离中考还有3个月的时间，为了提高学生的学习成绩，作业量也会增大，因此你校同学针对是否应该每天留家庭作业进行了讨论。讨论详情见下表。

请根据表格内容为你校的校刊写一篇英文报道，并表明你自己的看法。

agreement(70％)	disagreement(30％)	Your opinion
review and practice the knowledge	reduce free time with their families	1…
understand and remember their lessons	reduce the time for other activities	2…
improve their skills in managing time	feel tired, lose interest in their lessons

注意：1．词数70字左右；

2．根据内容要点适当增加细节，以使行文连贯；

      3．文章题目和开头已给出(不计入词数)。

Is daily homework necessary?

       Recently our school students have had a discussion about whether it is necessary to have daily homework. Different students have different opinions.

                                                                                   

                                                                                  

For most students, the time of exams is very stressful and difficult. Some people find exam time so bad that they become ill, because they are afraid of failing, they are afraid of letting their parents down. If exams are really making you ill or worried, don’t hide your feelings. Talk to someone about it. If one person doesn’t help you, ask someone else.

How to get through exams? Here are some top tips by educational psychologists（教育心理学家）

Ask a teacher about how to review, and exam skills – how to work when you are in an exam.

Take short rests during your time of work. If your mind is tired, it will not remember well.

Plan your work: review at times when you know you will work at your best.

Get enough sleep, and eat healthy food.

If you feel ill, talk to someone about your worries. But don’t be too relaxed! Some stress over exams makes you work hard for them.

If it makes you upset to talk to your friends about an exam when it is finished, don’t do it! In fact, don’t even think about the exam you have finished. What is done is done. You cannot change what you have written!

If you are studying in the evening, don’t go straight to bed after that. Your mind will still be “going round and round” – thinking too much. Do something else, maybe walk or get exercise. Choose something that will relax you, and make you think of other things.

1. Some people find exam time so bad that _________.

  A. they are afraid of failing              B. they become ill

  C. they think too much about it           D. they hide their feelings

2. If you get tired during your time of work, you should _________.

  A. talk to someone about your worries      B. ask a teacher about it

  C. plan your work                      D. take a short rest

3. If you want to get to sleep quickly after studying in the night, you can ______.

  A. do something else to relax yourself      B. go to bed as soon as you can    

C. eat some healthy food                 D. let your parents down

4. The writer thinks if we get too relaxed, ________.

A. our mind won’t remember well         B. we won’t work hard for the exams

C. we will think too much               D. change what we have done

5. From the passage, we know that _________.

 A. it’s useful to talk about exams after having finished it

 B. it’s necessary to plan our work well

 C. we should sleep less and eat more   

D. if we feel ill, don’t tell others

Jane was not a good student. Her head was in the clouds(处于幻想之中) most of the time. She wanted to listen in class, but other things seemed more important: her clothes, her hairstyle, new movies and soap operas. Many times she tried to work hard at her lessons, but soon she gave up.

One day, her math teacher gave the class an important lesson and told her students that there would be a test next week. She helped them review all the week. Jane seemed to listen in class, but her mind went away again.

The day of the test arrived. Jane couldn’t answer many of the questions in the exam. Mike, a very hard-working student, sat in front of Jane. So Jane decided to copy his. Mike was very angry when he found Jane was copying his answers. He changed all his answers into wrong ones. Before the bell rang, Mike quickly changed his answers back into right ones. After the test, Mike turned to Jane and said, “All the answers you copied from my paper are wrong.”

1.Jane thought less about________ than other things.

A．her clothes	B．her study
C．films and television	D．her hairstyle

2.Jane couldn’t answer many of the questions on the exam because _______.

A．her mind was not in the study most of the time

B．she was not clever.

C．she always slept in class.

D．she didn’t know how to study

3.Mike was angry when he ________.

A．was changing all his answers

B．failed the math test

C．found Jane was copying his answers.

D．found Jane copying the wrong answers

4.Which of the following is right?

A．Jane copied the wrong answers.

B．Mike couldn’t answer the questions

C．Jane sat before Mike.

D．Jane tried her best in the exam.

 

Jane was not a good student. Her head was in the clouds(处于幻想之中) most of the time. She wanted to listen in class, but other things seemed more important: her clothes, her hairstyle, films and television. Many times she tried to work hard at her lessons, but soon she became absent-minded.
One day, her math teacher gave the class an important lesson and told her students that there would be a test the next week. She helped them review all the week. Jane seemed to listen in class, but her mind went away again.
The day of the test arrived. Jane couldn’t answer many of the questions on the exam. Mike, a very hard-working student, sat next to Jane. So Jane decided to copy his. Mike was very angry when he found Jane was copying his answers. He changed all his answers so that they were not right. Before the bell rang, Mike quickly changed his answers back into right ones. After the test, Mike turned to Jane and said, “ All those answers you copied from my paper are wrong.”
【小题1】Jane thought a lot of things EXCEPT ________.

A．her clothes	B．her study
C．films and television	D．her hairstyle

【小题2】The math teacher helped her students review for a week because ________.

A．there would be an English test

B．there would be an important lesson

C．she wanted her students to study hard.

D．she wanted them to pass the math test.

【小题3】Jane couldn’t answer many of the questions on the exam because _______.

A．her mind was not in the study most of the time

B．she was not clever.

C．she always slept in class.

D．she didn’t know how to study

【小题4】Mike was angry when he ________.

A．was changing all his answers

B．failed the math test

C．found Jane was copying

D．found Jane copying the wrong answers

【小题5】Which of the following is right?

A．Jane copied the wrong answers.

B．Mike couldn’t answer the questions

C．Jane sat before Mike.

D．Jane tried her best in the exam.

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The way in which we communicate with others can be greatly improved by building a better vocabulary. In our personal life，we communicate and share experiences with others. However, how well we do it depends on(取决于)our ability to express ourselves through spoken and written language. Luckily，increasing(增加)our word power can make us own the skills we need to communicate better with others and can also help us get better results in our study.

When you see a new word，whether through reading or hearing someone say the word，just be ready to take out your dictionary and look it up-learn about the word and anything that relates(与…相关)to it. If you understand the word, you’ll hopefully remember it well.

Meanwhile, you’d better write down words to learn. You can go through the dictionary，magazine and newspaper or even take down the unknown words you hear. Try to review them every day-look at the words and speak them out loudly. Copy the words over and over again，along with their meanings，and you will surprisingly remember themn in no time.

You can also do word searches，crossword puzzles or other word games. Playing these games，you are more likely to come across new words, and when you are caught in new words, study them. The more words you have in your brain’s word bank，the better you will become at these word games. You will be remembering，learning and having fun，too.

Finally, reading is also believed to be an excellent way to learn new words and build up your vocabulary. Read things you are interested in，because in this way，you are less likely to become bored. But dont skip over(忽略) those words you don’t know. Instead, you should remember and use them in your own daily conversations. Use them more, and you’ll surely have a better chance of remembering them.

Topic：Increasing Your Vocabulary
1.__________ of building up vocabulary	●Improve your ability to express yourselves and communicate better with others. ●Be 2.___________to your study.
Suggestions on remembering new words	1.Remember every new word you meet with by3.__________it. ●Learn about the word and anything that relates to it by looking it up in your dictionary.
2.Make a 4.__________of new words to learn. ●Review the words every day by looking at and speaking them out loudly. ●Copy the words and their meanings over and over again.
3.Do word games. ●Play these games，come across new words and study them with fun.
4.Learn words through reading. ●Read things you5.__________. ●Do not skip over new words，but remember and use them more.