One of the most popular items(项目) in the school newspaper is the advice column. No one knows who writes it. The students think their teacher does, but it might be a student using a false name.

The students enjoy thinking up problems for the advice column. Here are some of them and their answers.

Ask the Wise Owl

Q: I’m always late for school. I try not to be, but I can’t help it. Please advise me what to do. Tommy.

A: You are probably late for school because you don’t really like school. My advice to you is to try and enjoy school more, then you won’t be late so often.

Q: I find it difficult to make friends. What do you think I should do? Sara.

A: I can’t advise you until I know more about you. Your problem may be that you are shy. On the other hand, it may be the opposite. You may be too bold(冒失). Write and tell me more about yourself.

Q: I’m always at the bottom(底部，末尾) of the class. What do you advise me to do? Molly.

A: I advise you to concentrate on(全神贯注) improving your grades in one subject to start with. If you can do this, you should move a little way up from the bottom. Next, try to improve your grades in another subject, and so on. If you concentrate on one subject at a time, by the end of the year you should be quite a long way up from the bottom in all your classes.

1.What is Tommy’s problem?

2.What does Molly want to do?

3.What does the Wise Owl want Sara to do?

4.By the end of the year, where should Molly be in all her classes?

5.What is the main idea of this passage?

Modern life is impossible without traveling. The fastest way of traveling is by plane. With a modern airliner(客机), you can travel in one day to places which needed a month or more to get to hundreds of years ago.
Traveling by train is slower than by plane, but you can see the places you are traveling through. Modern trains have comfortable seats and dining－cars. They even make the longest journey enjoyable(令人愉快的).
Some people prefer to travel by sea. You can visit many other countries or different parts of your country. Ships are not so fast as trains or planes, but traveling by sea is a very pleasant way to spend a holiday.
Many people like to travel by car. You can make your own timetable. You can travel three or four hundred miles or only fifty or one hundred miles a day, just as you like. You can stop if there is something interesting, for example, at a good restaurant where you can enjoy a good meal, or at a hotel to spend the night. That’s why traveling by car is popular for pleasure trips, while people usually take a train or a plane when they travel on business.
【小题1】From the passage, we know the fastest way of traveling is _______.

  Many people go to school for a good education. They learn languages ,history, maths and other subjects. School education is very important and useful, yet no one can learn everything from school. No matter how much a teacher knows, he can’t teach his students everything they want to know. His work is to show his students how to learn.He teaches them how to read and how to think. So, much more is to be learned outside school by the students themselves.

  It is always more important to know how to study by oneself. It is quite easy to learn something in language or formula (公式 )in maths, but it is difficult to use a formula to find the answer to a maths problem. Great inventors do not get everything from school, but they can invent many things and change the world a lot. Though Thomas Edison invented many things, he didn’t have much school education. How do they do all this ? A lot of things are not taught in the classroom. They get knowledge( 知识 ) from books outside school. They work hard all their lives, and the most important thing is that they know how to use their heads.

1. Why do many people go to school?__________

  A. to get a good education    B. to buy some books

  C. to make friends          D. to meet different teachers

2. What should a student try to do since he cannot learn everything from school?____ ____.

  A. try to remember more knowledge and formulas

  B.try to remember what the teacher teach

  C. try to learn how to read and how to think

  D. try to read a lot of books

3. How can an inventor invent things? The most important thing is how to ____.

  A. get knowledge            B. use his head well

  C. teach everything          D. learn more knowledge from his teacher

4. Which of the following is TRUE?__________

   A. School education is not important for a person

   B. A student should learn how to study

   C. A student can learn everything from school

   D. A good teacher can teach everything.

What do you think is the best way to pass an examination? The only way out is to work hard every day in the school year. If you are lazy(懒的) for most the year and the work hard at your lessons only a few days before the exam, you are sure to fail. If you want to get good marks(分数) in the English exam , try to read stories in English every day. Speak English whenever you can. Before you start the exam, read carefully the question, try to understand the exact(确切的) meaning of each. When you have finished your exam at last, read over your answers, correct(纠正) the mistakes if there are any and be sure that you have not missed anything out.

1. How can we do well in an exam?

A.      We should study hard in the school year.

B.      We’d better go to bed a bit earlier before the exam.

C.      We should read over the papers before handing them in.

D.      We must do A、B and C.

2.Make sure that you ______before you give the papers to the teacher.

A. remember the rules of grammar

B. have thought over and over again.

C. have answered all the questions

D. have read many stories in English

3.What the writer said is ______.

A. not  useful  B. mistaken  C. helpful D. hard to understand