__1._. You don’t show your secret personality when you are awake because you can control your behavior, but when you are asleep, your sleeping position shows the real you. __2.__. The important position is the one that you go to sleep in.

If you go to sleep on your back, you’re a very open person. You normally trust people and you are easily influenced by fashion or new ideas. You don’t like to displease people. So you never express your real feelings. __3.__.

If you sleep on your stomach, you are a rather secretive person. You worry a lot and you’re always easily upset. You always stick to your own opinions or judgment, but you aren’t very ambitious. __4.__. This means that you enjoy having a good time.

If you sleep curled up, you are probably a very nervous person. You have a low opinion of yourself and so you’re often delusive(不真实的,虚假的 ).You’re shy and you don’t normally like meeting people. You prefer to on your own, You’re easily hurt.

If you sleep on your side, you have usually got a well-balanced personality. _5.__.You’re usually careful. You believe in yourself. You sometimes feel anxious, but you don’t often get sad. You always say what you think even if it makes people rather angry.

A. You’re quite shy and you aren’t quite sure of yourself

B. You know your strengths and weaknesses

C. Normally people seldom change their sleeping position

D. Everyone has got two personalities—the one that is shown to the world and the other that is secret and real

E. Maybe you don’t want to make friends with a person who sleeps curled up

F. You usually live for today not tomorrow

G. In a normal night, of course, people frequently change their positions

The practice of students endlessly copying letters and sentences from a blackboard is a thing of the past. With the coming of new technologies like computers and smartphone, writing by hand has become something of nostalgic (怀旧的)skill. However, while today’s educators are using more and more technology in their teaching, many believe basic handwriting skills are still necessary for students to be successful---both in school and in life.

Virginia Berninger, professor of educational psychology at the University of Washington, says it’s important to continue teaching handwriting and help children acquire the skill of writing by hand.

Berninger and her colleagues conducted a study that looked at the ability of students to complete various writing tasks---both on a computer and by hand. The study, published in 2009, found that when writing with a pen and paper, participants wrote longer essays and more complete sentences and had a faster word production rate.

In a more recent study, Berninger looked at what role spelling plays in a student’s writing skills and found that how well children spell is tied to know well they can write. “Spelling makes some of the thinking parts of the brain active which helps us access our vocabulary, word meaning and concepts. It is allowing our written language to connect with ideas.” Berninger said.

Spelling helps students translate ideas into words in their mind first and then to transcribe(转换) “those words in the mind written symbols on paper or keyboard and screen,” the study said. Seeing the words in the “mind’s eye” helps children not only to turn their ideas into words, says Berninger, but also to spot(发现) spelling mistakes when they write the words down and to correct then over time.

“In our computer age, some people believe that we don’t have to teach spelling because we have spell checks,” she said. “But until a child has a functional spelling ability of about a fifth grade level, they won’t have the knowledge to choose the correct spelling among the options given by the computer.”

1.What makes writing by hand a thing of the past?

A. The absence of blackboard in classroom.

B. The use of new technologies in teaching.

C. The lack of practice in handwriting.

D. The popular use of smartphones.

2.Berninger’s study published in 2009 ___________.

A. focused on the difference between writing by hand and on a computer.

B. indicated that students prefer to write with a pen and paper.

C. found that good essays are made up of long sentences.

D. discussed the importance of writing speed.

3.Which of the following best shows the role of spelling?

A. Spelling improves one’s memory of words.

B. Spelling ability is closely related to writing ability.

C. Spelling benefits the translation from words into ideas.

D. Spelling slows down finding exact words to express ideas.

4.What does “mind’s eye” in paragraph 5 mean?

A. Window. B. SoulC. Picture. D. Imagination.

5.What conclusion could be drawn from the passage?

A. Computers can help people with their choice of words.

B. Spell checks can take the place of spelling teaching.

C. Handwriting still has a place in today’s classrooms.

D. Functional spelling ability develops fast in the fifth grade.

As the leaves change color in autumn, students return to school.As a frost covers the ground each night, we are busy planting vegetables in northern Wisconsin.

Five public school districts in northern Wisconsin recently built high tunnels (隧道) for the winter growing season.The schools’ high tunnels, made of metal frame and a plastic covering the raised beds, keep plants warm enough to extend the growing season through the winter and allow an earlier spring planting.Our very short growing season occurs almost entirely during the summer vacation months.This makes the high tunnels necessary in allowing students to gain experience of growing and marketing produce in a cold climate where production at this scale couldn’t otherwise happen during the school year.

During the summer, the high tunnels on school grounds still need to remain there.We developed the Agripreneur program(Agriculture + Entrepreneur) to support students’ work in the high tunnels during months when students are are on holidays.This program was made possible by a farm and a university.Each summer, a pair of students will be hired from every high school to care for and sell a single crop in exchange for instruction from professional lo-cal farmers, growing experience, and a salary.

The Agripreneur program appeared for its first season during the summer of 2015.Students grew tomatoes that were sold to community members, local restaurants and the school cafeterias(食堂).The program met its goal of increasing the number of local vegetables consumed, both within the region and in school lunches.Sales to school cafeterias will continue through the winter as the high tunnels’ change to nutrient root vegetables, all grown by students.

We may live in winter, but with the recent addition of these school high tunnels, our students are able to eat the freshest local vegetables available—even during the coldest months.

1.What do we know about the school’s high tunnels?

A. They are actually greenhouses.

B. They are actually metal containers.

C. They are entirely used for planting vegetables in summer.

D. They are mainly used as reading rooms for students.

2.High tunnels are being used in the school districts because of ______.

A. students’ interest in planting.

B. the larger need of crops there.

C. the short growing season there.

D. no fresh vegetables available there.

3.The Agripreneur program was created to______.

A. get farmers to produce more crops.

B. check students’ work on the high tunnels.

C. get instructions from professional local farmers.

D. help students do their work in the high tunnels in holidays.

4.What can be the best title for the text?

A. Crops Are Planted in Winter

B. Students Are Becoming Scientists

C. Schools Have the Vegetable Market

D. New Growing Season Begins Under High Tunnels

5.It was a sunny day.A little boy's father was sitting on the couch,drinking a beer while watching (61)a basketball match.Seeing this,the boy rushed to his father and shouted,"Daddy,show me how to play catch!"The father,staring(62)atthe television screen,replied,"Let me finish watching the match.Play outside and come back in five minutes."
"Okay,Daddy!"said the boy,running out of the room.Five minutes later,the boy returned,(63)screaming(scream),"Daddy,let's play catch now!"
By this time,the father had opened another cold beer and another match was beginning.
(64)Impatient (patient) with the boy's interruption.the dad brought a magazine to his son.On the cover of the magazine was a large picture of the world.The father,who was angry and (65)bothered(bother),began tearing the magazine cover into small(66)pieces.Then,the father turned to his boy and said,"Son,once you put this picture back together,we can play catch,but do not interrupt me again (67)until/before you finish."
A few minutes later,the boy returned and said,"I(68)have finished(finish),Daddy!Can we play catch now?"Surprised,the father glanced towards his child,and (69)therelay the magazine with the world pieced perfectly together in his small hands.The dad asked his child how he put the world together so quickly.
‘‘(70)Itwas simple,"said the boy."On the back of the world was the picture of a person,and once I put the person together,that's when the world came together."

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