#117: Some people like to have friends who are different from them. Others like to have friends who are similar to them. What kind of friends do you want for yourself?
Kate
Join Date: March, 2010
Location: the United Kingdom
I like to have friends who are like me. Both my best friend Vades and I like traveling. We went to Italy last month and stayed there for a week. Next month we want to go to France. However, Vades is more athletic than me. 
Ditlady
Join Date: April, 2010
Location: Canada 
I like to have friends who are like me. It can be very helpful. I’m a little quiet and my good friend Libby is quiet, too. Sometimes I don’t know what to do with my problems and she can tell me what I should do, because she knows about me better than people who are different from me.
Harbinger
Join Date: May, 2010
Hi, everyone! I had a cold last week and just got here. In my opinion, it is important to have different kinds of friends. That makes your life more interesting.
【小题1】Where is Kate going next month?
A. To the USA.          B. To the UK.        C. To Italy.       D. To France.
【小题2】What’s Libby like?
A.She’s as beautiful as Ditlady.B.She’s more outgoing than Ditlady.
C.She’s as quiet as Ditlady.D.She’s more athletic than Ditlady.
【小题3】What was the matter with Harbinger last week?
A.He had a cold.B.He had a headache.
C.He had a fever.D.He had a toothache.
【小题4】What kind of friends does Harbinger like to have?
A.Those who are different from him.B.Those who are the same as him.
C.He doesn’t like to make friends.D.He likes to have different kinds of friends.
【小题5】What does the underlined word “similar” mean?
A.一致的B.相似的C.友好的D.简单的
Perhaps you have heard a lot about the Internet, but what is it, do you know? The Internet is a network. It uses the telephone to join millions of computer together around the world.
Maybe that doesn’t sound very interesting. But when you are joined to the internet, there are lots and lots of things you can do. You can send e-mail to your friends, and they can get them in a few seconds. You can also do with all kinds of information on the World Wide Web (WWW).                                              
There are many different kinds of computers now. They all can be joined to the internet. Most of them are small machines sitting on people’s desks at home, but there are still many others in schools, offices, or large companies. These computers are owned by people and companies, but no one really owns the internet itself.
There are lots of places for you to go into the internet. For example, your school may have the internet. You use it during lessons or free time. Libraries often have computers joined to the internet. You are welcome to use it at any time.
Thanks to the internet, the world is becoming small. It is possible for you to work at home with a computer in front, getting and sending the information you need. You can buy or sell what ever you want by the internet. But do you know 98% of the information on the internet is in English? So what will English be like tomorrow?
【小题1】What is the passage mainly about?
A internet     B information       C computers       D E-mails
【小题2】Which is the quickest and cheapest way to send messages to your friends?
A by post     B by e-mail       C by telephone     D by satellite
【小题3】Which may be the most possible place for people to work tomorrow?
A in the office     B at school     C at home    D in the company
【小题4】Who is the owner of the internet?
A The headmaster    B The officer     C The user      D No one
【小题5】What does the writer try to tell us with the last two sentences?
A English is important in using the internet.
B The internet is more and more popular.
C Most of the information is in English.
D Every computer must have the internet.
To most of us, school means classes, teachers, schedules, grades and tests. But for the children at Sudbury Valley School in Massachusetts, school is very different.

Firstly, there are no lessons. All the children, aged between 4 and 19, do whatever they want. There are no teachers, only “staff members”. The idea behind this is that you do not need to make children learn, because children want to learn anyway. “You do not need to say to a three-year-old, ‘Go explore your environment.’ You can’t stop them!”says Daniel Greenberg, a founder of the school. “But if you make children do what you want all day… they will lose all taste of learning.” At Sudbury Valley School, you will find children talking, reading, painting, cooking, working on computers, studying French, playing the piano, climbing trees, or just running around. Two boys spent three years just fishing!
The other way that Sudbury Valley School is different is that the children can decide the rules. Every week, there is a school meeting where both children and staff have one vote (投票)each—even the four-year-olds. They decide the school rules, how to spend the school money, and even which staff they want and do not want anymore.
When the school first opened in 1968, people said it would never work. But today, the school has 200 students, and 80% of its students go on to college. Even the two boys who went fishing all the time have successful careers today. One of them is a musician and the other is a computer scientist.
【小题1】What's special about the school?
A.There is nobody but students there.
B.All the students are of the same age.
C.There are no classes for the students.
D.There are no rules in the school.
【小题2】What do the students do in the school?
A.They learn everything there from the staff members.
B.They grow up there without learning anything.
C.They spend all the time with their parents.
D.They do whatever they are interested in.
【小题3】The school seems to believe that children________.
A.learn best when they are doing what they want
B.are too young to learn anything by themselves
C.can look after themselves without any help
D.can't go to college without any hard work
【小题4】The last paragraph wants to tell us that_         .
A.the writer doesn't like the idea of the school
B.the school is quite successful in its work
C.most of the parents don't believe in the school
D.younger students learn better there than older ones
【小题5】The underlined word career in the last paragraph most probably means_.
A. family   B. money    C. lifestyle   d. job

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