Every morning, the newspaper chief editor（主编） holds a meeting with the reporters. They discuss the main events（事件） of the day. Reporters are then sent to cover the events.　　
As soon as the reporters know what to write about, they get down to work. They telephone people and fix a time for a face-to-face interview with them. Sometimes they do telephone interviews. Checking information is very important. They go to the newspaper's own library to look up any information that they need. This is called “doing one's homework”.
At the same time, the picture editor decides which photographs will be used for the next day's paper. All the people who work on a newspaper must be able to work fast. Reporters have to stop working on one story and start working at once on the important new one. They must find out the new information as quickly as possible. Later in the day, everything is put together at the news desk. Reporters return, type their stories into the computer and hand them to the editor.　　
The chief editor decides which will be the most important story on the front page. Sometimes this will have to be changed if something more important happens late in the day. Other editors read the stories which the reporters have written and make any necessary changes.　　
Finally, there is no more time left for adding new stories, and the time for printing（印刷） the newspaper has come. This is done on fast-moving printing machines. The newspapers are then delivered（发送） by truck, plane or rail. Speed is important. People want to buy the latest newspaper; nobody wants to buy yesterday's.　　
【小题1】What is the work in a newspaper office like?　

People of Burlington are being disturbed by the sound of bells. Four students from Burlington College of Higher Education are in the bell tower of the church and have made up their minds to    15   the bells nonstop for two weeks as a protest（抗议） against heavy trucks which run    16   through the narrow High Street.“They not only make it    17   to sleep at night, but they are doing damage（损害） to our houses and shops of historical   18  ,”
said John Norris, one of the protesters.
“ 19  we must have these noisy trucks on the roads,” said Jean Lacey, a biology student, “why don’t they build a new road that goes round the town? Burlington isn’t much more than a  20    village. Its streets were never meant for heavy traffic”.
　　Harry Fields also studying    21    said they wanted to make as much noise as possible to force the government officials to realize what everybody was having to stand. “Most of them don’t live here anyway,” he said, “they come in for meetings and the Town Hall is soundproof（隔音的）, so they probably don’t    22   . It’s high time they realized the problem.” The fourth student, Liza Vernum, said she thought the public were mostly on their side, and even if they weren’t they soon would be.
　　I asked if they were    23    that the police might come to stop them.
　　“Not really,” she said, “actually we are suitable bellringers. I mean we are assistant bellringers for the church. There is no    24    against practising.”
I left the church with the sound of the bells ringing in my ears.

完形填空

In the United States, headmasters and teachers discipline (惩戒) students in several ___1__. The teacher often writes or calls the student’s ___2___.

Sometimes students have to stay at school for an extra hour. If a student behaves very ___3___，the headmaster can suspend (暂停学生上课) the student. The student cannot ___4___ for one, two, or three days. Mr. Lazares didn’t like to suspend students. When he suspended some students, they were ___5___. “A three-day holiday!” they thought. One day, a boy named Robert was in Mr. Lazares’s office. The boy was not behaving well in class. Mr. Lazares telephoned the boy’s parents. “If you come to school with your son, I won’t ___6___ him,” he said. The boy’s father came to school and went with his son to every class.Other students___7___ the boy and his father. The boy was embarrassed. After that, he behaved ___8___. He didn’t want his father to come to school again. Other students behaved better, ___9___. They thought, “I don’t want my parents to come to school!”

That year about 60 parents came to school with children who didn’t behave well. The next year only ___10___ parents had to come to school. The students were behaving better.

1.A. A. streets　　　    B. roads　　　   C. ideas　　　   D. ways

完形填空
In the United States, headmasters and teachers discipline (惩戒) students in several ___1__. The teacher often writes or calls the student’s ___2___.
Sometimes students have to stay at school for an extra hour. If a student behaves very ___3___，the headmaster can suspend (暂停学生上课) the student. The student cannot ___4___ for one, two, or three days. Mr. Lazares didn’t like to suspend students. When he suspended some students, they were ___5___. “A three-day holiday!” they thought. One day, a boy named Robert was in Mr. Lazares’s office. The boy was not behaving well in class. Mr. Lazares telephoned the boy’s parents. “If you come to school with your son, I won’t ___6___ him,” he said. The boy’s father came to school and went with his son to every class.Other students___7___ the boy and his father. The boy was embarrassed. After that, he behaved ___8___. He didn’t want his father to come to school again. Other students behaved better, ___9___. They thought, “I don’t want my parents to come to school!”
That year about 60 parents came to school with children who didn’t behave well. The next year only ___10___ parents had to come to school. The students were behaving better.
【小题1】A. A. streets　　　    B. roads　　　   C. ideas　　　   D. ways

People of Burlington are being disturbed by the sound of bells. Four students from Burlington College of Higher Education are in the bell tower of the church and have made up their minds to    15   the bells nonstop for two weeks as a protest（抗议） against heavy trucks which run    16   through the narrow High Street.“They not only make it    17   to sleep at night, but they are doing damage（损害） to our houses and shops of historical   18  ,”

said John Norris, one of the protesters.

“ 19  we must have these noisy trucks on the roads,” said Jean Lacey, a biology student, “why don’t they build a new road that goes round the town? Burlington isn’t much more than a  20    village. Its streets were never meant for heavy traffic”.

　　Harry Fields also studying    21    said they wanted to make as much noise as possible to force the government officials to realize what everybody was having to stand. “Most of them don’t live here anyway,” he said, “they come in for meetings and the Town Hall is soundproof（隔音的）, so they probably don’t    22   . It’s high time they realized the problem.” The fourth student, Liza Vernum, said she thought the public were mostly on their side, and even if they weren’t they soon would be.

　　I asked if they were    23    that the police might come to stop them.

　　“Not really,” she said, “actually we are suitable bellringers. I mean we are assistant bellringers for the church. There is no    24    against practising.”

I left the church with the sound of the bells ringing in my ears.