1 . What should you do if there’s an earthquake at school? How can you protect yourself when you are caught in a stampede(踩踏)? March 25th this year provides you with a good chance to learn about safety.

This day is called the National Day of Education on the Safety of Elementary and Middle School Students(NDESEMSS). The theme of the day this year is to give students more knowledge about safety and make sure their lives safe.

A survey done by the China Youth and Children Research Center showed that school accidents kill more elementary and middle school students than anything else. The main accidents come from stampedes, earthquakes, fires and sports injuries(伤害).

What can we do to keep ourselves safe? Staying calm(镇静) is the first and most important rule when facing accidents. But different accidents have different self-protection advice.

A stampede is possible anywhere. The larger a human crowd gets, the more likely stampedes become. When students around you begin to push, stand still and try to hold onto something, or stay in a corner until the crowd leaves. If you fall down in a moving crowd, cover your head with both hands.

Lean to one side, curl up your body and bend your legs.

Earthquakes are common natural disasters(灾难). When you feel the ground shake, drop down, take cover under a desk and hold on. You should stay indoors until the shaking stops. If you are outdoors, don’t stay near buildings, trees or power lines.

When there’s a fire, follow the teachers’ instructions, leave the classroom quickly and use a piece of cloth to cover your mouth and nose so that you don’t breathe in smoke.

1. What’s the theme of NDESEMSS this year?

A．To give students more knowledge about safety and make sure their lives safe.

B．To give students more knowledge about health and make sure they eat healthily.

C．To give students more knowledge about science and make their study better.

D．To give students more knowledge about accidents and make them run away.

2. According to this passage, which of the following is TRUE?

A．Car accidents kill the most elementary and middle school students of all accidents.

B．When there’s a fire, you should use cloth to cover your mouth and nose.

C．If you fall down in a moving crowd, you can do nothing but wait there.

D．When an earthquake happens, you should stay near buildings or trees.

3. What’s the best title for this passage?

A．Be afraid of accidents	B．The earthquake is coming
C．Run away from accidents	D．How to protect yourself

4. If the writer continues to write this passage, what will he write about?

A．The changes of fires.	B．The reasons of accidents.
C．Sports injuries.	D．The bad side of smoking.

2 . Bully for you

The makers of a hotly debated computer game about bullying have decided to go ahead and put it into market despite calls for it     1    (forbid). In the game, players take on the role of a new student at a school and have to fight the bullies, by striking them or hitting them     2     a baseball bat.

Critics have said that the game encourages     3    (violent). The makers, however, disagree and say that, while the game might be a little violent at times, it is just an     4     (amuse) look at school life. Besides, they argue that the fighting in the game       5    ( direct) against the bullies to protect students who are being bullied. The makers also say that the players will learn to stand up to bullies,     6     use their strength or power to hurt or frighten other people. “Nobody should bully others just because they want to feel stronger or    7    (important),” said the makers.

A British politician, a former minister, has called for it to be banned as it might have     8    negative influence on the way young people think of violent behaviors.

Anti-bullying     9     (charity) that fight against school bullying have said that the game might make people respond violently to bullies, which might make things more complicated and result in injuries. In other words, people     10    (possible) get hurt because of the game.

3 .        Due to the increasing number of violence acts produced in schools all over the world, more and more parents prefer to have their children educated at home rather than at school. This way they can ensure their safety and well-being, although teachers and school representatives are trying to improve the situation in schools by increasing the number of the persons in charge of the safety of the students.
       The main reason for violence acts are the films and cartoons that fill the children’s time. They want to do everything they watch on TV and never think of the consequences, and they may hurt a classmate or a teacher.
       On the other hand, parents are not fully satisfied with the children’s results obtained in classes and they consider private classes would have better results.
     When a teacher has to watch 30 students in class he can’t probably see what each of them is doing, how he is writing, or if he understands the explanations. At home the teacher can explain in details everything the child doesn’t understand as many times as he considers proper.
     And many times the child grows fond of the teacher at home, who becomes his best friend, and who helps him whenever he needs someone to talk to.
       However, the best solution would be a mixture between the education received at school and that at home, because school makes children communicate and socialize. Keeping a child at home for fear there might happen something bad to him only makes the child’s character weak and prevents him from knowing what real life is. Staying in a crystal ball only does harm to the child.
       All in all, schools have been created to help children, not to harm them, so it’s best to keep children in these special places, where they learn, laugh, have fun and make new friends.
1. The writer’s purpose in writing the text is to ________.

A．teach parents the ways to keep their children safe

B．show solutions to developing children’s character

C．explain the main reason for violence acts in schools

D．analyze an education problem and give opinions

2. Which of the following might be the best title of the passage?

A．Advantages and Disadvantages of Private Classes

B．Who is to Blame, Parents or Schools?

C．Which Is Better, School Study or Home Study?

D．The Relationship between Teachers and Children

3. What does “a crystal ball” in the passage refer to?

A．A toy that can be used for entertainment.

B．A safe and comfortable environment.

C．A round object that is made of crystal.

D．An obstacle that is hard to overcome.

4. We can infer from the passage that ________.

A．violence TV programs have bad effects on children’s behavior

B．the teacher at home is more patient than the teacher at school

C．children today are weak from lack of sense of right and wrong

D．there are too many students in class for a teacher to teach

4 . Last August, Joe and Mary Mahoney began looking at colleges for their 17-year-old daughter, Maureen. With a checklist of criteria (衡量标准)in hand, the Dallas family looked around the country visiting half a dozen schools. They sought a university that offered the teenager’s intended major, one located near a large city, and a campus where their daughter would be safe.
“The safety issue is a big one,” says Joe Mahoney, who quickly discovered he wasn’t alone in his worries. On campus tours other parents voiced similar concerns, and the same question was always asked: what about crime? But when college officials always gave the same answer -----“That’s not a problem here,”-----Mahoney began to feel uneasy.
“No crime whatever?” comments Mahoney today. “I just don’t buy it.” Nor should he: in 1999 the U.S. Department of education had reports of nearly 400,000 serious crimes on or around our campuses. “Parents need to understand that times have changed since they went to college,” says David Nichols, author of Creating a Safe Campus. “Campus crime mirrors the rest of the nation.”
But getting accurate information isn’t easy. Colleges must report crime statistics(统计数字) by law, but some hold back for fear of bad publicity（关注）, leaving the honest ones looking dangerous. “The truth may not always be serious,” warns S. Daniel Carter of Security on Campus, Inc., the nation’s leading campus safety watchdog group.
To help concerned parents, Carter promised to visit campuses and talk to experts around the country to find out major crime issues and effective solutions.
1. It is often difficult to get correct information on campus crime because some colleges ____.

A．receive too many visitors	B．mirror the rest of the nation
C．hide the truth of campus crime	D．have too many watchdog groups

2. The underlined word “buy” in the third paragraph means _____.

A．mind

B．admit

C．believe

D．expect

3. We learn from the text that “the honest ones” in the fourth paragraph most probably refers to colleges _____.

A．that are protected by campus security	B．that report campus crimes by law
C．that are free from campus crime	D．that enjoy very good publicity

4. What is the text mainly about?

A．Exact campus crime statistics.	B．Crimes on or around campuses.
C．Effective solutions to campus crime.	D．Concerns about kids’ campus safety.