Dear Parents,
As we start the second half of the spring term, I thought it important to update you on some key developments.
Post-16 Collaboration(合作)
We have entered into an exciting new collaboration with Bassaleg Comprehension School, Duffryn High School, St Joseph’s High School, and Coleg Gwent—The Newport West Post-16 partnership. We will be working together to deliver nearly 40 different courses at other schools and likewise, students from other schools will study some subjects here. Information about the courses available to students can be found on the partnership website www. Newftartwest. corn. uk.
Uniform
I would take this opportunity to remind all parents that students are not permitted to wear non-school uniform cardigans (开襟羊毛衫) in Newport High School. It is the responsibility of parents to make sure your son or daughter wears the correct uniform to school. This includes completely black shoes. Over the next half term we will be working with students to develop a cardigan with the school logo which will provide an alternative to the current school jacket.
School Catering.
We are currently seeking a new company to provide school meals. Our new catering provider will be in place at the start of the summer term and will be working with students, parents and staff to provide improvements to our current provision. I look forward to keeping you updated on this development.
Some key dates for you to be aware of over the next half term are:

Tuesday 15March
Year 9&10 Revision Conference
Wednesday 23 March
Year 12& 13 Parents Evening (4:00—7:00 p.m.)
Thursday 31st March
Academic Review Day
Friday 1st April
Teacher Training Day (school closed to students)
Friday 15st April
End of Spring Term
Tuesday 3rd May
Start of Summer Term
Thank you for your continued support.
Your faithfully,
Karyn Keane
【小题1】Karyn Keane wrote the letter on behalf of ______.
A.Bassaleg Comprehensive SchoolB.Newport High School
C.St Joesph’s High SchoolD.Duffryn High School
【小题2】What can be learned about the new collaboration?
A.It involves four schools altogether.
B.Course information will be mailed to every student.
C.Students can choose as many courses as they want.
D.It allows students to learn at other schools.
【小题3】When will the new catering company start working?
A.In MayB.In April C.in MarchD.In June
【小题4】What do we know from the passage?
A.Students will develop a logo for the school.
B.All parents will be invited to school on 23rd March
C.Students won’t go to school on 1st April.
D.The letter was written at the start of the spring term.


第二节 语法填空(共10小题;每小题1.5分,满分15分)
阅读下面短文,按照句子结构的语法性和上下文连贯的要求,在空格处填入一个适当的词或使用括号中词语的正确形式填空,并将答案填写在答题卡标号为31~40的相应位置上。
China's influence on the world's political and economic order has been steadily increasing. Over the past decades, the international political and economic order has been still controlled by a   __31  (hand) of developed countries,   32   the majority of developing nations have been ignored despite their rising calls for the establishment of a new world order. In the 1980s, the Chinese leadership, well aware of the core of the complicated international situation,   33 (repeat) called for a new international political and economic order   34  (set up) on the basis of the Five Principles of Peaceful Coexistence and made continual efforts toward this.  35   its peaceful foreign policy and self-development, China has played an increasingly bigger role in the formulation of the long-expected new international order.
China's provision of sufficient food and clothing to  36   large population, one-fifth of the world's total, is itself a big contribution to world peace and security. Over the past decades, China has never stopped safeguarding the authority of the United Nations and   37   (participate) in UN-led multilateral (多边的) activities. It has   38   actively carried   39  cooperation with other countries on economic, anti-terror, arms control, peacekeeping, human rights, and environmental issues to better deal with the world's major challenges and hot spots. China's extensive cooperation with the rest of the world on trade, finance, investment and energy has also contributed a lot   40   international efforts towards the establishment of an open and just trade system and the improvement of the current international financial system. All these will help trade disputes be resolved through dialog and negotiation.

While there is no widely accepted definition of MOOCs, their key features are open access:they are currently free to participants, no entry qualifications are required, they support an unlimited number of participants and as yet, very few include any form of accreditation (认证).
Currently offered by some famous universities, MOOCs are attractive to people who do not have the financial resources to meet the growing costs of university education, or who do not have formal qualifications. They also allow participants to study at their own pace.
The potential for MOOCs to deliver education is obviously vast—they could be considered as a huge step forwards in widening participation. They also have the potential to provide a unique window on universities that offer popular and valuable courses, they may attract some participants to register for formal fee-paying programmes at the same or other universities and are likely to promote new ways of on-line education.
However, it is still very early days for MOOCs. The quality of the education provision is highly variable, with many courses offering only recordings of lectures, and delivery is particularly difficult in some special fields that require practical classes, research projects or extensive library access. Besides, wider engagement with participants requires very considerable resource. Even limited feedback or examination becomes a major task if there are several thousand students in the class.
Considering the challenges, some people argue MOOCs will soon evaporate (蒸发). But they certainly provide good opportunity for widening higher education, are a means of raising awareness of universities to audiences of tens or hundreds of thousands, and are well worthy of serious consideration. (271 words)

For many businessmen online education has been a dream.Now it has come true.The investment (投资) in higher education, whether financial or in terms of time, has long been impossible for many of them.But well-known educational institutions have chosen to deliver an internet-based program, and these barriers(障碍) have been lifted.

  That is good news for people eager to improve themselves and is more attractive to employers.It is also a benefit to industry with better qualified candidates(候选人) applying for jobs at every level.

  Having the benefits of a higher qualification(资格) without going to the university campus is attractive to many students.Campus study means greater cost, while online programs are flexible and save time, whether at home or at work.Students can achieve their degrees without causing too much disruption to their career or home life.

  In addition to affordable, flexible(灵活) classes and greater convenience, students also have access to the online learning resources of many of the world’s top educational institutions.They can also communicate with their tutors no matter what time it is or whether either party is away for any reason.

  This has opened up the possibility of getting a qualification from a university or college that many students could only have dreamed of in the past.It also allows specialists to get the precise qualifications and focus on their studies.As well as seeing the increase of applicants from lower-incomes and housewives, studying online in the US is even becoming popular with younger people of college age.

  Employers have become increasingly welcome and positive to online qualifications as more candidates earn them, especially if they’re properly approved by the US Department of Education.

  US institutions have led the way in online education provision(供给).Many top US colleges and universities offer a range of online programs that are highly respected and in every way perfectly fit for adults who need to combine their studies with a working life.

1.According to Paragraph 1, many US colleges and universities ______.

A.have begun to lift the barriers to financial investment

B.have begun to run an internet-based program

C.have had a dream of offering online education

D.have gained financial investment

2.Why do people choose online education?

A.They can find jobs more easily than on-campus graduates.

B.They can get qualifications from US Department of Education.

C.They can save money and arrange their time and courses freely.

D.They can invest money in different courses provided online.

3.The underlined word “disruption” in the third paragraph probably mean ______.

A.dissatisfaction          B.attention  C.attraction     D.interruption

4.Which would be a good title for the passage?

A.Adult Education Online

B.Online Education Taking the Place of Campus Education

C.Top US Universities Offering Online Education

D.The Best of USA’s Online Education

 

Loren Gladstone of Toronto is 58, but thinking over how to bequeath (遗赠) his digital property(财产). Doing the paperwork after his parents' death was a challenge. “When my time comes, I wonder if my children will even know what paper is,” he says. As a software developer, his virtual property is both valuable and vital to his business. That reflects a problem. Online lives have increasing economic and emotional value. But testamentary (遗嘱) laws offer confusing and incomplete ways of bequeathing and inheriting (继承) them.

Digital property may include software, websites, downloaded content, online gaming identities, social-media accounts and even e-mails. In Britain alone holdings of digital music may be worth over £9 billion ($14 billion). A fifth of respondents to a Chinese local-newspaper survey said they had over 5,000 yuan($790) of digital property. And value does not lie only in money.“Anyone with kids under 14 years old probably has two prints of them and the rest are in online galleries,”says Nathan Lustig of Entrustet, a company that helps people manage digital property.

Service providers have different rules—and few state them clearly in their terms and conditions. Many give users a personal right to use an account, but nobody else, even after death. Facebook allows relatives to close an account or turn it into a memorial page. Gmail (run by Google) will provide copies of e-mails to an executor (遗嘱执行人). Music downloaded via iTunes is held under a license which can be abolished on death. Apple declined to comment on the record on this or other policies. All e-mail and data on its iCloud service are deleted on the death of the owner.

This has led to cases to court in America. In 2004 the family of Justin Ellsworth, an army man killed in Iraq, took Yahoo! to court in Michigan to get copies of his e-mails. This year, a court in Oregon ruled that another American mother whose son had died could use her dead son's password to enter his Facebook account for a short period. Now five American states have made laws giving executors control over the social-networking accounts of dead users.

But this raises the subject of privacy. Passing music on is one thing; not everyone may want their relatives to read their e-mails. Colin Pearson, a London-based lawyer, says access should come only with a clear provision in a will.

But laws, wills and password safes may be contrary to the providers' terms of service, especially when the executor is in one country and the data in another. Headaches for the living and lots of lovely work for lawyers.

1.Why does Loren begin to think over how to bequeath his digital property at the age of 58?

A. Because he is afraid his children don't know what paper is.

B. Because there's no complete law dealing with digital property.

C. Because his digital property is of great value and importance.

D. Because he is worried his children will be taken to court.

2.Which of the following can be inferred from the passage?

A. Digital property is assessed in terms of nothing except money.

B. No laws in America have been made to deal with digital property.

C. The relatives may read the e-mail of the dead without permission.

D. Lawyers can make money through cases about digital property.

3.Facebook, Google and Apple have a similar rule that ________.

A. users are offered accounts used by nobody else except users themselves

B. relatives of the dead may close an account or use it at their own will

C. the executor may enter the e-mail and read it by themselves at any time

D. the data downloaded by the dead will be copied and then deleted from net

4.Which of the following can best serve as the title of the passage?

A. Digital Information                                        B. Testamentary Laws

C. Deathless Data                                           D. Vital Property

 

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