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Students in western Ohio(俄亥俄州) have to say “bye-bye” to snow days. Snow may fall, but students won’t be able to spend the days sledding(滑雪橇). Classes will continue online. Officials say that holding electronic workdays(e-days) will help students keep up with their studies. It will also prevent requiring students to make up schooldays later in June.

Which would you prefer: spending a cold day on a computer, or sitting in school in June when you should be on vacation? Jordan Dewar, a student reporter, holds the opinion that having online work on a snow day is the better choice. “You would be working on a day that you already planned on having schoolwork.”

“Having extra days of school in summer can interfere with(妨碍) families’ vacation plans. Besides, what if your school does not have air-conditioning? Imagine sweating through seven hours at school on a hot June day when you could have been relaxing by a pool with your family. Doesn’t an e-day sound better than that?” Jordan Dewar said.

For some students, it would be easier to concentrate(专注) on e-days than on makeup days. “You can do a little work online, go play, and then come back later,” says Rachel Meyers, 12. “But on June days you would just have to sit there for seven hours, thinking about how you could be outside, so you lose focus.”

There are some students arguing that it’s not fair to ditch snow days, however. They say that snow days give them a much-needed break. They also note that missing a day here and there is not enough to put them behind. Most students in Silver Valley School think one problem of e-days is that sometimes siblings(兄弟姐妹们) have to share computers at home. In addition, it punishes the students who don’t have computers at home. When school starts again after e-days, these students will be left behind and have to work double-time to catch up with others.

“School budget cuts(预算削减) across the country are expected to continue into the 2017-2018 school year.” the American Association of School Administrators(AASA) Web site states. “The school wouldn’t be able to afford both online classes and taking care of the school,” Austin Krewson, an eighth grader, says.

Moreover, electricity is likely to be cut off during snowstorms. If kids don’t have power at home, the money and the time in running the new program would be wasted.

1.What can we learn from Paragraph 1?

A. Officials suggest students should have more schooldays in June.

B. Officials believe snow days put students behind in their studies.

C. Students have to end snow days earlier than planned.

D. Students won’t have sledding classes at school.

2.The student reporter, Jordan Dewar, believes that _____.

A. siblings can help each other with their studies on e-days

B. students can learn better on e-days than on makeup days

C. having e-days in winter will save the cost of air-conditioning

D. students should study online when it snows heavily on weekdays

3.What does the word “ditch” in Paragraph 5 probably mean?

A. give up B. put off C. carry out D. pay for

4.The writer mentions the statements on the AASA Web site to _____.

A. explain the reason to hold the e-day program

B. show the difficulty of running the e-day program

C. suggest government should spend more money on education

D. stress why some students can’t afford computers for online classes

1.D 2.D 3.A 4.C 【解析】【主旨大意】本文是一篇新闻报道，主要讲述美国俄亥俄州的学生在下雪天仍然要在网上学习，而不能玩雪橇。对此，不同的学生有不同的看法，某些政府官员也发表了自己的观点。 1.细节理解题。题干意为：我们从第一段中可知什么？根据第一段第二句“Snow may fall, but students won’t be able to spend...

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