Now, there is a new-type school in New York, which has no everyday lessons, no class teachers and even no school buildings. It is called “City-as-School”. The name just means the city itself is the place where students learn their lessons. They are from the age of 15 to 18. The students choose areas of work which interest them. Then they help to do that work. One girl spends her week in a government office helping the public with problems like housing. Then she goes to help in a theatre for a day and she spends a week for first-year courses at college.
Well, students have to pass Maths and science exams before they enter the “school”. These subjects are not easy to provide in“City-as-School”. Teachers watch the progress of the students. The success rate (比率) is high. 80% of the students go to college after the “City-as-School”.
The students like the duty of their work. They have the sense of purpose. They know a lot about different kinds of work in the city. One of the students, Lizette Martinez, writes “I want to say that I do not know where I would be right now if I had never become part of City-as-School. Leaving my regular high school and going to City-as-School was the best decision I have ever made. The way the school works to get you to go out there and learn different fields instead of sitting in a classroom is wonderful. For all those who are in between school and dropping out, go to CAS and it will change your life forever.”
City-as-School High School is the nation’s leading (引导) external (外部地) learning or experiential (来自经验的) learning model for high school students.
【小题1】What can we learn about“City-as-School”?

I will never forget my first English class. It is very interesting. It’s the first class in the morning. The teacher goes into the classroom with a smile on his face. At the beginning, he makes a self-introduction(自我介绍). And he tells us that his English name is John. Then he asks all of us to think of English names for ourselves. We are very excited(兴奋的) to find a good name. Then he asks us to write our names down on a piece of paper. I think about my English name for a long time. Then I come up with(想出) a beautiful name ---Shirley. All the students write their names down and give the paper to the teacher. When the teacher calls “Shirley” to answer his question, three girls stand up at the same time.
【小题1】What do we do in the first English class?

China's long-awaited rules on school bus safety finally came into force on Tuesday, including a list of ways aimed at reducing the risk of accident.

Among the biggest changes is that buses carrying students will be given priority(优先权) in traffic, while companies and drivers will need licenses to offer school transport services.

Officials have spent more than four months making the rules, during which time the country has been shocked by several big crashes because of overcrowded school buses.

The latest accident happened on Monday in Yangchun, Guangdong province, in which three kindergarten pupils were killed and 14 others injured.

Rules and funding

In the new rules, a school bus is considered as a vehicle with more than seven seats that is transporting children receiving the State's nine-year compulsory education (ages 6 to 15) to or from school. This can also be for preschoolers(学龄前儿童) if a parent is unable to take them to or from kindergarten（幼儿园）.

School buses must also operate in routes marked in the map by governments to ensure safety.

Punishment

Companies and bus drivers who fail to meet the rules face the punishment.

Drivers against the rules will be fined 200 yuan ($32) and vehicles will be taken away from its owner if they have been used as an unlicensed school bus.

1.New safety rules for school buses can ________.

   A. make the students have a school bus

B. make fewer accident

   C. make the school bus bigger

D. punish the parents

2.The accident happened usually because ________.

   A. there were more students than there should be in the bus

   B. the road is not wide enough

   C. there were not any rule at first

   D. companies and drivers faced no punishment

3.Which of the following is Not true?

   A. When a truck and a school bus meet, the school bus can go first.

   B. The students (ages 3—5) mustn’t take school bus according to the rules.

   C. Those who break the rules will be fined two hundred yuan.

   D. The school bus has at least 7 seats.

4.The passage mainly talks about ________.

   A. the accident in Guangdong

B. the school bus safety rules

   C. how to punish the drivers

D. what a school bus is like

5.A school bus must go _______.

   A. different ways every day

B. after other buses

   C. with all the students

D. the same way all the days

Most adults once studied at school, had classes and did their homework every day. The same  36  is going on at school now.     37   it seems that doing weekend home-work is    38   problem for the modern students.

        All the students should agree that weekend homework should be canceled.  It's   39    for them to study at school five days a week.  They have a lot of interests. With homework to do on Saturday and Sunday, how can they find   40   to help around the house, go and see a football or basketball game or a good film, join in family recreations  (????), or just have    41 _ at home? Because of these other activities, the homework can't be finished until   42  .  So their weekend homework is usually done in such a hurry that on Monday teachers are   43  and often threaten (??в) to fail whole class of students because they know nothing about the   44  .  If there were no weekend homework for the students to do, they would be happy to go to school on Monday _ 45  _ having a good rest and to learn what the teachers teach.

1.A. thing     B. school     C. class      D. homework

2.A. Also        B.  But       C. Still    D. Though

3.A. no      B. another    C. one       D. other

4.A. not enough B. enough    C. no good    D. nouse

5.A. friends    B. time      C. places      D. money

6.A. a rest    B. an exam    C. a lesson    D. a picnic

7.A. Monday afternoon        B. Saturday afternoon

          C.  Friday night           D.  Sunday night

8.A. pleased   B. sorry      C. unhappy    D. not worried

9.A. lesson    B. games     C. interests    D. activities

10.A. until     B. when      C. before     D. after

One day, a teacher was giving a speech to his students .He held up（举起）a glass of water and asked the class. "How heavy do you think this glass of water is ?"
The students’ answers ranged（范围） from 20g to 500g .
"It does not matter on the weight itself .It depends on how long you hold it .If I hold it for a minute ,it is OK. If I hold it for an hour ,I will have an ache in my right arm .If I hold it for a day ,you will have to call an ambulance（救护车）.It is exactly the same weight ,but the longer I hold it ,the heavier it becomes."
"If we carry our burdens （负担）all the time, sooner or later ,we will not be able to carry on ,the burden becoming increasingly heavier ."
"What you have to do is to put the glass down ,rest for a while before holding it up again ."
We have to put down the burden sometimes ,so that we can be refreshed and are able to carry on .
So before you return home from work tonight ,put the burden of work down .Don’t carry it back home. You can pick it up tomorrow .
Whatever burdens you are having now on your shoulders, let it down for a moment if you can .
【小题1】The teacher brought a glass of water to the class because ______
A. he was very thirsty  B. his arms were strong  C. it was a good example
【小题2】"A glass of water " in this passage referred to （指）______
A. knowledge  B. the burden  C .the time
【小题3】Accordign to the teacher ,you may feel ______if you put down the burden sometimes.
A. more energetic  B. much heavier  C. more stressed out （压力、紧张）
【小题4】This was a lesson about______
A. how to relax oneself in life  B. how to solve a physics problem .
C. how to keep fit by drinking water
【小题5】Which of the following statements is TRUE according to the passage ?
A .You could become heavier and heavier if you held a glass of water in your hand .
B. All the students in the class knew what the weight of the glass of water exactly was
C. The teacher had a good way of making his lesson clear and easy to be understood