There are over 800 boarding(寄宿) schools in the UK with students from home and foreign countries. Boarding schools started hundreds of years ago in the country. But the earliest boarding schools were set up for white, rich boys only. Now both boys and girls can go to boarding schools from the age of 7 to 18.
What to do
In the UK, boarding schools have three terms in a school year, with about 13 weeks in each term. Students study and live together. They can’t go outside if they are not allowed to. In some schools, each student has his or her subject plan. Besides the usual classrooms and laboratories, the boarding schools have lots of other facilities for their students, including music rooms, boats, swimming pools, cinemas and theatres. Most boarding schools have a ＂light out＂ time. So when it’s time to go to bed, all the lights in the bedrooms are turned off. There are house masters to take care of students all the time, especially after school hours.
What to wear
Nearly all the students in boarding schools wear a school uniform. Boys usually wear a shirt and a tie, and girls wear a white blouse, sometimes also a tie and a skirt. As students get older, the rules become less strict.
In the UK, boarding schools provide students with delicious food. They can choose to have a full English breakfast or bread. And there is always self-service for salad(沙拉), other side dishes and a dessert. Students can also make themselves something to eat at any time in a kitchen, or drink tea or have a snack between meals.
1.Boarding schools in the UK .
A. provide education for boy students
B. have some strict rules
C. only receive junior and senior students
D. don’t have a long history
2.Students in boarding schools in the UK .
A. can’t eat snacks
B. can choose the clothes they want to wear all the time
C. can eat the meal their parents made for them
D. have different ages
3.Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage?
A. Only white children were allowed to attend the earliest boarding schools.
B. Students in a boarding school are looked after only after school hours.
C. As students get older, the rules about wearing school uniforms become stricter.
D. Students can have different activities in a boarding school.
4.Which is the best title for the last paragraph?
A. What to eat. B. When to eat.
C. Where to eat. D. How to eat.
5.The underlined word ＂facilities＂means＂ ＂.
A. 教师 B. 设施 C. 活动 D. 课程
These days, more and more students in the UK are taking a “gap year”between their graduation from school and their university studies. This means they can take a year off to do something else, before they start their studies.
For most students, spending time in foreign countries is the favorite activity --- and Australia is the favorite place to go.
Many parents, teachers and business people agree that travelling can teach important values.
“After a year of travelling, I felt I’d grown up. I had learnt the importance of relationships with people, on all kinds of levels.”
There are many companies around the world that welcome these students on their projects---helping people in poorer countries, or even in your home country. Although you don’t get paid for your work, this kind of work can teach important skills---decision making and finding answers to problems, for example---that will help many students in a job one day.
Finally, getting some knowledge and experience in an area you hope to study or work in one day will always be very useful.
If several university graduates are applying(申请) for the same job, gar year work experience allows you to say,
“ I’ve already had some experience of this kind of work.” And that can get your job.
1.More and more students in the UK are taking a “gap year” .
A.before they graduate from school
B.before they graduate from university
C.after they graduate from university
D.Before they go to university after graduating from school
2.is their favorite activity for most students in the UK.
A.Spending time in Australia
B.Spending time in the UK
C.Spending time with their teachers
D.Spending time with their parents
3.What can’t students get in gap year work in the writer’s opinion?
A.Values B.Skills C.Knowledge and experience D.money
4.Chances for the same job will be given to the students .
A.who study well in school
B.who have some experience in this kind of work
C.who don’t apple for the job
D.who are rich enough
5.The best title(题目) of the passage can be .
A.Work for the Poor B.Take a Year off
C.Apply for a job D.Travel
You must think a computer is the best thing in the world, right? You must think it works at a super speed and can do everything? Well, it’s not! In fact, the brain is much more powerful than any super computer! Think about when a glass is just about to fall off the table. Your brain controls everything that you need to do to save that glass from falling. First your eyes check out what’s going on, then tell your brain, and your brain decides how quickly you need to react(反应), and then your muscles(肌肉) go into action. That is just from your brain. No computer could ever come close to that!
The brain weighs just 3 pounds, but it controls everything you do from thinking, learning, feeling even to breathing and your heart beating. Even though the brain is just 2% of your body weight, it uses around 20% of all your energy in your body. That is a lot for such a small organ(器官). There are about 100 billion tiny, tiny little cells(细胞) in your brain. There are so many that it would take you over 3,000 years to count them all!
Your brain stops growing when you’re 18, but it actually keeps on developing and learning new things. So your parents are really super smart! You won’t be able to fool them! Believe it or not, your brain NEVER stops working. Even during sleeping, the brain works for long-term memory establishment(建立). It is realized that the brain is the second organ in the body as the heart that never stops during human lives.
So everyone should be proud of such a gift of nature.
1.In Paragraph 1, the writer wants to tell us .
A. eyes and muscles react quickly
B. the brain controls everything in your body
C. the computer is the best thing in the world
D. the brain is more powerful than any computer
2.In Paragraph 2, the underlined word “That” refers to(指的是) .
A. the body weight B. 2% of the body weight
C. all energy in the body D. around 20% of the energy in the body
3.Which is RIGHT according to the passage?
A. The brain doesn’t work during sleeping
B. The brain is the only organ that never stops
C. The brain keeps growing during human lives
D. The brain keeps on developing during human lives
4.Which word can best describe the brain according to the passage?
A. Magic B. Quick C. Light D. Developing
5.In which magazine can the passage be found most probably?
A. Business Weekly B. Medicine C. Science D. Sports
I ________in this small mountain village when I was a child.
A.use to live B.used to living C.used to live D.use to living
I like ball games very much, ____________ football, basketball and baseball.
A.such as B.for example C.such D.as
I can’t find my ticket. I think I have lost _________.
A.it B.one C.this D.them
