Starting high school means many changes in your life. Most teenagers look forward to the first day of high school? but still feel a little bit nervous. In or?der to make your high school life easier,you can follow these tips.

  Learn all you can about your first day before the first day. Take part in some activities that are held at the school for new students to know the school better. If parents are invited to these activities,take yours with you. Carefully look over all the materials you receive. Be sure you know where the school buildings are.

  Get the things you will need for class. Buy the things suggested on your teachers' supply lists and place your materials for each class separately.

  Keep up with your high school workload (工作量) .If you find you're not doing well in a subject,make use of after-school study groups or ask your teacher to help you with your schoolwork after school. Consider private tuto?ring to get you through a difficult time.

  There are more after-school activities in high school than in middle school,such as clubs,music and theatre groups? student government,and sports teams. Make friends and be seen at such school activities. Join a club or other organizations to meet people and develop friendships. Ask someone in school activities if you don't know how. This is a good time to do what you like doing and an opportunity to try new things. Who said school has to be all work and no play?

Since you'll attend more activities in high school than in middle school,you'll have to learn how to manage your time.

1. The writer writes this passage to         .

   A. advise us to study hard in high school

   B. tell us how to live an easier life in high school

   C. show that we may live a hard life in high school

   D. explain why there will be many changes in high school

2. In Paragraph 2 ,the writer suggests that we should         .

   A. ask our parents to walk us to school

   B. ask other students about our high school

   C. prepare all the things we need for our classes

   D. learn about our high school well before attending it

3. According to Paragraph 4 ,what should we do if we are not doing well in a subject?

   A. We should get help from others.

   B. We should stop going to activities.

   C. We should spend most of our time on it.

   D. We should give it up if it is not important.

4. In Paragraph 5,the writer wants to tell us that         .

   A. every coin has two sides

   B. the early bird catches the worm

   C. where there is a will,there is a way

   D. all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy

5. What will the writer most probably talk about next?

   A. How to manage time well in high school.

   B. Why we need to learn how to manage time.

   C. How to attend more activities in high school.

   D. Why middle school is different from high school.

  Elizabeth Blackwell was born in England in 1821,and moved to New York City when she was ten years old. One day she decided that she wanted to become a doctor. That was nearly impossible for a woman in the middle of the nineteenth century. After writing many letters asking for admission (准许进A) to medical schools,she was finally accepted by a doctor in Philadelphia. She was so determined that she taught in school and gave music lessons to get money for the cost of schooling.

  In 1849,after graduation from the medical school,she decided to further her education in Paris. She wanted to be a surgeon (外科医师) ,but a serious eye problem forced her to give up the idea.  

  Upon returning to the United States,she found it difficult to start her own practice because she was a woman. By 1857 Elizabeth and her sister,also a doctor,along with another woman doctor,managed to open a new hospital― the first for women and children. Besides being the first woman physician and founding her own hospital,she also set up the first medical school for women.

5. Why couldn't Elizabeth Blackwell realize her dream of becoming a surgeon?

   A. She couldn't get admitted to medical schools.

   B. She decided to further her education in Paris.

   C. A serious eye problem stopped her.

   D. It was difficult for her to start practice in the United States.

6. What main obstacle (障碍) almost destroyed Elizabeth's chances to become a doctor?

   A. She was a woman.

   B. She wrote too many letters.

   C. She couldn't graduate from the medical school.

   D. She couldn't set up her hospital.

7. How many years passed between her graduation from the medical school and the opening of her hospital?

   A. Eight years.

   B. Ten years.

   C. Nineteen years.

   D. Thirty-six years.

8. According to the passage,all of the following are "firsts" in the life of Elizabeth Blackwell except that she     .

   A. became the first woman physician

   B. was the first woman doctor

   C. and several other women founded the first hospital for women and chil?dren

   D. set up the first medical school for women

9. Elizabeth Blackwell spent most of her lift in     .

   A. England   B. Paris

   C. the United States   D. New York City 

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