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.

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1. I don't know how to describe the beauty of my hometown. It's     .

2.     I didn't like English,but later I became interested in it.

3. You must finish the work before you go home.    ，it must be fin- ished before 6 o'clock.

4. The art show was     being a failure;it was a great success.

5. A lot of audience     the fantastic magic of Liu Qian and have become fans of him.

5. They looked forward with hope     hearing from you.

4. I don't believe he has finished his homework,    ？

3. Americans eat more than twice     many vegetables per person today as they did in 1910.

2. She is nothing     her brother. He's lively while she is shy.

1. If you want to improve your study,you should first change your attitude      it.

10. He gave us a     (describe) of what he had experienced on the island.

9.     (tire) of the long     (bore) film,they went out of the theatre.

8. The red building made of stones is twice the     (high) of the green one.