Young people are often unhappy when they are with their parents. They say that their parents don’t understand them. They often think their parents are too strict  41  them.

Parents often find  42 difficult to win their children’s trust and they seem to  43 how they themselves felt when they were young.

For example, young people like to do things without much  44 . It’s one of their ways to show that they grow up and they can  45 any difficult problems. Older people worry more easily. Most of them plan things ahead and don’t like their plans to be changed. So when you want your parents to let you do  46 , you will have better success if you ask  before you really start doing it.

Young people often make their parents angry by clothes they wear, the music they enjoy and something  47 . But they don’t mean to cause any trouble. They just feel that  48 this way they can be cut off from the old people’s world and they want to make a new culture of their own. And if their parents don’t like their music or clothes or their way of speech, the young people feel very sad. Sometimes instead of going out with their parents, they just want to stay at home  49 and do what they like.

If you plan to do something, you’d better win your parents over and get them to understand you. 50 , your parents will certainly let you do what you want to do.

This is my school. There are many trees and flowers in it. It’s very beautiful. The teaching building is big and tall. There is a big playground in our school. After 4:30 in the afternoon, many students come to the playground to play football and some students play table tennis in the table tennis room. There are 1,200 students and 25 classes in our school. The students all like to study. The teachers in our school are very good. They help the students to study and the students like them, too.

1.The school looks _____.

2.The school is beautiful because of (因为) ________ in it.

3.There are at least (至少) _____ students in one class.

4.After class the students often go to _____.

5.Do the students like to study?

A new term has begun. Teachers are __36__ about the fact that new students are not easy to handle. They like to bring cellphones and MP3 players to school. What is __37__, some students even use cellphones to do with out-of-class matters in class, or sometimes just for fun. Some other students listen to MP3 players when they are having a lesson that they are not interested in.

Are these new students really that __38__? ‘Yes,’ says Delaney Kirk, a professor at Drake University. __39__ she adds it’s not their fault. Instead, the things that they bring into school --- cellphones, MP3 players and so on --- and the teachers are to blame. Kirk first began thinking about students’ manners six years ago. ‘I had my first class in which students were sleeping or talking to each other. It seemed that learning well __40__ nothing to do with them,’ she says. ‘At first, I got worried about this, but then I said to myself, “You’re teaching __41__, and you need to manage this … These students need to know more about manners. It’s time to help them develop some good __42__. They shouldn’t waste time doing nothing when they are young. Sooner or later, they might regret the time they have wasted.”’

Kirk also __43__ a list of suggestions to help teachers better manage their classes. The following are among her suggestions:

l     Tell students how they will benefit by taking the class. On the first day of class, emphasize its importance __44__ giving some homework that students must turn in next time.

l     Do not allow them to bring cellphones and MP3 players to the class at all.

l     Decide __45__ formal and informal the class will be.

Many young people want to be pop stars. Pop stars are rich. Many people think they are leading a happy and easy life. In fact, they have very hard lives. They spend much of their time on travel. Sometimes the travel is interesting, but in most time it is boring to pop stars. The following chart is a day’s life of a pop star.

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1.According to the chart, the pop star was a ________________.

2.According to his plan, his plane should have taken off at ________________.

3.From this passage, we get to know that ________.