are summer schools not like the usual schools?
3. How did Roy feel when he was drawing?
4. What does Gloria think of art?
5. What is the title of the passage?
【推荐2】Liu Yiran, 18, remembers clearly how her schoolmates bullied (欺凌) her.
Liu went to a high school mainly for Chinese students in southern California, US. On March 30 last year, about ten of her schoolmates took her to a park nearby their school. There, they forced Liu to take off her clothes, hit her and burnt her with cigarettes. It went on for more than five hours, and it was all because of disagreements over a dinner bill, their hometowns and a boy, reported the Los Angeles Times.
When this reached the public, people were shocked. And now the bullies will get punishments from US laws. Three of the bullies, who are 19, were sent to prison on Feb 17. Zhai Yunyao, the main bully, faces 13 years in prison. Yang Yuhan will get 10 years and Zhang Xinlei will get six years.
The three students were “deeply shocked” after learning this. They thought they were just playing a trick on Liu and would only get punished by their school.
This just shows how ignorant (无知) Chinese students are about US laws and bullying, wrote China Daily.
In China, bullying will only be punished by law when it causes very serious physical harm. However, there is other bullying, such as lighter physical or even emotional harm. But people don’t pay enough attention to school bullying, taking it only as small fights between students, according to TangJun, from Renmin University of China.
Thus, education about bullying is important, said legaldaily. com, as well as more specific laws and anti-bullying (反欺凌) school programs. “Don’t think school bullying is uncommon, and then it may be solved,” it wrote.
1. Did the bully which happened to Liu Yiran take place in their school?_____________________________________________________
2. How long did the bully last?
_____________________________________________________
3. Which newspaper gave the details of the bully case in the passage, the Los Angeles Times or China Daily?
_____________________________________________________
4. How did the bullies feel when they learnt their punishment from US laws?
_____________________________________________________
5. What is the attitude to school bullying in China according to TangJun, from Renmin University of China?
_____________________________________________________
6. What is your suggestion to solve the school bullying?
_____________________________________________________
Their parents say, “Our children are very good. They like popular music, and they play it in their own rooms. They help in the house. You know they feel bored sometimes because there’s nothing interesting in the neighbourhood, no clubs and no sports. They don’t have anything to do.”
A teacher says that he thinks most young people are very kind. He thinks that it’s not bad for young people to like loud music because it can give them lots of energy and make them feel excited. Also, a lot of young people work very hard at school, and they can get good jobs later.
Lewis, a fourteen-year-old boy said, “I have much homework to do. I felt tired all day. But loud music can make me happy. It helps me do well in all my lessons.”
| Young people’s | They |
| Parents’ idea | Their children are not |
| A teacher’s idea | Most young people are very |
| Lewis’s idea | Loud music helps |
【推荐1】You can make the world a brighter place. How? Here are a few ideas. Which have you tried? Which would you like to try?
You can volunteer.
Clean up litter in a park. Pick up plastic on a beach. Lend a helping hand to a neighbor in need.
You can raise money.
Hold a bake sale. Run a lemonade stand. You can donate the money you earn. It can help a cause you care about.
You can lead a food drive.
Get your friends together. Collect canned food. Ask neighbors to donate too. Bring the canned goods to a food bank in your own.
You can donate.
Do you have clothes that no longer fit? Do you have toys you no longer play with? Give them to a local shelter.
1. Which have you tried?2. Which would you like to try?
3. Who can make the world a brighter place?
4. How can you make the world a brighter place?
5. Which title is better, Ways to Give or Ways to Take?
For convenience, plenty of people prefer having a takeaway to cooking at home. Now there is an app through which people can enjoy delicious and cheap takeaway food.
Too Good To Go, an app (程序) being used in the UK, allows users to order leftover (剩余的) food at a low price from restaurants. The purpose is to reduce food waste, as lots of restaurants usually throw away the food that can still be eaten at the end of the day.
Users just need to pick a restaurant and pay through the app. Then they pick up their food at planned times usually around closing time or after peak (高峰期的) meal times.
3.“Food waste is one of the biggest problems we have in this world.” one creator of the app said. “The restaurant industry is wasting about 600,000 tons of food each year.” By the end of August, Too Good To Go had helped save about 600 meals in the UK.
4.Users also have the chance to give meals to people who are in need. They usually pay one pound (英镑) or more through the app to help them. By the end of August, more than 1,100 meals had been donated (捐赠).
Too Good To Go isn’t the first app to try to deal with food waste. In Spain, the Yo No Desperdicio app allows people to exchange leftover food with each other. In the US, the Food Cowboy app allows food shops to sell “ugly vegetables” that most customers don’t buy to charities and food banks that need them.
1—2题根据短文内容回答下列问题；3—4题将短文中划线的句子译成汉语。5题请给短文拟一个适当的英文标题。
1. How many apps are mentioned in the passage? List them all.
2. Choose your favorite app and give your reason(s) why you like it.
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【推荐3】July is really interesting. We have fun things in our school this month. Let’s look at some of them!
Book Sale
On July 2nd, we have a book sale in the school library. Students can ① old books to their classmates and teachers. We can buy nice books at very good prices.
Sports Day
We all know doing sports is good for our health, so there is a Sports Day in our school on July 10th.We can play basketball, tennis, Ping-pong and soccer on that day. I think we can have a good time.
Art Festival
The art festival is on July 20th. I’m so ② about it. I can play the piano. I like it. Do you like it?
School Trip
On the last day of this month, we have a school trip. We go to a great park, with the students and teachers. It’s really interesting.
任务一：请根据短文内容，在文中①、②处填入所缺单词，使文意通顺。（每空限填一词）
1. ①
任务二：阅读短文，从
2. All of us know it’s good for our health to play sports.
任务三：将文中划线的句子翻译成汉语。
3.
任务四：根据短文内容回答问题。
4. Where do they have the book sale?
5. How many fun things do they have in their school?
