If you are thinking of putting your child in a private high school instead of a public one, you should do some research. You will find that most private schools offer some advantages.

One of the most important details of a good high school is small class size. Many public schools might have 30 or even 35 students in each class. However, many private schools limit the size to about 15 to 20 kids per class. This is a good thing because it allows each teacher to offer every student more attention.

Another thing to mention is the interesting classes. For example, while the typical (典型的) high school might only offer Spanish and French as foreign languages, private schools often have several other languages to choose from. This is especially important if your child is actually interested in studying a particular language that is not usually offered. Of course, many colleges also consider the various (各种各样的) classes as a good thing, since they can teach students more different subjects than usual.

Some colleges actually work closely with schools to make sure students are prepared well to get an advanced education. This means that teachers are careful to teach skills that can be used in college. Also, college teachers may be on-hand to talk to students and give them advice. If you think your child could use some help of this kind, which would likely help prepare him or her for college, you should look into schools offering these things.

A simple visit to the website or campus (校园) of a local private high school could give you the answers you are looking for. If you think your child would benefit from and appreciate these advantages, you should start researching. You are sure to find at least one that offers these benefits.

1.By writing this text, the author is probably encouraging parents to    .

A．pay attention to their children’s study

B．appreciate the advantages of public schools

C．help their children choose right colleges

D．send their children to private high schools

2.In the third paragraph the author stresses the importance of      .

A．teacher’s role                        B．different kinds of classes

C．learning foreign languages                D．proper study methods

3.According to the text, colleges might like to choose students who    .

A．live close to colleges                     B．have interest in sports

C．have wide knowledge                    D．come from public high schools

请阅读下列师生的信息，然后匹配与其需求相对应的住宿信息。?
_____【小题1】. Robert Jones. Robert will be a guest teacher at the university beginning September 1. He has no car so needs accommodation that is very near work and that’s big enough for him and his wife. Privacy is important so he does not want to share things with others. As the university will pay his living expenses, money is no problem. ?
_____【小题2】 Bill West. Bill will begin his undergraduate studies in the autumn term (September 2009). Bill is very sociable and is eager to live with others. He would prefer to stay in town rather than the university so he can experience more of what the city offers.
_____【小题3】 Shelia Budgie. Shelia, a postgraduate student from Australia, will come to the university at the beginning of April for 6 months’ study. She needs a very quiet, private place in the university where she can study in peace. As she loves to cook she also wants a place with a private kitchen.
_____【小题4】 Angelo Liokas. Angelo, a language student from Greece, arrives in October and wants to live in the university and share with other students so he can practice his English. As his money is very limited he needs an inexpensive room that has cooking and washing equipment available to him.
_____【小题5】 Linda Chan. Linda will finish her studies this spring and wants her family to come from China to attend her graduation ceremony. She needs a place that can accept the four family members planning to attend in April. They will also need Internet access to stay in touch with family members in China.
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Location:  Outside university? Room Type: Shared flat? Availability: From 1 Sept. 2010 Number of beds: 5 singles? Weekly Rent: ￡65? Notes: I vacancy, sharing with male undergraduates.

Location: Inside university? Room Type: Private flat? Availability: From 25 Aug. 2010? Number of beds: 1 double? Weekly Rent: ￡92.40? Notes: Full private shower, basic kitchen, furniture, bedding services and broadband Internet included.?

Location: Outside university? Room Type: Private flat? Availability: From 1 Apr.2010 Number of beds:2 doubles? Weekly Rent:￡15.00? Notes: 1 double bedroom with lounge, kitchen, bathroom and WC. Sofa bed in lounge can be used as a second double bed. Includes free broadband Internet. ?

Location: Inside university? Room Type: Standard with washbasin? Availability: From 25 Sept. 2010? Number of beds:1 single? Weekly Rent:￡70.00? Notes: Private single bedroom. Also has public kitchen, bathrooms, WC and relaxing area with sofas that are shared by around 15 people.

Location: Inside university? Room Type: Townhouse flats? Availability: From 25 Sept.2010? Number of beds:12 singles? Weekly Rent:￡35.00? Notes: 12 people share each house. These are brand new for 2008, and each house contains a good size public kitchen, living area with sofas and downstairs laundry. ?

Location: Inside university? Room Type: Studio? Availability: From 25 Mar.2010? Number of beds:1 double? Weekly Rent：￡113.00? Notes: This quiet studio flat has a small private kitchen (fridge, microwave, stove), table and chairs, double bed, bathroom and Internet.

Which is sillier: denying we ever went to the moon or trying to convince the true non-believers?

Once upon a time—July 20, 1969, to be specific – two men got out of their little spaceship and wandered around on the moon for a while. Ten more men walked on the moon over the next three and a half years. The end.

Unfortunately, not quite. A fair number of Americans think that this whole business of moon landings really is a fairy tale. They believe that the landings were a big hoax (骗局) staged in the Mojave Desert, to convince everyone that U.S. technology was the “best” in the whole wide world.

Which is the harder thing to do: Send men to the moon or make believe we did? The fact is that the physics behind sending people to the moon is simple. You can do it with computers whose entire memory capacities can now fit on chips the size of postage stamps and that cost about as much as, well, a postage stamp. I know you can because we did.

However, last fall NASA considered spending $15,000 on a public-relations campaign to convince the unimpressed that Americans had in fact gone to the moon. That idea was mostly a reaction to a Fox television program, first aired in February 2001, that claimed to expose the hoax. The show’s creator is a publicity hound (猎狗) who has lived up to the name in more ways than one by hounding Buzz Aldrin, the second man on the moon. Mr. X (as I will call him, thereby denying him the joyous sight of his name in print) recently followed Buzz Aldrin around and called him “a thief, liar and coward” until the 72-year-old astronaut finally lost it and hit the 37-year-old Mr. X in the face.

Anyway, NASA’s publicity campaign began to slow down. The nonbelievers took the campaign as NASA’s effort to hide something while the believers said that $15,000 to convince people that the world was round — I mean, that we had gone to the moon — was simply a waste of money. (Actually, the $15,000 was supposed to pay for an article by James E. Oberg, an astronomy writer who, with Aldrin, has contributed to Scientific American.)

If NASA’s not paying Oberg, perhaps it could put the money to good use by hiring two big guys to drag Neil Armstrong out of the house. Armstrong is an extremely private man, but he is also the first man on the moon, so maybe he has a duty to be a bit more outspoken about the experience. Or NASA could just buy Aldrin a commemorate plaque (纪念匾) for his recent touch on the face of Mr. X.

1.We can learn from Paragraphs 2 and 3 that some Americans believe _______.

A．moon landings were invented

B．U.S. technology was the best

C．moon landing ended successfully

D．the Mojave Desert was the launching base

2.According to the writer, which of the following is to blame for the story about the hoax?

A．NASA’s publicity campaign.               B．The Fox television program.

C．Buzz Aldrin.                            D．James E. Oberg.

3.The believers think that NASA’s publicity campaign is ________.

A．proof to hide the truth

B．stupid and unnecessary

C．needed to convince the non-believers

D．important to develop space technology

4.What is implied in the last paragraph?

A．NASA should not bother with the non-believers.

B．Armstrong was a very private and determined person.

C．Armstrong should be as outspoken as Buzz Aldrin.

D．NASA should send more astronauts to outer space.

The Internet has _______(16) effects on our lives.

The first is its value for people who are looking for information. When people are _____________(17)information ,from weather forecasts to __________(18)research, the Internet is now the first place that many people ___________(19).With the ___________(20) of a button or the click of a mouse , a student can _______________(21)knowledge from the information held in the largest libraries and museums in the world .

Another truly wonderful __________(22)of the Internet is the way people use it to build social ties. One of the greatest ________(23)of Internet friendships is that they are ________________(24)common interests, rather than appearance, age or popularity. Young people from different _________(25)and different countries can form lifelong friendships.

The Internet also has its negative effects on our lives.

The ___________(26)  is that it is difficult to _________(27) whether the information is true and accurate. The __________(28) of false information on the Internet becomes more of a problem every day . This is very __________(29)because people can write anything they want,and we cannot always tell if the information is true or not .

Another disadvantage of the Internet is that it is affecting people’s ________(30)lives. As the Internet has gained ________(31),there has been a change in the way people spend their time. Now ,________(32)spending time together in the evenings, some families spend their time ______(33)because one or more members are using the computer. ________(34) some young people spend so much time ______(35)computer games and using the Internet that they have become addicted to computer games.

1.                A．negative        B．positive         C．creative  D．aggressive

2.                A．in need of       B．in face of        C．in charge of    D．in honour of

3.                A．scientific        B．biological       C．academic D．techonological

4.                A．turn to         B．point to         C．refer to   D．leader to

5.                A．catch          B．order          C．give D．touch

6.                A．acquire         B．have           C．require   D．win

7.                A．field           B．area           C．aspect    D．way

8.                A．interest        B．benefits        C．profits    D．kinds

9.                A．concentrated on  B．devoted to      C．abandoned to  D．based on

10.               A．backgrounds    B．families         C．societies   D．groups

11.               A．advantages      B． disadvantages   C．shortages D．shortcomings

12.               A．guess          B．judge          C． suppose  D．think

13.               A．amount        B．quantities       C． numbers  D．total

14.               A．handsome      B．troublesome     C．quarrelsome   D．fearsome

15.               A．private         B．public          C．state  D．personal

16.               A．permission      B．defence        C．popularity D．occupation

17.               A．rather than      B．instead of       C．in exchange for D．in spite of

18.               A．aside          B．apart          C．alone D．abroad

19.               A．In fact          B．In case         C．In turn    D．In all

20.               A．play           B．playing         C．to play    D．played

Tayka Hotel de Sal

Where：Tahua，Bolivia

How much：About $95 a night

Why it’s cool：You’ve stayed at hotels made of brick or wood，but salt？That’s something few can claim.Tayka Hotel de Sal is made totally of salt—including the beds (though you’ll sleep on regular mattresses(床垫) and blankets)．The hotel sits on the Salar de Uyuni，a prehistoric dried?up lake which is the world’s biggest salt flat.Builders use the salt from the 4,633?square?mile flat to make the bricks，and glue them together with a paste (糊) of wet salt that hardens when it dries.When rain starts to dissolve the hotel，the owners just mix up more salt paste to strengthen the bricks.

Green Magic Nature Resort

Where：Vythiri，India

How much：About $240 a night

Why it’s cool：Taking a pulley(滑轮)?operated lift 86 feet to your treetop room is just the start of your adventure.As you look out of your open window—there is no glass！—you watch monkeys and birds in the rain forest canopy(罩篷)．Later you might test your fear of heights by crossing the handmade rope bridge to the main part of the hotel，or just sit on your bamboo bed and read.You don’t even have to come down for breakfast—the hotel will send it up on the pulley?drawn “elevator”．

Dog Bark Park Inn B&B

Where：Cottonwood，Idaho

How much：$92 a night

Why it’s cool：This doghouse isn’t just for the family pet.Sweet_Willy is a 30?foot?tall dog with guest rooms in his belly.Climb the wooden stairs beside his hind leg to enter the door in his side.You can relax in the main bedroom，go up a few steps of the loft(阁楼) in Willy’s head，or hang out inside his nose.Although you have a full private bathroom in your quarters，there is also a toilet in the 12?foot?tall fire hydrant(消防栓) outside.

Gamirasu Cave Hotel

Where：Ayvali，Turkey

How much：Between $130 and $475 a night

Why it’s cool：This is caveman cool！Experience what it was like 5,000 years ago，when people lived in these mountain caves formed by volcanic ash.But your stay will be much more modern.Bathrooms and electricity provide what you expect from a modern hotel，and the white volcanic ash，called tufa，keeps the rooms cool，about 65? in summer.(Don’t worry—there is heat in winter.)

1.What do we know about Tayka Hotel de Sal?

A．It is located on a prehistoric lake.

B．It should be protected against the rain.

C．Everything in the hotel is made of salt.

D．You have to cross a rope bridge to the hotel.

2.What is the similarity of the four hotels?

A．Being expensive.

B．Being comfortable.

C．Being natural.

D．Being unique.

3.What does the underlined words “Sweet Willy” refer to?

A．The name of the hotel.

B．The name of the hotel owner.

C．The building of Dog Bark Park Inn B&B.

D．The name of a pet dog of the hotel owner.

4.Which of the hotels makes you have a feeling of living in the far past?

A．Tayka Hotel de Sal.

B．Green Magic Nature Resort.

C．Dog Bark Park Inn B&B.

D．Gamirasu Cave Hotel.