Electronic (电子的) books, or e-books, have changed the way many of us read. Now, electronic textbooks are changing the way many students    1  . Many schools in Washington have begun using online course materials for their students. Rather than using a regular textbook, it’s all online.
“Our students are ready to use resources (资源) from different   2  ,” said the head teacher, Peter Noonan. He talked about the   3   of electronic textbooks to a reporter. “The world is changing   4 . Online textbooks can change right along with the things that are happening.  Besides, electronic textbooks   5  less than regular textbooks. We need to pay $8 million for the regular textbooks for our students, but we only need to spend $6 million   6   the electronic textbooks,” said Peter Noonan.
Students have different ideas about the change,   7  most like it. “I don’t have to carry a textbook around, so that is   8  ,” said a high school student named Melanie Reuter. Maria didn’t   9 . “I don’t like it because the Internet sometimes doesn’t work.”
Some students don’t have a computer or can’t go online at home. Stephen is   10  of them. But he said, “I can go to the library, or go to a friend’s house, to go online.”

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The Greenest School in Britain

The pupils and teachers at Fairfield School think it's worth looking after the environment! This is what they've been doing:

Growing vegetables

Fairfield School pupils started their own vegetable garden. Both children and teachers plant and water the seeds ( 种子), then I hey pick the vegetables, which are used in school meals. Now they can all enjoy healthy food at lunchtime. "School dinners are tastier than ever before! " says one pupil.

Recycling

The Fairfield pupils don't just bring their books to school—they bring their rubbish too! There are recycling bins (回收箱 )in the playground for cans, plastic bottles, batteries and paper. The teachers give a prize every month to the pupil who's tried the hardest to recycle.

Planting trees

"This used to be one of the least beautiful areas of the city with no green areas, says the head teacher Lynne Johnson. "Now every child has planted their own tree, which he or she looks after during the week. They've made the view from the classroom more beautiful!

Finding cleaner ways to get around

Everyone walks or cycles to Fairfield School! "When the roads are busy, it’s faster to ride bikes than to go by car anyway,” says one pupil. Even the teachers don't use their cars. "We won't encourage our pupils to look after the environment if we don't do it ourselves! " says one teacher.

1.Every month the pupil who has done the best to recycle will_ _from the

teachers.

Bringing a giraffe into the world is a tall order. A baby giraffe is born 10 feet high and usually lands on its back. Within seconds it rolls over its legs under its body. Then the mother giraffe rudely introduces its children to the reality of life.
In his book, A View from the Zoo, Gary Richmond describes how a new-born giraffe learns its first lesson.
The mother giraffe lowers her head long enough to take a quick look. Then she puts herself directly over her child. She waits for about a minute, and then she does the most unreasonable thing. She throws her long leg and kicks her baby, so that it’s sent sprawling(四脚朝天).
When it doesn’t get up, the process is repeated again and again. The struggle to rise is important. As the baby giraffe grows tired, the mother kicks it again. Finally, it stands for the first time on its shaky legs. Then the mother giraffe kicks it off its feet again. Why? She wants it to remember how it got up. In the wild, a baby giraffe must be able to get up as quickly as possible to stay with its group, where there’s safety.
Another writer named Irving Stone understood this. He spent a lifetime studying greatness, writing stories about such men as Michelangelo, Vincent van Gogh, Sigmund Freud, and Charles Darwin.
Stone was once asked if he had found something that runs through the lives of all these great people. He said, “I write about people who sometime in their life have a dream of something. They’re beaten over the head, knocked down and for years they get nowhere. But every time they stand up again. And at the end of their lives they’ve realized some small parts of what they set out to do .”
【小题1】What does the underlined part “a tall order” in Paragraph 1 mean?

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I had a summer camp with my classmates last year. Early in the morning. We gathered at the bus station. After saying goodbye to our parents，we got on the buses. It took us more than two hours to arrive at the campground. We got off the buses cheerfully. Laughing and shouting. We jumped and ran all over the place. It was the first time for us to be away from the parents .Some of us started to feel homesick(想家). However, when the night party and dances began, the homesickness was gone. The next day, everybody rushed to the boating class, hoping to be at the head of the others. At first ，my friends and I worked hard, but the boat wouldn’t listen to us and kept going round and round. Then the teacher taught us how to work together. After many tries, we did much better. Swimming class was my favorite. It was about the hottest time of a day and the best time to stay in the cool water. The swimming teacher was a funny man, and during the class he often made us laugh happily. During the week I learned a lot of new things and made many new friends. I also learned how to take care of myself.

1.They got to the campground__________ .

2.The campground was __________ from their homes.  

3.Why swimming class was the writer’s favorite?    

4.Which statement is NOT true?

5.Which is the best title for the passage?