In American schools there is something called Homecoming Day. Many high schools and colleges with a football team have a homecoming game. This can be the most important event of the year except graduation day. Students plan Homecoming Day for many weeks in advance.
Several days before Homecoming Day,students start to decorate the school. There are signs to wish luck to the team,and many other signs to welcome all the graduates. Many people still come to Homecoming Day twenty or thirty years after their graduation.
The members of school clubs build booths and sell lemonade,apples and sandwiches. Some clubs help to welcome visitors.
During the day people like to look for teachers that they remember from long ago. Often they see old friends and they talk together about those happy years in school.
Everyone soon comes to watch the football game. When the game is half over,the band comes onto the field and plays school songs. Another important moment is when the Homecoming Queen or King appears. All the students vote a most popular student Homecoming Queen or King. It is great honor to be chosen.
Homecoming Day is a happy day,but it is not perfect unless the football team wins the game. Even if the team loses,the students still enjoy Homecoming Day. Some stay at the school to dance,and others go to a party. For everyone it is a day worth remembering. (240 words)
11. What do many high schools and colleges with a football team have?
A. A Homecoming game.
B. A Homecoming party.
C. A Homecoming dance
D. A Homecoming concert
12. When do students begin to plan the Homecoming Day?
A. Two weeks in advance.
B. One week in advance
C. Many weeks in advance
D. Two or three days in advance
13. What do students start to do several days before the Homecoming Day?
A. Stop classes for parties
B. Decorate the school
C. Set up welcoming groups
D. Hold all kinds of parties
14. Which is NOT mentioned about the things they do before the football game?
A. Look for teachers
B. See old friends
C. Talk together.
D. Order tickets
15. When does the band play school songs?
A. While the game is going on
B. After the game
C. When the game is half over
D. Before the game
School buildings themselves can show liberal (开明的) or conservative views about what should go on in a classroom. The earliest schools had separate classrooms for different grades. The rooms were laid out formally, with pupils’desks fastened to the floor in straight rows facing the teacher’s desk. Clearly, such schools reflected a teacher-and-subject-centered view of education. Schools of the next generation had more open space, and most had movable desks. They also often provided special rooms or areas for science, art, music, and physical education. There were still separate rooms for different grade levels, however, and the desks still were likely to be formally arranged. That is, the schoolroom was still largely designed to carry out the old-school program, which involved grade levels, uniform. time blocks, and study of subject matters. Newer subjects, not newer teaching methods, accounted for most of what was new in school design. The first school buildings constructed to encourage liberal teaching methods appeared in the mid-1950s. Folding interior (内部的) walls permitted the flexible use of space to encourage large-group, small-group, or individual instruction. Some provided carrels for individual study, areas for team teaching, and centers for programmed instruction. In the newest buildings called open schools, the use of space is even more flexible. Areas within the buildings can be readily expanded for program changes, and used for many kinds of functions. One should remember, though, the physical layout (布局) of a school cannot decide whether it has the conservative or liberal teaching practices. What determines whether the classroom is liberal or conservative is the spirit and attitude of the teacher. The word “carrel” in Paragraph 3 most probably refers to ________.
A、a room with folding walls
B、a room with liberal instructions
C、a room with conservative instructions
D、a room with small space
Besides, watching TV is entertaining.There are so many kinds of entertainment, such as sports activities, performance, plays and movies in the world.Of course, it is impossible for us to be on every spot, even with the best means of transportation of our time.However, TV can bring them right in front of us and with them our life is full of joys.
Above all, watching TV is educational.Education TV service offers teaching programs on all subjects for people of different professions as well as for students, children an aged people.No doubt, it provides the widest education and has the largest audience.Everyone of us, more or less, is benefited from watching TV.In a word, TV has great influence on people’s life, word and study.
(1).Why does the author say watching TV is a
good relaxation?
A.Because watching TV can ease our minds
B.Because watching TV can comfort our physical bodies
C.Because watching TV can keep us away from tension and fatigue
D.All of the above
(2).Which kind of entertainment do we need to be
on the spot?
A.Sport activities
B.Performances
C.Watching TV
D.Plays
(3).Which of the following is not the advantage
of watching TV?
A.Watching TV can keep us away from the tension and fatigue.
B.Watching TV is a good kind of entertainment
C.Watching TV is educational.
D.Watching TDV allows us be on every spot with the best means of transportation.
(4).Why is watching TV educational?
A.Because TV programs are very interesting
B.Because TV can provide teaching programs
C.Because watching TV is a good relaxation
D.Because watching TV is entertaining
(5).Which advantage is the most important
according to the passage?
A.Watching TV is a good relaxation
B.Watching TV is entertaining
C.Watching TV is interesting and instructive
D.Watching TV is educational
A.specimen
B.specification
C.specialty
D.speculation
A.has taught him to love all kinds of seafood
B.reminded him how difficult his father was
C.has stayed with him all his life
D.made him remember the salt and the sea
A、Gulliver's Travels
B、The Rape of the Lock
C、Robinson Crusoe
D、The pilgrim's Progres
A.credit
B.cost
C.card
D.call
A.applied
B.demanded
C.owned
D.disagreed