Your junior high school （初中） years are coming to an end．Most of you will go to   1    in a senior high school after the big exam． 2  are you expecting from senior high school?

  3   hear what plans some students have for the future．

Zhou Jie, 15, from Shanghai, “I have heard that although Senior 3 is a  4  year, students feel less stressed out in Senior 1 and Senior 2．I hope there’ll be time to enjoy5   , especially tennis． The Tennis Masters（大師）Cup will be held in Shanghai．I’m going to volunteer and I’m sure I’ll really enjoy it．”

Jin Li, 16, from Harbin, “I really enjoy science．I’m crazy about   6  model planes, although I’m not good at    7   ． I’ll learn more science in my senior high school． Anyway, sometime in the future I’m going to build a super model plane!”

Wang Ya, 15, from Xiamen, “I hope I can be   8    in my senior high school． I’m only 155 cm．I want to be 162 cm．  9   most of the girls in my family don’t grow any taller than 160 cm．I hope I’m different．”

Li Fan, 15, from Puyang, “I hope I can make more friends．In my senior high school, I’ll meet different people from different areas．I hope I can learn new things   10   them．”

1．A．walk                 B．study               C．play                 D．write

2．A．When                B．How                C．What               D．Where

3．A．Let’s                 B．It’s                  C．They’re           D．That’s

4．A．hot                    B．hard                C．light                D．kind

5．A．books                B．shows             C．photos             D．sports

6．A．making              B．sitting              C．cooking           D．cleaning

7．A．us                     B．him                 C．it                     D．her

8．A．shorter                     B．heavier             C．thinner             D．taller

9．A．So                    B．But                  C．When              D．If

10．A．to                    B．for                  C．from               D．a(chǎn)t

Carmen Arace Middle School is situated in the pastoral town of Bloomfield, Conn., but four years ago it faced many of the same problems as inner-city schools in nearby Hartford: low scores on standardized tests and dropping enrollment（入學(xué)注冊）. Then the school’s hard-driving headmaster, Delores Bolton, persuaded her board to shake up the place by buying a laptop computer for each student and teacher to use, in school and at home. What’s more, the board provided wireless Internet access at school. Total cost: $2.5 million.

Now, an hour before classes start, every seat in the library is taken by students who cannot wait for getting online. Fifth-grade teacher Jen Friday talks about different kinds of birds as students view them at a colorful website. After school, students on buses pull laptops from backpacks to get started on homework. Since the computer arrived, enrollment is up 20%. Scores on state tests are up 35%.

Indeed, school systems in rural Maine and New York City also hope to follow Arace Middle School’s example. Governor Angus King had planned using $50 million to buy a laptop for all of Maine’s 17,000 seventh-graders – and for new seventh-graders each fall.

In the same spirit, the New York City board of education voted on April 12 to create a school Internet portal（入口）, which would make money by selling ads and licensing public school students. Profits（盈利）will also provide e-mail service for the city’s 1.1 million public school students. Profits will be used to buy laptops for each of the school system’s 87,000 fourth-graders. Within nine years, all students in grades 4 and higher will have their own computers.

Back in Bloomfield, in the meantime, most of the kinks have been worked out. Some students were using their computers to visit unauthorized（非法的）websites. But teachers have the ability to keep an eye on where students have been on the Web and to stop them. “That is the worst when they disable you,” says eighth-grade honors student Jamie Bassell. The habit is rubbing off on parents. “I taught my mom to use e-mail,” says another eighth-grader, Katherine Hypolite. “And now she’s taking computer classes. I’m so proud of her!”

1.The example of Carmen Arace Middle School in the passage is used to ______.

A. show the problems schools are faced with today

B. prove that a school without high enrollment can do well

C. express the importance of computers in modern education

D. tell that laptops can help improve students’ school performance

2.According to the writer, students in New York City’s public schools will ______.

A. enjoy e-mail service in the near future

B. make money by selling ads on websites

C. all have their own laptops within nine years

D. become more interested in their studies with laptops

3.The underlined word “kinks” in the last paragraph most probably means ______.

A. plans         B. projects       C. problems      D. products

4.From the passage we learn that ______.

A. a school Internet portal is the key to a laptop program

B. the laptop program also has a good influence on parents

C. students slowly accept the fact their online activities controlled

D. the laptop program in public school is mainly for the eighth-graders

Carmen Arace Middle School is situated in the pastoral town of Bloomfield, Conn., but four years ago it faced many of the same problems as inner-city schools in nearby Hartford: low scores on standardized tests and dropping enrollment（入學(xué)注冊）. Then the school’s hard-driving headmaster, Delores Bolton, persuaded her board to shake up the place by buying a laptop computer for each student and teacher to use, in school and at home. What’s more, the board provided wireless Internet access at school. Total cost: $2.5 million.
Now, an hour before classes start, every seat in the library is taken by students who cannot wait for getting online. Fifth-grade teacher Jen Friday talks about different kinds of birds as students view them at a colorful website. After school, students on buses pull laptops from backpacks to get started on homework. Since the computer arrived, enrollment is up 20%. Scores on state tests are up 35%.
Indeed, school systems in rural Maine and New York City also hope to follow Arace Middle School’s example. Governor Angus King had planned using $50 million to buy a laptop for all of Maine’s 17,000 seventh-graders – and for new seventh-graders each fall.
In the same spirit, the New York City board of education voted on April 12 to create a school Internet portal（入口）, which would make money by selling ads and licensing public school students. Profits（盈利）will also provide e-mail service for the city’s 1.1 million public school students. Profits will be used to buy laptops for each of the school system’s 87,000 fourth-graders. Within nine years, all students in grades 4 and higher will have their own computers.
Back in Bloomfield, in the meantime, most of the kinks have been worked out. Some students were using their computers to visit unauthorized（非法的）websites. But teachers have the ability to keep an eye on where students have been on the Web and to stop them. “That is the worst when they disable you,” says eighth-grade honors student Jamie Bassell. The habit is rubbing off on parents. “I taught my mom to use e-mail,” says another eighth-grader, Katherine Hypolite. “And now she’s taking computer classes. I’m so proud of her!”
【小題1】The example of Carmen Arace Middle School in the passage is used to ______.

       I am Steve. I was born and grew up in South Wales. My favorite place to play was out on the hills where my imagination had plenty of space to expand（拓展）.

       My family moved out of Wales when I was thirteen. I went to a new school. One of my subjects was French. Because I had never learned any French, my teacher told me to sit in the corner and write anything I was interested in. That’s the time I started writing, just for myself, and I’ve been writing ever since.

       I have always loved BIG IDEAS, and so I enjoy writing fantastic stories. And I also write horror（恐怖的）stories. I think they are like the old fairytales（童話故事）,and can teach you important things.

       I am in my forties on the outside, twelve on the inside. I like rock music, Indian and Chinese food, and I enjoy drinking. I live in a small village with my wife Mary, ducks, cats, goats, hens and lots of rabbits. If you’d like to find out more about me and hope to buy my books, go to www. sbowkett. freeserve. co. uk.

1. When he was 13, the writer ______.

       A. wrote lots of poems                    B. moved out of Wales

C. sold many story books                    D. became a famous singer

2. He liked playing out on the hills because he could ______.

       A. expand his imagination                 B. learn French

C. listen to stories                               D. buy some books

3. Maybe the writer is ______ years old now.

       A. 12                    B. 22                     C. 32                    D. 42

4. According to the passage, the writer keeps ______.

       A. cats, hens and pigs                         B. ducks, goats and rabbits

C. hens, rabbits and dogs                    D. rabbits, pigs and cats

5. From the passage, we can learn that the writer ______.

A. lives in a big city with his son          B. likes eating Japanese sand

C. lives in the countryside with his wife      

D. introduces a nice book to us