Now, there is a new-type school in New York, which has no everyday lessons, no class teachers and even no school buildings. It is called “City-as-School”. The name just means the city itself is the place where students learn their lessons. They are from the age of 15 to 18. The students choose areas of work which interest them. Then they help to do that work. One girl spends her week in a government office helping the public with problems like housing. Then she goes to help in a theatre for a day and she spends a week for first-year courses at college.
Well, students have to pass Maths and science exams before they enter the “school”. These subjects are not easy to provide in“City-as-School”. Teachers watch the progress of the students. The success rate (比率) is high. 80% of the students go to college after the “City-as-School”.
The students like the duty of their work. They have the sense of purpose. They know a lot about different kinds of work in the city. One of the students, Lizette Martinez, writes “I want to say that I do not know where I would be right now if I had never become part of City-as-School. Leaving my regular high school and going to City-as-School was the best decision I have ever made. The way the school works to get you to go out there and learn different fields instead of sitting in a classroom is wonderful. For all those who are in between school and dropping out, go to CAS and it will change your life forever.”
City-as-School High School is the nation’s leading (引导) external (外部地) learning or experiential (来自经验的) learning model for high school students.
1.What can we learn about“City-as-School”?
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A．It has no teachers. |
B．It has no school buildings. |
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C．It has only girl students. |
D．It is the only school in the city. |
2.What do students do in“City-as-School” most of the time?
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A．They do whatever they like. |
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B．They learn Maths and Science. |
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C．They help with work in a certain area. |
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D．They learn all the college courses. |
3.According to the passage,“City-as–School” can help _________.
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A．all the students go to college |
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B．students forget the duty of their work |
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C．students earn much money while studying |
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D．students learn a lot about different kinds of work |
4.What is the best title for the passage?
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A．A New City |
B．A New School |
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C．A New-type School |
D．A Girl in New York |
Have successful people ever felt sad? Do they have any “secrets” to success? The answers to these questions can be found in US president Barack Obama’s “back to school” speech. Here is an excerpt(摘录) from his speech.
I know that sometimes, you get the sense that you can be rich and successful without any hard work—that your ticket to success is through pop music or basketball or being a TV star, when chances are, you’re not going to be any of those things.
But the truth is, being successful is hard. You won’t love every subject you study. Not all the homework will seem rather important to your life right this minute. And you may not succeed at everything the first time you try.
That’s OK. Some of the most successful people in the world are the ones who’ve had the most failures (the opposite of success). JK Rowling’s first Harry Potter book was turned down 12 times before it finally came out. Michael Jordan was cut from his high school basketball team, and he lost hundreds of games and missed thousands of shots (投篮) during his career. But he once said, “I have failed over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.”
These people succeeded because they understand that you can’t let your failures beat(打败) you—you have to let them teach you. You have to let them show you what to do differently next time.
No one’s born being good at things. You become good at things through hard work.
Don’t be afraid to ask questions. Don’t be afraid to ask for help when you need it. I do that every day. Asking for help isn’t a sign of weakness; it’s a sign of strength. It shows you have the courage to tell when you don’t know something, and to learn something new.
And even when you’re struggling(奋斗), even when you’re discouraged (泄气), and you feel other people have given up on you—don’t ever give up on yourself. Because when you give up on yourself, you give up on your country.
1.Why does Barack Obama mention (提到) JK Rowling and Michael Jordan in the third paragraph?
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A．To compare these two famous persons. |
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B．To explain that the more failures he has, the more successful he is. |
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C．If you want to be successful, you should fail first. |
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D．To show that failure is the mother of success. |
2.Which of the following statements is NOT true?
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A．No one can be successful without working hard. |
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B．Failure can be good if you treat it in a right way. |
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C．Those who believe in themselves shouldn’t ask others for help. |
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D．One should try his best to make his dream come true. |
3.Which of the following has the closest meaning to the underlined sentence?
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A．One shouldn’t ask questions because it is a sign of strength. |
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B．One should believe in himself though he will face much difficulty. |
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C．One doesn’t have to work hard when he has failed several times. |
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D．One doesn’t have to ask for help because it is a sign of weakness. |
What’s the most important thing for you to have in your life? Somebody mentions hard-work, others suggest knowledge, love and luck.
If you arrange the 26 English letters alphabetically(按字母表的顺序) and use numbers to represent each of them, for example, 1 for a, 2 for b, 3 for c…, you can change an English word into a number. So hard-work becomes 8+1+18+4+23+15+18+11="98," meaning 98 is its mark; knowledge: 11+14+15+23 +12+5+4+7+5="96," while love: 12+15+22+5="54," and luck: 12+21+3+11="47," a small mark. None of these words can give one a full mark. What about money or prayer(祈祷)? They can’t, either.
Then what else? Don’t be worried. You can always find an answer to a problem in your life, when you change your way of looking at things or doing things, or your attitude(态度).Yes, attitude is the word. See for yourself: attitude:1+20+20+9+20+21+4+5=100，a full mark.
Different attitudes lead to different courses of life. Most times people hope for a better life. It is possible that one will have a change for the better after one has changed one’s attitude.
When you change your manner and became friendly towards others, you’ll meet more smiling faces towards you. In the same way, if you take a positive (积极地) attitude towards failure(失败), you’ll find it’s also rewarding though it has caused you losses.
1.In the writer’s opinion, what is the most important thing in a person’s life?
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A．Hard-work. |
B．Knowledge. |
C．Money. |
D．Attitude. |
2.According to the passage, if you meet with problems, the best way out is to _______.
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A．ask for help from others |
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B．say your prayers to God |
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C．change your attitude |
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D．try maths-solving methods (方法) |
3.From the passage we can learn that ______.
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A．different attitudes come from different courses of life |
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B．mathematics can solve every problem easily in our daily life |
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C．failure sometimes can bring you good if you take a positive attitude |
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D．none of the English words except “attitude” equals to 100 or more |
Life in the 22nd century will be different from life in the 21th century，because many changes will take place in the new century. But what will the changes be?
The population(人口) is 1 fast．There will be more and more people in the world and most of them will live 2 than before． 3 will be much smaller and more useful，and there will be at least one in every home．And computer studies will be one of the important subjects at 4 ．
People will work fewer hours than they did in the 21th century，and they will have more free time for sports， 5 TV and traveling．Traveling will be more 6 . And many more people will go to other countries for holidays．
More land will be used for building new towns and houses．Then there will be less room for cows and sheep，so 7 will be more expensive．Maybe no one will eat it every day， 8 they eat more vegetables and fruit．Maybe people will be healthier．
Work in the future will be 9 ，too．Dangerous and hard work will be done by robots(机器人)． 10 of this，many people will not have enough work to do．This will be a problem．
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B．less; exercises; heath |
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D．less; exercise; healthy |
We don’t have enough pens , Give us .
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A．to write; much more |
B．to write with; a few more |
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C．writing with; few more |
D．writing; another two |
