Question

第二节 读写任务 (共1小题，满分25分)

    阅读下面的短文，然后按照要求写一篇150词左右的英语短文。

Most high schools begin their day around 7:00 a.m., which leaves many teenagers nodding off in the morning. In fact, at least 20 percent of high school students fall asleep in class on a typical day. The problem: Teenagers need a lot of sleep－about nine hours each night, experts say. And most of them aren’t getting enough.

To help sleepy teens, some school districts of USA have tried delaying the opening of the high school day. The Minneapolis school district, for example, changed its start time from 7:20 to 8:40 a.m., giving its 12,000 high schoolers an extra hour and twenty minutes each morning.

Researches show that students in schools of these districts benefit a lot from the change. Students reported less depression when there was a later starting time. And teachers reported that students were more alert and ready for learning. Parents reported that their children were easier to live with because their emotions were more regulated.

Teachers especially wanted a change because they were concerned about student attendance and student readiness to learn that first period of the day. The change resulted in better attendance and less student sleeping in class that first hour.

[写作内容]

某英文学习报刊登了上述文章，并邀请读者就“高中生是否应该推迟上课”进行讨论。假设你是某校高三的学生李华，看了报道后，你打算联系自己的实际发表你的看法，内容要点包括：

1. 以约30词概括上述文章的内容；

2. 以约120词谈谈你的观点，并包括以下内容：

（1）你是否适应你校目前早上的上课时间；

（2）你是否赞成推迟高中早上的上课时间，并说明理由。

[写作要求]

1. 在作文中可以使用自己亲身的经历或虚构的故事，也可以参照阅读材料的内容，但不得直接引用原文中的句子；

2. 作文中不能出现真实姓名和学校名称。

[评分标准]

概括准确，语言规范，内容合适，篇章连贯。

Answer 1

It is reported that some schools in America have delayed starting hours to help sleepy students and that teachers and parents have seen the positive effects on students’ academy and emotion.

In my school, we get up at about six o’clock in the morning and lessons start at seven. As I have been accustomed to early rise since I was a little boy, I am quite used to the time schedule.

So, I think it is absolutely unnecessary to delay the opening of the school day. For one thing, we senior three students need to seize every minute to prepare for the upcoming college entrance examinations and early morning is the best time for our learning. For another, staying with the early start prepares us to enter the work force as very few jobs in the real world allow you to start work at 9 or later in the morning.

As the saying goes, early bird catches the worm. I believe the early start is better for students.