If you’ve met and exchanged contact information with your child’s teacher or volunteered to become the class parent, you’re on hour way to becoming an engaged parent—the kind of adult education researchers say, who helps children to be the best they can be in school.
    Now, more than 20 states are about to make your role as an engaged parent a lot more important. Parents whose children attend a failing school can band together. If 51 percent of them sign a petition(请愿书), they can demand, and the district must provide, a new set of administrators to run the school. Parents have become the hottest players in education reform. It’s an encouraging development.
    Over the last 15 years, parents were first invited—and now, in many places, are required ---to participate in choosing what school their children will attend. It’s a great idea, but imperfect and time-consuming. Some wealthy parents register their children in private schools, where the admission process is often much easier and class size is smaller. Many low-income parents are finding better options for their children . But many are not, especially those less good at working the system. However, when researchers studied the school choice process in Harford, they found that schools with the highest levels of parental satisfaction were often ones with the lowest levels of academic achievement and things were the same all over the country.
Giving parents the power may prove to be an important turning point in education reform. We need to supply parents with training programs to help them know, for example, what should be expected from a parent-teacher conference and how to make sure that elementary, middle and high school curriculums are preparing students for college. Otherwise, the next big thing in education--- parent power—is going to hurt our children, instead of helping them.
73．According to the text, engaged parents _____．
       A．urge children to finish homework         B．train children to live independently          
       C．help children do their best at school       D．teach children to mind their manners
74．It can be known from the text that_______.
       A．schools satisfying parents most don’t necessarily produce academically best students
       B．wealthy parents choose private schools just because of their easier admission process
       C．parents have been the hottest players in education reform in the past 15 years
       D．low-income parents generally make wrong decisions on school choosing
75．Which of the following might be the best title for the text?
       A．Choosing schools for children              B．Calling for school reform
       C．Preparing children for college           D．Putting parents in charge 

How to Stay Motivated in High School

Do you find it difficult, almost impossible to stay motivated about high school? There are so many demands on your time, along with the expectation of parents and teachers. You really want to look at all the “big picture”. Your time in high school is likely to be just a small part of your whole life.    1.  

Set realistic goals and rewards. It can be as simple as doing your work and then taking a break to do something you like.    2.   It isn’t as though you have to do all of your work at one time. In other words, when you reach a good break point, give yourself some kind of reward such as doing something you enjoy and afterwards get back to work.

  3.  Consider your own parents, teacher, neighbor, or relative—anyone you respect and trust that can be in your corner to root for you and cheer you on. You want someone who has some life experience to counsel you. If you can find more than one source of such wisdom, it is all the better. Don’t ignore this suggestion. It can really save you a lot of heartbreak and suffering later on.

Have supportive friends. There are people who are going nowhere fast.    4.   Instead, stay around other motivated students who enjoy school, study and work hard because they are so positive. That positive influence will help motivate you.

Work with yourself not against. We all have energy levels.    5.  If your levels are low, determine what raises your energy levels to get you going. Then get as much done as you can. Also, don’t wait until later to get started doing things like your homework. One student explained that he would start work at the end of the class. Then when he got home, he was finishing the work rather than just starting the work.

A．Then get back to work.

B．Don’t hang out with them.

C．Seek the wisdom of an elder.

D．Try to go with the flow of your levels.

E. But it can be the most meaningful years.

F. Study hard, have fun and enjoy each year.

G. Find classmates with whom you can share your concerns.

Knowing the best way to study will help you to be a better student. By using your time properly, you can do your homework more quickly. Learning to study is not difficult.

The first thing to remember is that you must be willing to learn. It doesn’t mean that you must always like the subject. It does mean, however, that you must be wil1ing to do whatever is necessary to learn. Try to understand why it is important and how it will help you now and later to do and learn other things. Knowing mathematics facts will be useful in your whole life. Knowing how to spell makes any kind of writing easier. Sometimes the subject that you think is going to be uninteresting will be exciting when you begin to work at it and understand it more clearly. Learning things can be fun if you are willing to work with them.

Here’s some advice for you: have a certain time each day and a quiet place with good lighting for study, so that you can concentrate on your study without interruptions(中断); have everything ready before you sit down to study, a dictionary, paper, a pen and books; be sure you understand what you should learn before you start; read carefully and pay special attention to the most important things; when memorizing, first find out the main parts and then recite the whole thing; check your homework after you finish it; never forget the importance of review and preview.

    Don’t try to spend a lot of time researching learning methods. There are many students who know many good learning methods but don’t study well. They forget that no one can study well unless he studies hard.

1.The main goal of the article is                .

A.to prove that learning is not difficult

B.to make the readers be interested in study

C.to tell the importance of self teaching

D.to tell the students how to study well

2.The first thing to remember in studying is that                .

A.you must like the subject

B.you must follow the teacher

C.you must enjoy learning

D.you must spend much time researching learning methods

3.We learn things because                .

A.we may use these things in the future

B.we like the subjects

C.our parents want us to learn them

 D.every student learns them at school

4.The following advice is given in the article EXCEPT                .

A.To put a pen, paper and books beside you before study.

B.To study at any possible time and place.

C.To review and preview

D.To pay attention to the most important things before you start to study

5.Among the following statements, which of the following is true?

A.The more learning methods we have, the better we will study.

B.Finding the best learning method is the most important in learning.

C.If you don’t work hard, though you have a good learning method, you can’t be good at study.

D.Once we have mastered a good learning method, we can improve our study greatly.