A young girl sits at her desk, reviewing her homework for the evening. English: Read three chapters and write a report. Math: Complete 30 problems. Science: Do a worksheet, front and back. French: Study new words for tomorrow’s test. It’s going to be a long night.
This happens to students in America. Now it’s time to start a homework revolution(变革).
According to the National Education Association, a student should be assigned (布置) no more than 10 minutes per grade level per night. For example, a first grader should only have 10 minutes of homework, a second-grader, 20 minutes, and so on. This means that a student in my grade—seventh—should have no more than 70 minutes of work each night. Yet this is often doubled, sometimes even worse!
It’s no good giving students too much homework. According to research, kids are developing more illness at school, such as stomachaches, headaches and sleep problems than before.
Some teachers assign more homework, but they are not the only ones to blame. “Many teachers are under greater pressure than ever before,” says Kylene Beers, President of the National Council for teachers of English, “Some of it comes from parents, some from the wish for high scores on tests.” Teachers who are under pressure feel the need to assign more homework.
Some people have different ideas, saying that homework prepares kids for doing better in high school, better in college, and getting better job in the future. But too much homework is sapping students’ strength, curiosity（削弱学生的个性和好奇心), and most importantly, their love of learning, is that really what teachers and parents want?
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Something about 1. | |
An 2. girl’s homework for one evening | There are four subjects, including English, Math, Science and French. |
Results of too much homework | It can make the kids 3. more illness, such as stomachaches, headaches and sleep problems. |
4. for assigning too much homework | The teachers think it’s necessary to assign more homework. The parents wish the kids to get high scores on tests. |
Ideas about homework from different people | Advantages: It’s good for the kids to get further study and the better jobs in the future. Disadvantages: The students are likely to be 5. of strength, curiosity and love of learning. |
With the development of science and technology, our daily life is becoming more colorful and more convenient (便利).
An Underwater Hotel It looks like a spaceship but it is actually a picture of an underwater hotel. A company plans to build in the sea which is about 18 metres below the surface(表面).The whole building is underwater and you can get to it by swimming and diving. |
Google Glass Google Glass is a pair of glasses with a battery(电池)hidden inside the frame(边框). It can perform many of the same tasks as smart phones. The glass has a hidden camera and a tiny screen. It is designed to take hands-free photos or videos of anything people are doing. |
A New Kind of Shirt Hate washing clothes? You’re going to love this kind of shirt made by an American clothing company, Wool & Prince. This shirt can be worn for 100 straight days without washing! The Wool & Prince shirt never needs ironing(熨烫). |
The Digital(数字) Library Can you imagine walking into a library and finding all books have turned into computers? The first bookless public library is planned to open in San Antonio, Texas. Computers will take the place of books soon. |
阅读以上信息，用恰当的词完成下面的短文，每空一词。
Our daily life is improving all the time. We are living a colorful and convenient (便利) life
1. of science and technology, such as the underwater hotel, Google Glass, the Wool & Prince shirt and the digital library. An Underwater Hotel will be 2. in the sea. You can only get to it by swimming and diving. You needn’t use your 3. when you take photos or video with Google Glass. In the digital Library, you can read books on the 4. . Among them, most people like the Wool & Prince shirts best, which don’t need 5. after people wear them for a long time.
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Have you ever heard of Diddiache（滴滴打车）? Diddiache, a taxi-hailing smartphone app which is believed to be created by Tencent, has recently a 1. in Xiamen, and more than 700 taxi drivers in the city used the app.
The app shows the real-time locations of taxis on a map using the GPS technology and makes it possible for users to hail（招呼） a taxi on the smartphone. The u 2. request will send to the nearest taxi drivers who will decide w 3. to accept the order or not.
Taxi-hailing apps are very p 4. in Beijing, Shanghai, Hangzhou and Nanjing, having gained tens of thousands of users. H 5. , the city’s taxi-control departments doubt its helpfulness and have said it may not be s 6. for Xiamen.
The app has been criticized for disturbing the market order, and creating d 7. for passengers who do not use the app to hire a cab. Many users c 8. that they are not only useful when most taxis are idle（空驶）, and hiring a taxi can still be challenging during bad weather and r 9. hours. Can this app be in use for long? Technology might make a great d 10. to our life. Let’s wait and see.
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1.This ________ (干的) fruit is delicious. Would you like to have some?
2.Would you ask the (乘客 ) over there not to smoke?
3.Guilin (位于) on the two sides of Li River, it is a very beautiful city.
4. We deeply _______ (后悔) that the big fire took away the two young men’s lives.
5.Please hold on and I will put you___ ___(接通).
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1.Mobile phones are _______(wide) used all over the world.
2. There is a _______ (possible) that it will rain, so take your umbrella.
3.Our earth is becoming more crowded and _______ (pollute).
4. I___ ___ (hang) the washing on the line to dry yesterday.
5. The ancient tomb group was an important _______ (discover) in Han Dynasty.
If you were asked what your body is made of, probably you would say that it is made of flesh(肉体) and bones and covered with skin. You also know something about the blood which flows through it, and that there is a very important part which we call the brain.
But the flesh and the bones make up the largest part of the body, and there is a good deal to be learned about them. You know the general appearance of both flesh and bone from the parts of animals which you see in the butcher’s shop.
Bone is hard, and of a white color; indeed, it looks more like a piece of wood or stone than a part of a living animal. But bone is a real part of the living body, and it grows and is nourished (滋养)just as the body is. If a man breaks the bone of his arm or his leg, it is firmly bound up, to prevent the broken parts from moving out of the proper places, and in time then bone grows together again and becomes quite strong.
The bones are fastened together by various kinds of joints(关节). They form the framework of the body, and give it strength to retain its proper shape. This framework is called the skeleton(骨架). Some animals, such as worms and slugs, have no skeleton; and others, such as shellfish, have a kind of hard covering or skeleton outside.
The most important part of the skeleton is the backbone. It is so important that naturalists divide all animals into two classes,--- those which have a backbone and those which have none. All the higher animals, including man, have a backbone, or vertebral column as it is called. They are therefore called vertebrate （脊椎的）animals. The others are called invertebrate animals.
1.What’s our body made of?
A. Flesh
B. Flesh and bones.
C. Flesh, bones and flood.
D. Flesh, bones, flood and brain.
2.Where can we see flesh and bones from the parts of animals?
A. In the bookshop. B In the butchers’ shop.
C. At home. D. In the shopping mall
3.Why should the bones bound up firmly if they were broken?
A.To make the bones strong
B. To protect our arms and legs
C. To fasten the joints.
D. To prevent the broken parts from moving out of the proper places.
4. From the passage, we know higher animals are called .
A. backbone B. human beings
C. vertebrate animals D. skeleton
