According to an official report on youth violence（暴力）, “The greatest danger to the lives of children is not disease or food shortage, but violence”. Why aren’t students taught to manage conflict（冲突）the way they are taught to solve math problems, drive cars, or stay physically fit?

First of all, students need to realize that conflict is unavoidable. A report on violence among middle school students shows that most violence between students begin with small things. For example, a fight could start over the fact that one student eats a peanut butter sandwich each lunchtime. Laughter over the sandwich can then lead to a fight. The problem isn’t in the sandwich, but in the way students deal with the conflict.

Once students realize that conflict is unavoidable, they can practice the golden rule of staying calm（平静的）. Once the student feels calmer, he or she should choose words that will calm the other person down as well. Rude words only make things worse. On the other hand, soft words can put out the fire before it is out of control.

After both sides have calmed down, they can use another key way to help: listening. Listening allows the two sides to understand each other. One person should describe his or her side, and the other person should listen without getting in a word. Afterwards, the listener can ask some questions to make the speaker’s position clear. Then the two people should change roles.

Finally, students need to consider what they are hearing. This doesn’t mean trying to work out what’s wrong with the other person. It means understanding what both sides are trying to deal with. For example, a shouting match over a peanut butter sandwich might happen because one person thinks the other person is unwilling to try new things. Students need to ask themselves questions such as these: How did this start? What do I really want? What am I afraid of? As the problem becomes clearer, the conflict often simply becomes smaller.

There will always be conflict in schools, but that doesn’t mean there needs to be violence. Learning to resolve conflicts can help students deal with friends, teachers, parents and coworkers. In that way, conflict resolution（解决）is a basic life skill that should be taught in schools across the country.

56. What is the passage mainly about?

A. The lives of school children.     

B. The causes of fights in schools.

C. How to explain youth violence. 

D. How to deal with school conflicts.

57. What can we learn from Paragraph 2?

A. A small conflict can lead to violence.

B. Students seem to lose their temper easily.

C. Violence is more likely to happen at lunchtime.

D. The eating habit of a student often causes a fight.

58. Why do students need to ask themselves the questions in Paragraph 5?

A. To make clear what the real problem is.

B. To find out who should take responsibility.

C. To show more considerations for both sides.

D. To work out how to stop the shouting match.

59. What’s the writer’s purpose for writing this passage?

A. To tell the latest studies on school violence.

B. To teach students different skills for school life.

C. To describe some problems in school education.

D. To suggest teaching conflict management in schools.

Read the passage and fill in the blanks with proper words(在短文的空格内填入适当的词，使其内容通顺，每空格限填一词)

　　During the past hundred years, the railway, the car, the radio, the cinema, and now the TV, have produced very great changes in the amusements with which people pass their free time.

　　A hundred years ago, people were in the 　(1)　 of making their own amusements. When a group of people got together, they talked, played cards or other games, read aloud to each other, or went out riding, shooting or walking. Most people could sing a little, or play the piano; so at a party the guests amused each other. Above all, conversation was an art; amusing conversation could keep people happy for hours.

　　As for games such as football and tennis, people were also in the habit of playing them themselves. Most of them did not play very well, 　(2)　 they amused themselves and their friends.

　　Nowadays, we are amused by professional singers or players. 　(3)　 listen to your friends singing when you can hear the great singers of the world by the radio or on TV? Why play football with players who 　(4)　 very good at it when you can see some of the best players playing an important match? You may just sit comfortably at a cinema and watch the game without the trouble of going outside.

　　The art of conversation and the habit of playing and singing are growing, more people are becoming lookers and listeners, and more become doers and talkers. This change 　(5)　 people neither good nor harm; it is 　(6)　 to do something not very well oneself than always to sit watch others doing it.

按要求完成下列各小题。

1．按格式写出下列字母的大写或小写形式

f     j     n     r     q     B     D     G     K    Y

2．用书写体抄写下面的句子（注意格式）

  Match the words with the things in the picture． 

  Listen and number the letters and words you hear． 

How can you think in English? I think the best way is to practise as what a football player 26_____ every day. During the __27__  the football player will pass the ball to his teammates over and over again. So he won’t have to  __28___ passing the ball in the game; he will just do it.

You can train yourself ___29 ___in English this way. The first step is to think of the words that you use daily, simple everyday words __30___ book or shoe or tree. For example, whenever you see a “book”, you should think of it in English instead of in your mother language.

After you __31__ to think of several words in English, then move on to the next step-thinking in sentences. Listening and repeating is a very useful way to learn __32___ . Listen first and don’t care too much about ___33 ___you fully understand what you’re hearing. Try to repeat what you hear. The more you listen, the ___34__ you learn. After you reach a higher level, ___35___ having conversations with yourself in English. This will lead you to think in English.