1 . Understanding what teens are talking about has been bothering parents and teachers for ages. One clever high school teacher in Massachusetts found a solution that has people on Twitter saying they’re “willing to pay money for it.”
James Callahan of Lowell High School created a spreadsheet of all the colloquial (口语的) terms his students have used since September along with his attempt to explain them in plain language, and people on social media are enjoying themselves.
On Monday, one of Callahan’s students posted a photo of a four-page document the sociology teacher created, titled the “Callahan’s Generation Z Dictionary.”
In the alphabetized green-colored column on the left, the professor typed out phrases like “sis,” “spill the tea,” and “snack.” In the yellow column on the right, he attempt to explain each phrase using a formal translation of what the students say.
The student told USA TODAY that she referred to Callahan as a professor in the tweet because “the word teacher didn’t seem dignified enough to describe him.” She also said that students get college credit for taking the introduction to sociology course.
Within 24 hours, the tweet received over 300,000 likes and 93,000 Retweets.
Some of the people who responded to the tweet applauded the professor’s interest in teenage culture, other made their own contribution to the list. “Yeet” was a popular suggestion — It’s a versatile word that can be used as an exclamation, a verb, or even a noun, according to the Urban Dictionary.
“The typical teacher-student relationship involves a rigid power structure, but in my experience, I’ve found that students are more engaged and perform better if I am able to reach them where they are,” Callahan said.
“Language is changing all the time, and every generation creates their own vocabulary bank of slang,” Callahan said, The students created it, I am sort of just the archivist (档案管理员)!
1. What does the underlined word “it” refer to in Paragragh 1?| A．Twitter. | B．Solution. |
| C．Understanding. | D．Attempt. |
| A．Simple. | B．Interesting. |
| C．Admirable. | D．Hardworking. |
| A．They express their surprise. | B．They help translate the words. |
| C．They create move vocabulary. | D．They take quite a fancy to it. |
| A．To improve students’ learning efficiency. |
| B．To help students get college credit. |
| C．To learn a new popular language. |
| D．To take up a new profession. |
Forget a pen and paper! This new-fashioned school relies on iPad’s, touch screens, projectors and even electronic locker keys. The Philadelphia School of the Future’s main goal is to equip students with the most knowledge in technology fields. While it struggled back when it opened in 2006, it is now one of the most in-demand schools.
Hamburger University
No, this school isn’t about perfecting the hamburger. Actually, it sort of is! The McDonald’s training facility is where restaurant managers go to learn the craft (手艺). From making a hamburger to dealing with complaining customers, it takes a lot to handle the running of Micky D’s. Also, imagine having Hamburger University on your resume (简历), now that would make you stand out from the crowd!
Real Life Clown (小丑) College
While movies and televisions shows love to make fun of kids and adults alike running off to join clown college or the circus but turns out, it wasn’t made up. The Ringling Brothers set up a number of courses and schools around the United States to teach willing students the art of clowning around. It’s a tough job alright? Imaging wearing a bright red nose while kids scream at you for a balloon animal.
Charles Howard Santa Claus School
Set up in the 1930’s this famous institution aims to produce the very best Santa’s. Potential Mr Claus’ will learn how to interact with children and of course, how to laugh like the real deal. While you wouldn’t take the course unless you planned on being a professional Santa, it sure would be fun to play dress up for a day!
1. What do we know about The Philadelphia School of the Future?| A．It has been run smoothly since 2006. |
| B．It employs digital device in fruitful ways. |
| C．Its popularity has declined in recent years. |
| D．It aims to spread knowledge in many fields. |
| A．The Philadelphia School of the Future. | B．Hamburger University. |
| C．Real Life Clown College. | D．Charles Howard Santa Claus School. |
| A．Entertaining. | B．Ancient. |
| C．Wild. | D．Unusual. |
3 . Should doctors ever lie to benefit their patient — to speed recovery or to cover the coming of death? In medicine as in law, government, and other lines of work, the requirements of honesty often seem dwarfed (变矮小) by greater needs: the need to protect from brutal news or to uphold a promise of secrecy; to advance the public interest.
What should doctors say, for example, to a 46-year-old man coming in for a routine physical checkup just before going on vacation with his family who, though he feels in perfect health, is found to have a form of cancer that will cause him to die within six months? Is it best to tell him the truth? If he asks, should the doctor reject that he is ill, or minimize fee gravity of the illness? Should they at least hide the truth until after the family vacation?
Doctors face such choices often. At times, they see important reasons to lie for the patient’s own sake; in their eyes, such lies differ sharply from self-serving ones.
Studies show that most doctors sincerely believe that the seriously ill patients do not want to know the truth about their condition, and that informing them risks destroying their hope, so that they may recover more slowly, or deteriorate (恶化) faster, perhaps even commit suicide (自杀).
But other studies show that, contrary to the belief of many physicians; a great majority of patients do want to be told the truth, even about serious illness, and feel cheated when they learn that they have been misled. We are also learning that truthful information, humanly conveyed, helps patients cope with illness: help them tolerate pain better, need less medicine, and even recover faster after operation.
There is urgent need to debate this issue openly. Not only in medicine, but in other professions as well, practitioners may find themselves repeatedly in difficulty where serious consequences seem avoidable only through deception (欺骗). Yet the public has every reason to know professional deception, for such practices are peculiarly likely to become deeply rooted, to spread, and to trust. Neither in medicine, nor in law, government, or the social sciences can there be comfort in the old saying, “What you don’t know can’t hurt you.”
1. What is the passage mainly about?| A．Whether patients really want to know the truth of their condition. |
| B．Whether patients should be told the truth of their illness. |
| C．Whether different studies should be carried on. |
| D．Whether doctors are honesty with their patients. |
| A．tell the patient the truth as soon as possible |
| B．choose to lie to him about his condition at that moment |
| C．tell him to shorten the family vacation |
| D．advise him to cancel the family vacation |
| A．Sometimes government tells lies because they need to meet the public interest. |
| B．Doctors believe if they lie, those seriously-ill patients will recover more quickly. |
| C．Truthful information helps patients deal with their illness in some cases. |
| D．Many patients don’t want to know the truth, especially about serious illness. |
| A．supportive | B．indifferent |
| C．opposed | D．neutral |
