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The summer vacation means long days, sleeping in or enjoying the summer sun. It is quite true for students to enjoy a rest after a long and difficult year. But more and more parents fear their kids forgetting a lot of knowledge, so they send their children to summer schools. Because summer schools can help children go over the knowledge that they have learnt during the school year.

In summer schools, students probably study in a more relaxing situation and can come up with interesting topics for discussion with their teachers. Usually, the number of students attending summer schools is smaller, so this gives them a good chance to connect with other students and teachers better. If a student has failed a course, summer schools may help him or her. Moreover, they are building their creativity (创造力) and imagination (想象力) as well as learning social skills.

On the other hand, summer schools bring children problems at the same time. It takes children the whole summer vacation to learn without playing. That is too long. As a result, it may make them less interested in school during the coming year.

For many students, taking summer classes can be a tiring experience. Teachers teach the subjects too quickly, which only harms the whole education of students. Summer schools are usually expensive. They usually offer only a few subjects. So many students have to take classes that they don’t like.

A summer school can be a good chance for students who need it, but it can be difficult for students who need a rest. So you can decide whether a summer school is suitable for your children.

1.Summer schools help children ________ a lot of knowledge that they have got.

2.With the small number of students, summer schools give students a good chance to ________ other students and teachers.

3.Summer schools may make students ________ in school during the coming year.

4.Summer schools help students build their creativity and imagination and ________.

5.You can decide _________ to send your children to summer schools or not.

Choose the best answer. (根据短文内容选择最恰当的答案)

A blind boy sat on the steps of a building with a hat by his feet. He held up a sign which said: “I am blind, please help.” There were only a few coins in the hat.

A man was walking by. He took a few coins from his pocket and put them into the hat. He then took the sign, turned it around, and wrote some words. He put the sign back so that everyone who walked by would see the new words.

Soon the hat began to be full of coins. A lot more people were giving money to the blind boy. That afternoon the man who had changed the sign came to see how things were. The boy recognized(辨认出) his footsteps and asked, “Were you the one who changed my sign this morning? What did you write?”

The man said, “I only wrote the truth. I said what you said but in a different way.”

What he had written was: “Today is a beautiful day but I cannot see it.”

Do you think the first sign and the second sign were saying the same thing?

Of course both signs told people the boy was blind. But the first one simply told people to help by putting some money in the hat. However, the second one told people that they were able to enjoy the day. It told them they were lucky and they were not blind.

There are at least two lessons we can learn from this simple story.

The first is: Be thankful for what you have. Someone else has less. Help whenever you can.

The second is: Think differently. There is always a better way!

1.The blind boy _________ on the steps of a building.

A.sold his old hat B.asked for money

C.was busy collecting coins D.showed his good handwriting

2.The blind boy recognized the man by his _________.

A.footsteps B.voice

C.words D.figure

3.The underlined word “it” in Paragraph 5 refers to _________.

A.the words on the sign B.the money in the hat

C.the step of a building D.the beautiful day

4.The man who helped the blind boy must be _________.

A.polite and patient B.honest and funny

C.kind and clever D.careful and rich

5.The best title for the passage should be _________.

A.A man who helped a boy B.A blind boy in the street

C.Let’s help the blind people D.power of different words

综合填空

To help students tell the difference between fact and fiction, a course titled w 1. a Chinese phrase(短语) meaning “obviously right, but actually wrong” has launched in Fudan University in Shanghai this school year.

The course brings disciplines(训练) together, and has a t2.of 17 subjects to be discussed. These topics are centered on m3. of differentiating(区分) science from pseudoscientific(伪科学) beliefs, such as how strong the risk of vaccination(接种疫苗) is and how genes define(定义,影响) destiny.

It has attracted much attention, and been welcomed by students there and across China. Over 1,000 students have c4.the course, and the topic on Weibo has won tens of thousands of thumbs-up among users in a gesture(手势) of s5..

For instance, it’s said that the death toll in famous hospitals is larger than that in a community hospital. Does it necessarily mean we o6. to see a doctor in a community hospital?

Lou Hongwei, the professor of the course, said the data(数据) people collected was just partial(部分的), and doesn’t show the w7. picture----famous hospitals deal with more fatal(致命的) conditions, so more deaths can be expected there. Such fallacies(谬误) in logic s8.widely among people, which are untenable(站不住脚的) but hard to resist.

Last July, the University of Washington debuted a similar course to help its students draw the line between science and pseudoscience via big data.

Lou believes it is necessary to teach such courses, a9.there are many highly-educated people, including experts and scholars, who harbor(为提供庇护) misconceptions(错误想法) and lack necessary judgment. This, he said, will have a negative(消极的) i10.on the next generation.

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