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人教新目标版九年级Unit4 I used to be afraid of the dark. Section B同步练习
My mother was telling me about how she and her family got their first television when she was a teenager. Of course, it was black and white. She said she only watched it at night. When I was young, we had only about 3 or 4 different channels. My brothers, my sisters and I would sometimes fight about which channel to watch. But we usually enjoyed the same shows.
Nowadays, we can get hundreds of channels on TV. There are channels with old movies, cooking, fishing and so on. It's amazing! I wonder how much my brothers, my sisters and I would fight if we had hundreds of channels when I was a child. Of course, we had only one television set. These days I notice families with 2 or 3 or more television sets in their homes. I guess it stops people from arguing over which channel to choose.
Have you ever wondered what an American high school is really like? This article will describe a typical (典型的) high school and its students.
A typical American high school has several large buildings and enough space for about l, 500 students. Every student is given a locker. When students first arrive at school, they go straight to their lockers to put away or get their textbooks and to hang up their outdoor clothes. As American textbooks are expensive, students would rather loan (租借) than buy them. Students must pay back if they lose any of them.
American students have different types of school transport. They usually take a yellow school bus or walk to school if they live close enough. Sometimes their parents drive them to school. When they turn 16 years old, most take a free driving class at school for one term. If students earn passing grades in the class and also pass their state driver's exam, they can begin driving themselves to school.
Each day, students take six or seven classes. They must take Science, Maths, English and Social Studies. They can choose Art, Homemaking, Fashion Design and other classes. In some schools students are required to take one or more of the following special classes: Health Education, Physical Education or Foreign Language Studies. Students move to different classrooms for each subject. This is because each teacher has their own classroom. There is a five-minute break between classes, to give the students the time to hurry to their next class.
The regular school day usually ends early in the afternoon. After school more than half of the students are involved in after-school activities. These activities include sports-especially football, basketball, baseball and soccer or clubs, such as yearbook, speech, school newspaper, photograph or student government.
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Lockers and textbooks | Every student has a locker for textbooks and {#blank#}3{#/blank#} clothes. They prefer loaning textbooks to {#blank#}4{#/blank#} them. |
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Classes and classrooms | Students have to take main classes, elective classes and sometimes one or more {#blank#}8{#/blank#} classes. They go to {#blank#}9{#/blank#} classrooms for each subject. |
After-school activities | After school most of the students take {#blank#}10{#/blank#} in their favorite activities, including sports and clubs. |
This week, our topic is pollution. What are the answers to all of our pollution problems? We asked two experts to give their views.
◇Forest Smith is a member of Green First, an environmental group.
Our future on the Earth looks very bad. We are dumping waste on our land. We can't breathe the fresh air. The sea is polluted too.
I visited some relatives recently in a small village. They grow their own food and cycle everywhere. They are not wealthy, but they are happy and healthy.
We must close the factories producing useless products. That will reduce rubbish and air pollution. We must recycle more, give up all cars, and improve public transport.
A big problem is overpopulation in big cities. We must give up big cities and factories, and go back to a simple way of life.
◇John Green is a scientist at a university.
Things are not as bad as Forest says. We'll have a bright future. We don't need to give up cars but we need to invent better, cleaner engines.
This won't stop the problem of traffic jams. So we need better public transport. We should also recycle more.
But some things are getting better. My sister returned last month after living abroad for five years. She said, “Our old neighbourhood doesn't look the same as before-it is cleaner and greener now.”
In a word, science has brought many improvements to our life.
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What we can do | ◇ {#blank#}5{#/blank#} some factories will reduce rubbish and air pollution. ◇We must recycle more and {#blank#}6{#/blank#} the public transport better. | |
Conclusion: We must go back to a simple way of life | ||
John Green: A {#blank#}7{#/blank#} at a university. | We still have a {#blank#}8{#/blank#} future. | ◇We {#blank#}9{#/blank#} better and cleaner engines because we can't give up cars. ◇We also need better transport and to recycle more. |
Conclusion: Life has been {#blank#}10{#/blank#} a lot because of science. |
I'm Andy. I study at a school in Beijing. There are lots of rules(条例) in my school. We have to wear school uniforms every day, and we can't wear rings. We can't arrive late for school. We can't talk in class. After class, we can't run in the hallways. I can follow most of them, but I can't follow some.
My cousin Mike is in a school in the USA. In his school, students can't bring alcohol(酒) to school Students can't smoke. Students can't colour their hair, and boys can't have long hair. It's easy for Mike to follow them.
My e-friend Julie studies in a school in Canada. In her school, students can't eat in the classroom. They can't listen to music in class. Julie thinks she can obey these rules.
We don't like some of the rules, but most of the rules can help us and we have to follow the rules.
Rules in different schools | |
Schools | Rules |
A school in Beijing | Students have to {#blank#}1{#/blank#} school uniforms every day. |
Students can't wear rings, arrive {#blank#}2{#/blank#} for school, {#blank#}3{#/blank#} in class or {#blank#}4{#/blank#} in the hallways after class. | |
A school in the USA | Students can't {#blank#}5{#/blank#} alcohol to school, smoke or {#blank#}6{#/blank#} their hair. |
Boys can't have {#blank#}7{#/blank#} hair. | |
A school in Canada | Students can't {#blank#}8{#/blank#} in the classroom or listen to {#blank#}9{#/blank#} in class |
Sometimes students don't like the rules, but they have to {#blank#}10{#/blank#} the rules, because most of the rules can help them. |
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