题目内容
In American schools there is something called the Home-coming Day. Many high schools and colleges with a football team have a home-coming game. This can be the most important event(事件)of the year. Students plan the Home-coming Day for many weeks.
A few days before Home-coming Day, students start to decorate the school. There are signs to wish luck to the team, and many other signs to welcome all the graduates. Many people still come to Home-coming twenty or thirty years after their graduation(毕业).
The members of school clubs build booths(摊位)and sell lemonade, apples and sandwiches. Some clubs help to welcome visitors.
During the day people like to look for teachers that they remember from long ago. Often they see old friends and they talk together about those happy years in school.
Everyone soon comes to watch the football game. When the game is half over, the band(乐队)comes onto the field and plays school songs. Another important moment is the moment when the Home-coming Queen or King appears. All the students choose a most popular student the Home-coming Queen or King. It is a great honour(荣幸)to be chosen.
The Home-coming Day is a happy day. Even if the team loses, the students still enjoy it. Some stay at the school to dance, and others go to a party. For everyone, it is a day they will always remember.
1.The most important event of the year in high schools and colleges is_______.
A. the Home-coming Day
B. the football game
C. the graduation day
D. winning the game
2. Which of the following in NOT talked about on the Home-coming Day?
A. Seeing old friends.
B. Visiting teachers they remember.
C. Watching the football game.
D. Going home to see their family.
3.Who can become the Home-coming Queen or King?
A. The teachers who are kind to the students.
B. The students who are popular with the students.
C. The visitors who once studied in the school.
D. The players who play best in the football team.
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Most of us have never thought about building an educational toy by ourselves. If we need a learning toy or something, we simply go to the nearest store and buy it. However, things are not as easy in third world countries. With families even having no food to put on the table, buying toys, especially the educational ones, is the last thing on the parents’ minds.
So how can one get these kids interested in science? This was a question that worried the Indian engineer Arvind Gupta so much that he decided to give up a good job and spend his life making toys from things that people no longer want or need!
Mr. Gupta began teaching in the 1970s. While still an engineering student at the Indian College of Technology, he volunteered to teach the children who could not afford to go to school. Upon graduation, he found a good job at India’s Tata Motors and spent the next five years designing cars.
But he soon realized that this was not something he wanted to do for the rest of his life. So he took a year’s training course and took part in the Hoshangabad Science Teaching Program whose aim was to make science fun and exciting for poor children using available materials.
Mr. Gupta found the whole project so satisfying that he decided to leave his high-paying job and focus his attention on designing educational toys that were not only cheap and easy to build, but are also full of scientific principles(科学原理), so that children could get interested in this interesting subject.
When the Internet started becoming a more widespread learning tool, Mr. Gupta created a Toys from Trash website and also recorded over 250 YouTube videos.
Today, over 50,000 children and teachers visit the website daily to download the videos for the toy creations based on cool science. Some young children have become so inspired (鼓舞)that they have even won international science competitions with the help of his creations.
Making educational toys from rubbish
Reasons | ●Most people never thought about building educational toys. ●Usually people go to the nearest store to buy educational toys in 1. ●To some families, food is more 2. than educational toys. ●We should help children to get interested in science. |
About Mr. Gupta | ●Finding a good job and spending five years designing cars after 3. college ●Deciding to give up a good job and spending his life making special toys ● 4. to teach the children from poor families ●Taking a year’s training course to learn to make science fun and exciting for poor children ●Focusing his attention on designing educational toys |
About the website | ●A Toys from Trash is a website with over 250 YouTube videos ●Many children visit the website and they are 5. with the videos for the toy creations based on cool science ●With the help of his creations, children have even won international science competitions |