1.我语文不太好，你能给我一些建议吗？（good,  advice）

2.你妈妈每天怎么去上班？那要视天气而定。(How,  depend)

3.正如你所看到的，在某些方面我们长的很像，在某些方面看起来又不大相同。（as,  ways）

4.你上个休息日做了什么？我参加了学校组织的旅行，玩的很开心.

（what,  great）

5.长大后，我要做我想做的事。（grow,  like）

The high school diploma (文凭) is losing its value quickly, as a growing number of students graduate (毕业) from school without the math and reading skills that colleges and companies require, according to a new report.
The high school graduation exams that most states (州) require students to pass before they graduate remain far too easy. Most of the exams generally test eighth-or ninth-grade level work.
Today, even high school graduates who are going to have blue-collar (蓝领) jobs need to study the math, research and writing courses. But in high school, only students who are going to college are now required to take these courses.
“If you want a good job with a good pay, it’s a high-skill job,” said Michael Cohen, a leading member of the America Diploma Project.
The project suggests that all graduates master a wide range (范围) of skills. “A high school diploma should mean something to a company and university,” said Ohio Gov. Bob Taft, who is Achieve’s co-chairman.
In Taft’s state, about 30% students who go directly to college from high school have to take remedial classes of English or math, he said. It’s easy to see that the present high-school graduating standards are not preparing students for college education.
And with high-skilled jobs increasingly headed overseas to places like India and Ireland, states need to act, he said.
To prove why math and reading skills matter, the report includes real-life examples of problems students meet in college and that workers must solve each day on the job. ?
Some states are taking actions to upgrade the high school diploma. In Texas, all high school students, starting with the 2008 graduating class, will have to take the college-prep curriculum (大学预备课程) - unless a parent agrees to an easier course load. Other states are planning similar moves.
The report includes examples of reading and math skills that high-school students should have. Project leaders say they hope parents will use those examples to judge (评定) the coursework at their kids’ high schools.
【小题1】Why is the high school diploma losing its value quickly?

This is a teacher’s family. The father’s name is Lake Smith. He is forty-four. The mother’s name is Kate Smith. She’s forty-two. The Smiths have a son, Jim, and a daughter, Ann. Jim is fourteen, and Ann is twelve. The son looks like（看起来像） his father, and the daughter looks like her mother. They are all in No.4 Middle School here. But the Smiths are teachers, the son and daughter are students.

1.Jim’s father is _________.

A．a worker          B．a teacher          C．a doctor          D．a driver

2.Ann’s mother’s name is ___________.

A．Lake Smith

B．Kate Smith

C．Jim Smith

D．Ann Smith

3.Jim looks like his__________.

A．father            B．mother           C．aunt             D．uncle

4.Are Jim and Ann in the same(相同的) school?

A．They are in the same school?

B．They are in different schools.

C．Yes, they are.

D．No, they aren’t.

5.Is Kate Smith a teacher?

A．Yes, it is.

B．Yes, she is.

C．No, she isn’t.

D．No, he isn’t.

补全对话5%

A: Here is a photo of my family.　　B:   ______1______.

A: OK. Here you are.　　　　　　B: Is the man your father?

A: Yes, he is. And _____2______.　B:  ________3________

A: They are my sisters. Who is the boy, can you guess?

B: He is your little brother.

A: ______4______. It’s me.

B: But it doesn’t look like (看起来像) you.

A: _______5________