A school is showing badly-behaved pupils the error of their ways by sending them to an arts centre where actors mimic their behavior.

The Windsor boys’ secondary school used its school founding to save its local arts centre and establish a learning support unit there.

Now expelled(被开除的) pupils and students who are likely to be expelled are studying a course at the unit in Windsor arts centre while also working with artists. One pupil was asked to show Naomi Jackson, the drama teacher at the unit, how he had acted in a fierce argument with a teacher on the rugby filed, which led to his expulsion（开除）. Then he showed her how to imitate(模仿) his attitude.

Ms. Jackson said, “He saw that the teacher had to get him out. Until then, he didn’t really understand because he didn’t have that self-awareness.”

“It gave him the chance to look at himself from the outside.”

Students also work in groups, acting as the aggressor, the victim and an observer to help them develop more awareness and understanding.

A professional theatre group, Everyday Theatre, which consists of former pupils, is at the school and works in the learning support unit.

An arts therapist(治疗专家) also helps students in the unit to express their problems and a street dancer builds up their discipline, concentration and capacity for hard work.

Jane Turner is the teacher in charge of the Starts Project, which stands for Supportive Training and Arts.

She said, “It’s about using the arts to develop social skills as well as anger management, rather than just trying to make them good at drama or arts.”

53. What is the passage mainly about?

A.      How a school keeps students good at drama and arts.

B.      Why students are interested in learning drama and arts.

C.      A new attempt making students change their bad behavior.

D.     An unusual idea to turn badly-behaved students into excellent ones.

54. The underlined word “mimic”(in Paragraph 1) probably means   .

A. correct           B. watch             C. improve                 D. imitate

55. The artists at the Windsor boys’ secondary school are working towards their goal by   .

A.      getting rid of students’ dissatisfaction 

B. developing students’ awareness of their error

C.  reducing the courses and making them easier 

D. encouraging students’ imagination in subjects.

56. All of the following people work at the arts centre EXCEPT   .

A. an arts therapist             B. actors              C. former teachers       D. a street dancer

OK, so you’ve decided on a career in the media, and you are sick to death with people telling you how competitive the industries are. You know you are going to have to get in any which way you can, and that this will probably mean making tea and photocopying, and you are prepared.

But that may mean that you will find it a little disappointing when you emerge from an environment where your ideas or you have been publishing your own magazines, and enter a place where perhaps no one will ask you your name, or say hello to you in the morning, and where you are being perhaps not paid to do a job.

There are a number of training schemes offered across the media, which are a great route in . Simon Winder was given his start in publishing by the MacMillan’s training scheme. “I was sent out to Africa and Asia for a couple of years, selling educational books. It was a terrible job in many ways but interesting training,” says Winder. Because he had learnt first-hand about the business of publishing, his training prepared him for a career in the industry. On his return to England, Winder made the move to a senior position at Penguin seven years ago.

If you can’t get on to a training scheme, or get a paid job straight away, then offering your services for free will open up many opportunities to you. It is all about proving that you can do the job. “Identify companies and people whose programmes you like, and then simply write to them,” Connock advises those wanting to break into television, “Offer to work for free if you possibly can, and the chances are you will impress with your hard work and ideas, and end up staying on in paid employment. That’s how practically every employee of Ten Alps ended up with the company.”

Wherever you start out, if you work hard at what you do, your efforts will be rewarded. “Don’t focus on where you want to end up,” advises Ross, “You’ll know where that is when you’re there; just stay focused on the job in hand, and do that as well as you can.”

1．The main idea of this passage is probably ______.

    A．how to develop a career in the media

    B．the difficulties you will face in finding a job in the media

    C．the tiring work you have to do at first in the media

    D．what low pay you’ll get in the media

2．What did the writer intend to tell us in the second paragraph?

    A．No one is willing to speak to you.

    B．You are the least important person in the unit.

    C．You will feel being ignored at the beginning.

    D．You have to work without pay.

3．The ways you can enter the media include ______.

    A．learning the first hand experience about the business

    B．taking park in training schemes or working for it for free

    C．studying the companies and people you like

    D．showing your ability while you are working

4．As a whole, what attitude should you have while trying to enter the media industry?

    A．Watch out for your future career.

    B．Pay attention to the relationship between your workmates.

    C．Work heart and soul to do your present work well.

    D．Find chances to show off your ability.

Oscar the cat seems to have an unnatural ability for predicting when nursing home patients are going to die, by curling up (蜷伏) next to them during their final hours. His accuracy, observed in 25 cases, has led the staff to call family members once he has chosen someone. It usually means the patient has less than four hours to live. "Many family members take some comfort from it. They appreciate the companionship that the cat provides for their dying loved one," said Dosa, a doctor and assistant professor of medicine at Brown University.
The 2-year-old cat was adopted as a kitten and grew up in a third-floor dementia (痴呆) unit at the Steere House Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, where the facility treats people with Alzheimer's, Parkinson's disease and other illnesses. After about six months, the staff noticed Oscar would make his own rounds, just like the doctors and nurses. He'd smell and observe patients, then sit beside people who would end up dying in a few hours. Dosa said Oscar seems to take his work seriously. "This is not a cat that's friendly to people," he said.
"Oscar is better at predicting death than the people who work here," said Dr. Joan Teno of Brown University, who treats patients at the nursing home and is an expert on care for the terminally ill. She was convinced of Oscar's talent when he made his 13th correct call. While observing one patient, Teno said she noticed the woman wasn't eating, was breathing with difficulty and that her legs had a bluish color, signs that often mean death is near. Oscar wouldn't stay inside the room, though, so Teno thought bis streak was broken. Instead, it turned out the doctor's prediction was roughly 10 hours too early. Sure enough, during the patient's final two hours, nurses told Teno that Oscar joined the woman at her bedside.
Doctors say most of the people who get a visit from the sweet-faced, gray-and-white cat are so ill that they probably don't know he's there, so patients aren't aware he's a predictor of death. Most families are grateful for the advance warning, although one wanted Oscar out of the room while a family member died. When Oscar is put outside, he paces and meows his displeasure.
No one's certain if Oscar's behavior is scientifically significant or points to a cause. Teno wonders if the cat senses mysterious scents or reads something into the behavior of the nurses who raised him. Nursing home staff aren't concerned with explaining Oscar, so long as he gives families a better chance at saying goodbye to the dying. The staff recently gave Oscar a wall sign publicly praising his "sympathetic care."
【小题1】What makes Oscar the cat so special?

Have you ever heard a news reporter talk about DNA? Reporters talk about DNA found at the scene of a crime. They talk about police finding DNA “fingerprints.” Police sometimes use DNA as a clue to find out who committed the crime.
DNA is a substance（物质） that makes up genes. Everything alive has genes. Plans have genes. Animals have genes. You have genes.
Genes are the basic units of heredity（遗传）. Heredity means all the characteristics you inherit from your parents. You get your genes from your parents. You inherit half of your genes from your mother. You inherit half of your genes from your father.
Genes are a kind of code. A tree’s genes tell what shape its leaves will be. A cat’s genes tell what color its fur will be. Your genes tell what color your eyes will be. Your genes tell what color your hair will be. Everything about you comes from the code in your genes.
Genes line up on strands（链） called chromosomes（染色体） in cells. Everything alive is made up of cells. Chromosomes are in the center, or nucleus, of cells.
Different parts of you are made of different kinds of cells. Your muscles are made of muscle celIs. Your skin is made of skin cells. The code in your genes tells your body to make different kinds of cells. The genes in each cell tell the cell how to work. They tell the cell when to make new copies of itself.
An Austrian monk named Gregor Mendel first saw inherited patterns in pea plants. He experimented with pea plants in the 1860s. One of the things, or traits（特质）， Mendel studied was what makes some pea plants tall and some short. He said that the traits must come from units of heredity passed from the parent plants. These units were later called genes.
In the mid-1900s, scientists discovered that genes are made of DNA. In the 1970s, scientists learned how to change DNA with genetic engineering. Scientists also learned that problems with certain genes cause diseases. Muscular dystrophy, cystic fibrosis, and hemophilia are some genetic diseases-diseases caused by problems in genes. Today, scientists are looking for ways to cure genetic diseases by changing genes through a process called gene therapy.
【小题1】 What is DNA?