Quiet now, please. I want to give you some     1    (inform) about our school visit to the Local Times newspaper office on Oct 11th. I think it will be a really     2    (interest) day. Right, be here and ready     3    (go) by 7:45 at the latest because the journey will take fifty     4    (minute). That’s quite early, I know. Please tell your parents that we will go by coach, not by train     5     school bus. We’ll visit the printing machine     6     the morning. And in the afternoon one of the journalists will give us a talk about how the paper is     7    (make). If you want to learn a little the process before we go, you can find videos on     8    (they) website about the writing and printing of the paper. It may be hot, so bring some water with you for the journey, but there’s no need to bring any food. They’re going to give us some nice sandwiches there for lunch.     9    (final) please remember it’s important to wear your uniform that day. Now, does anyone have any questions about     10     visit?

Here comes a new notice. Students in first and second grade should have no written exams while students in other     1     (grade) at primary schools should only have one final exam for every semester, the Ministry of Education said    2     Monday.

In a new notice aimed at    3     (reduce) the excessive academic workload of primary and middle school students, the ministry said middle schools are allowed    4     (organize) one test at the middle of the semester and one at the end of the semester.

Some schools have organized too many tests,    5     are too difficult. As    6     result, students have to frequently study hard, leading to exam-oriented education and a heavy study burden. Meanwhile, the practice has harmed the students’ psychological and physical health and must    7     (correct).

Local education authorities should not organize regional or interscholastic exams,and schools and classes should not organize weekly or monthly tests the notice said.

In addition, schools should    8     (strict) regulate the content of their final exams and make sure that the    9     (difficult) does not exceed the national syllabus.

The exam questions should focus on basic knowledge and skills, and the number of questions    10     (focus) on rote (机械的) memory should be reduced.

Moreover, the exam results should be divided into four to five grades, without giving specific scores.

Students at a primary school in Hangzhou had their first class     1    March 1st on movable type. This is     2     ancient Chinese printing system.

The West Lake Primary School in Zhejiang Province introduced the course at the beginning of this new term. So far, the school     3    (invite) an expert in Chinese characters culture to the campus,     4     major responsibility is to teach students how to use the ancient printing technology. Students attend lectures on the history of movable type along with     5    (interest) classes on typesetting and printing. They then print their own documents, applying     6     they've learned. One student printed her     7    (new) written essay “Do the traditional red envelopes kids receive belong to them or their parents?”   

Known as one of the four great     8     (invent) of ancient China, movable type printing     9     (invent) by Bi Sheng in the 1040s during the Song Dynasty, and it is the world's first system of movable type printing.

The school said the course is intended     10    (improve) the students' awareness of Chinese characters and their appreciation of Chinese culture.