A newspaper flier

Writers! Poets! Photographers! Artists!

Our school newspaper is published monthly from September through May．

We depend on the dedicated efforts of student volunteers．This could mean you!

What Can You Do?

How Do You Join?

Turn in a letter of application and a list of any job preferences to Mrs. James.

Deadline: September 5^th.

1．The “What Can You Do?” Section is meant to _________．

    A．explain the paper's policies and procedures（程序）

    B．show example's of student-written news articles

    C．provide examples of possible newspaper jobs

    D．help students improve their writing abilities

2．A student interested in the “Reviews” section of this flier probably enjoys ________．

    A．attending different school academic events

    B．reading books and watching movies

    C．attending school athletic events

    D．taking photos and writing poetry

3．The reader may best infer that the Northfield School News and Notes ________

    A．does include materials written by teachers and staff

    B．does not charge students for copies of the paper

    C．does publish a variety of material that interests students

    D．does not allow sixth and seventh graders on the staff

4．The purpose of this flier is to __________.

    A．encourage students to write more often

    B．persuade students to buy the school paper

    C．inform students of upcoming school events

    D．get students to work on the school paper

阅读下面短文，根据所读内容在表格中的空白处填入恰当的单词。

注意：每个空格只填一个单词。

It’s every student’s dream to do well in the national college entrance examination and enter a good university. In the eyes of students and parents, a good university should have a high ranking, and the employment rate of its graduates should be high. But be careful! The employment rate they tell you might not always be true.

Recently, people created a Chinese phrase “bei jiuye”, which has become popular on the Internet almost overnight across China. The word “bei” has a grammatical use in Chinese: it has a function similar to the passive voice in English. But now people often use it to express their doubts about something. Here, the phrase “bei jiuye” has the literal meaning of “to be hired”, but people understand that it really means “to be hired without one’s knowledge” or “be hired for jobs that may not exist at all”.

The story of “bei jiuye” goes like this. Zhao Dongdong, a graduate of a university in Shanxi province, was surprised to find that he got a job from a company he never applied to, which he wasn’t even sure was a real place. On his last day of graduation ceremonies, he was surprised to come across the employment contract.

“God! At that time, I had not landed a job yet, but they gave me an employment contract! I wondered who on earth signed the contract with the company.” When Zhao made a phone call to the company to check it out, no one answered. He was not the only one in his college who was “hired” for a job that did not exist. One of his classmates signed a contract with a company called Xi’an Beilin Industrial Corporation, which could not be found on the Internet either. In the end, it turned out that the college had faked the contract to make it seem like the employment rate for new graduates was higher than that. By doing this, the college could build up a “good” reputation that could help it attract new students. “Bei jiuye” is just one of many hot “bei” words on the Internet. See some of them in “Bonus”. The use of “bei” is a satirical (讽刺的) way for the public to express its helplessness and criticize abuses of power, some people say. People also use “bei” words to bring attention to social problems, hoping they will be noticed by authorities.

Roslyn Hing School on long Island recently started a pilot program using iPads in some classrooms.
A growing number of schools across the U.S.are multimedia,history through gamse and math with step-by -step animation(动画）of complex problems.
As part of a pilot program,Roslyn High School handed out 47 iPads on Dec.20,2010 to the students and teachers in two humanities(人文学科）classes. The school district hopes to provide iPads eventually to all 1,100 of its students.
The iPads are to be used in class and at hom during the school year to replace texbooks,allow students to correspond with teachers and tum in papers and homework tasks,and preserve a rocord of student work in digital files.
“It allows us to extend the classes beyond these four walls.”said larry Reiff,an English teacher at Roslyn who now posts all his course mateials online.
But educators are still divided over whether practices to give every student a laptop have made a difference academically.
“Thre is very little evidence that kids learn more,faster of better by using these machines,”said Larry Cuban,a retried professor of eduction at Staford University.“IPads are excellent tools to attract kids,but then the fieshness wears off and you eget int hard-core problems of teaching and learning.”
But school leaders say the iPad is not just a cool new toy but rather a powerful and multifunctional tool with a number of applications,including thousands with educational uses.
“If there isn't an application that does something I need ,there will be sooner or later,”said Mr.Reiff,who said he now used an application that includes all of Shakespare's plays.
【小题1】The program of using iPads in class is            .

单词拼写（共10小题；每小题1分，满分10分）
【小题1】She took a year’s leave of a____________ from her job.
【小题2】Sunshine is b_____________ to plants.
【小题3】She was a____________ because her boyfriend didn’t not send short messages to her.
【小题4】In our school, every student has free a___________ to the library.
【小题5】Why has your fellow students’ a____________ changed towards you?
【小题6】One morning his stepmother a______________ him to school, which seldom happened and moved him a lot.
【小题7】There is no need for you to have s______________ for those kids, as they are all wrongdoers
【小题8】David felt very e______________ when he found he didn’t have enough money to pay for the dinner before his friends.
【小题9】His mother is an e_____________ lady, who has had a good education and is always dressed in the latest Paris fashion.
【小题10】To the s_______________ of his parents, Li Feng was admitted into Hong Kong University this September.

根据文章内容，从下框A-F选项中选出能概括每一段主题的最佳选项，选项中有一项为多余。

An interview with a volunteer.

  ___________________

I am a member of our school’s volunteer association. During my freshman(大学一年级新生) year, I was asked to write up a plan for volunteers who assisted patients there. So I visited the hospice (末期病人疗养所) several times. Later, I realized I could do more for the patients and so began volunteering.

  ___________________

When I was a freshman, I was not used to college life. I sometimes felt the hospice was like home. Here, many grannies treated me like their own relative, and I could feel strongly that I was needed. Just shaking hands made them come to life. I not only get great comfort from helping many patients get through the last period of their lives. I also learn a lot from their experiences.

  ___________________

You have to be prepared both mentally and physically. Most people at this hospice are facing death. So you have prepared to be patient and make them happy and relaxed. Also, persistence is needed. After seeing so many people here die, I know that persistence is hard. But you have to remember that you job is to help them feel less pain before death.

   ___________________

Good volunteers have something in common: They regard their job as a career, rather than some task that’s been assigned. They learn to enjoy what they are doing, no matter how boring it is. We have a volunteer who has been with us for more than a year. His job is translating letters from kids we helped. Even when he was busy with his classes, he would take a taxi to our office to pick up the letters. When we asked him why, he told us he enjoyed the kids’ stories and learned a lot from them.

  ___________________

Students are often very enthusiastic and direct. They give us feedback that helps us improve our work. And they value the opportunity we give them to broaden their horizons. However, they are still young and some are not responsible enough. And sometimes, they are lazy and careless.