EDGEWOOD-EVERY morning at Dixie Heights High School, customers pour into a special experiment; the district’s first coffee run mostly by students with special learning needs.
Well before classes start, students and teachers order Lattes Cappuccinos and Hot Chocolates. Then, durning the first period teachers call in orders on their room phones, and students make deliveries.
By closing tome at 9.20 a.m., the shop usually sells 90 drinks.
“Whoever made the chi tea, Ms. Schatzman says it was good,” Christy McKinley, a second year student, announced recently, after hanging up with the teacher.
The shop is called the Dixie PIT, which stands for Power in Transition. Although some of the students are not disabled, many are, and the PIT helps them prepare for life after high school.
They learn not only how to run a coffee shop but also how to deal with their affairs. They keep a timecard and receive paychecks, which they keep in check registers.
Special-education teachers Kim Chevalier and Sue Casey introduced the Dixie PIT from a similar program at Kennesaw Mountain High School in Georgia.
Not that it was easy. Chevalier’s first problem to overcome was product-related. Should school be selling coffee? What about sugar content?
Kenton County Food Service Director Ginger Gray helped. She made sure all the drinks, which use non fat milk, fell within nutrition(营养) guidelines.
The whole school has joined in to help.
Teachers agreed to give up their lounge(休息室) in the mornings. Art students painted the name of the shop on the wall. Business students designed the paychecks. The basketball team helped pay for cups.
1.What is the text mainly about?
A. A best selling coffee.
B. A special educational program.
C. Government support for schools.
D. A new type of teacher- student relationship.
2.The Dixie PIT program was introduced in order to _______.
A. raise money for school affairs
B. do some research on nutrition
C. develop students’ practical skills
D. supply teachers with drinks
3.We know from the text that Ginger Gray _______.
A. manages the Dixie PIT program in Kenton Country
B. sees that the drinks meet health standards
C. teaches at Dixie Heights High School
D. owns the school’s coffee shop
The displays of bad temper are nothing new in kindergarten and first grade, but the behavior of a 6-year-old girl this fall at a school in Fort Worth, Texas, had even the most experienced staff members wanting to run for cover. Asked to put a toy away, the youngster began to scream. Told to calm down, she knocked over her desk and crawled（爬行） under the teacher’s desk, kicking it and throwing out the contents of the drawers. Then things really began to worsen. Still screaming, the child stood up and began casting books at her terrified classmates, who had to be accompanied to safety.
Just a bad day at school? More like a bad season. The desk-throwing incident followed scores of other crazy acts by some of the youngest Fort Worth students at schools across the district, and even the country. There have been an increasing number of kindergartners and first-graders with violent behavior and it has become an alarming trend.
The youngest school kids are acting out in really ridiculous ways and violence is getting younger and younger. Why? Educators and psychologist argue that they are witnessing the result of a number of social trends that have come together in a most unfortunate way. Many mention economic stress, which has parents working longer hours than ever before, kids spending more time in day care and everyone coming home too tired to engage in the kind of relationships that build social skills. In addition, many educators worry about rising academic pressure in kindergarten and first grade as the students have to take the yearly tests demanded by the No Child Left Behind Act. They believe that even more important than early reading is the learning of play skills. Other experts also point out that violent behavior in children has been closely linked to exposure to violence on TV and in movies, video games and other media. They insist schools try to teach kids what they have failed to learn at home, for example, having varieties of anti-violence and character-education programs, instructing children to interact with people who love them and teaching them how to behave.
1.The author leads in the topic of the passage with .
A. detailed examples B. scientific analysis
C. satisfactory evidence D. rich imagination
2.The second paragraph tells us that .
A. autumn is considered as a bad season for the youngest school kids
B. Fort Worth students set good example to their peers in the district
C. the problem of kids’ violent behaviors is too serious to be ignored
D. kindergartners are urged to be equipped with alarming systems
3.As for the children, which of the following results in their violent behavior?
a. economic stress
b. academic pressure
c. lack of interaction with parents
d. ill personality
e. exposure to media violence
A. a, b, d B. a, c, d
C. b, c, e D. b, d, e
4.The passage mainly discusses about .
A. causes and solutions of school violent behaviors
B. student behavior management in the digital age
C. kids’ exposure to violence on TV and in movies
D. functions of character-education programs
Expert Tricks on iPhone 5
We don’t want to change your phone, we wanna make you say, wow, that is a bigger change than I expected. iPhone 5 in a result of that desire to surprise. It’s been completely redesigned.
For the first time ever, we’ve increased the size of display by making the screen taller but not wider. You can see more of your content without the need to scroll. We are making scrolling the thing of the past. iPhone 5 is more comfortable to use and reduces scrolling tiredness when you are reading long documents.
Even with the larger display, iPhone 5 is the thinnest iPhone we ever built. To achieve the design this tall, we have to look at it and completely redesign the internal architecture. It’s 18% thinner and 79.5% taller than the previous iPhone.
It makes everything you do on iPhone 5 feels easier and just move your arm away. No more hidden menus, no confusing gestures. Everything is right at your fingertips.
The panorama feature(全景功能) is simply awesome. The ultra-HD widescreen display let you get your entire shot in a single snap. You can also use your iPhone 5’s innovative design for image stabilization.
With an iPhone this tall, reception has never been better. You enjoy crystal clear clarity on even the longest calls.
And of course, all your favorite applications are still available. In fact you will find your old favorites also benefit from the new handsome ultra-HD widescreen. We found while many previous iPhone owners were using Facetime, they only used it for the faces. That’s why we are introducing Bodytime. Using iPhone 5’s ultra-HD widescreen display, Bodytime let you see a person’s entire body, allowing you to detect mannerisms and defects like never before.
We look way beyond what our thoughts expect, it took all of our learning, all of our thinking to realize something so simple, so clear, and yet so tall.
iPhone 5, the tallest thing to happen to iPhone since iPhone.
1.What can we learn about iPhone 5?
A. It is taller, wider and thinner.
B. It is taller, wider and thicker.
C. It is taller, thinner but not wider.
D. It is shorter, wider and thinner.
2.Which this new iPhone, you can do all the following EXCEPT .
A. doing things easily on it by moving arm away
B. scrolling more quickly than before
C. getting the entire shot in a single snap
D. using Bodytime for a person’s entire body
3.How thick is the redesigned iPhone 5 if the previous iPhone is 7.6mm in thickness?
A. 6.232mm. B. 1.558mm.
C. 1.368mm. D. 6.042mm.
4.What is the main idea of the passage?
A. Bodytime will replace Facetime in the future.
B. Scrolling on the phone will be the thing of the past.
C. All your favorite apps are still available on the new iPhone.
D. iPhone 5 will be the tallest thing to happen.
People often say that Money talks. They mean that a person with a lot of money can say how he or she wants things done. But it is not easy to earn enough money to gain this kind of power.
Ask anyone in business. They will tell you that it is a jungle out there. The expression probably began because a jungle is filled with wild animals and unknown dangers that threaten people.
People in business have to be careful if they are to survive the jungle out there. They must not be led into making bogus investments. Bogus means something that is not real.
Nobody is sure how the word got started. But it began to appear in American newspapers in the 1800s. A newspaper in Boston, Massachusetts, said the word came from a criminal whose name was Borghese. Borghese wrote checks to people although he did not have enough money in the bank. After he wrote the checks, he would disappear. So, people who were paid with his checks received nothing. The newspaper said Americans shortened and changed the criminal’s name Borghese to Bogus.
People trying to earn money must be also aware of the risk of being ripped off. A writer for a magazine said he first saw the expression used in 1971. It was on a sign that a student carried during a protest demonstration at a university. The message on the sign was that the student felt cheated.
To be successful, a person in business works hard and tries to get down to brass tacks. This expression means to get to the bottom or the most important of something. For example, a salesman may talk about his product without saying the price. You get down to brass tacks when you say, “it sounds good, but how much does it cost?”
Word expert Charles Funk thinks the expression comes from sailors on ships. They clean the bottom of a boat. When they have removed all the dirt, they are down to the copper pieces that hold the ship together. So, if we get down to brass tacks, we can prevent rip-offs and bogus ways of earning money in that jungle out there. And, some good luck will help, too.
1.Why do people say money talks?
A. Because money can tell us something.
B. Because the rich tend to decide a thing.
C. Because everyone loves to have money.
D. Because it is hard to earn money.
2.My uncle is in a jungle out there, which means .
A. he is a success in his own business
B. he will face many difficulties soon
C. he will fight against wild animals
D. he is interested to go through a jungle
3.Borghese is considered to be a criminal .
A. because he used the word “bogus” for the first time
B. because he was accused of writing false checks
C. because he didn’t have enough money in the bank
D. because he disappeared after he paid some checks
4.When you ask how much it cost, it means .
A. you are always caring about money
B. you declare you won’t be cheated
C. you care nothing about the quality
D. you get down to the real issues
5.It can be inferred from the passage that .
A. Charles Funk has created many interesting words
B. brass is a necessary people of equipment of a ship
C. many businessmen have been cheated in life
D. many English words have their interesting stories
Most teens I meet these days lack basic social courtesy when dealing with people.
My own son, who basically grew up with his grandmother, the original guru, has perfect table manners. This is partly because he was to manners at a very young age. However, when we eat at home, he would not manners. So I asked him why. He said,” I behave the way I am supposed to when I’m out, but when I am at home I want to be .”
That’s when I realized that most parents, myself included, do their children the proper way to behave outside the home, but they are also to believe that at home, anything goes.
My to him was “good behavior has nothing to do with where you are or whom you are with”.
Then he answered, “But I behave when I’m with others so that they think better of me.” And that is when I realized that I was doing things all . I explained to him that it had nothing to do with what people think. This him even more.
So I went on to explain that behavior, whether in your everyday with people or at the dining table at home, is an of who you are. Well, at the age of 13, he got it.
So basically, what I am saying is that teaching your children comes with the underlying lesson that it is not about to do or not to do, but rather, who they are. This way it is not ; it comes from within.
Teach your teens or children the courtesy of greeting their friends’ parents and themselves when they go to someone’s home. Teach teenage boys to open the door of a car, or any door that matter, for any girl, whether they are their girlfriends or not. This includes holding elevator doors or letting women step out of the elevator first.
Just that teenage boys who practice good manners’ and courtesy grow up to become men who respect people in general.
1.A. knowledgeB. wisdomC. mannersD. intelligence
2.A. exposedB. limitedC. caredD. concerned
3.A. learnB. practiceC. rememberD. make
4.A. liveB. obeyC. reactD. behave
5.A. gentleB. politeC. comfortableD. kind
6.A. teachB. offerC. guideD. support
7.A. attended toB. brought upC. cared aboutD. depended on
8.A. answerB. devotionC. apologyD. affection
9.A. strangelyB. nervouslyC. calmlyD. properly
10.A. reasonableB. importantC. wrongD. necessary
11.A. confusedB. encouragedC. movedD. pleased
12.A. competitionB. argumentC. struggleD. interaction
13.A. impressionB. expressionC. appearanceD. attitude
14.A. lessonsB. skillsC. mannersD. examples
15.A. what B. howC. whereD. why
16.A. practicalB. naturalC. gradualD. mechanical
17.A. minorB. formalC. basicD. casual
18.A. pleasingB. introducingC. enjoyingD. amusing
19.A. withB. onC. forD. at
20.A. considerB. confirmC. predictD. remember
—._____ you write so well?
—By reading and keeping diaries every day.
A. How it is that B. What it is
C. How is it that D. What is it that
