Question

Does your school have any problems with discipline(纪律)? What happens when students step out of line?

Here are some examples of bad behaviour:

? Playing truant(逃学) (missing school without permission from parents).

? Stealing, smoking, hitting, swearing, running, kissing.

? Cheating on exams.

? Calling a teacher or another pupil a bad name.

? Not doing homework.

? Not listening or not paying attention in lessons.

? Wearing unsuitable clothes.

Here are some of the ways that UK school children can be punished:

? Exclusion（开除）: a pupil is asked to leave the school and not come back. The pupil has to find a new school or a different method of education.

? Suspension（停课）: a pupil cannot enter the building or attend lessons until the school has a meeting about their situation. Suspension can last from one to 45 days. The pupil is usually given work to do at home with a special teacher.

? Detention（拘留）: a pupil is asked to stay after school and work for 30-60 minutes before they can leave.

? Lines: a pupil has to write a sentence many times (e.g. 100 or more) on a sheet of paper, e.g. “I must not shout in class.”

Freya MacDonald, a 15-year-old pupil from Scotland, _________when she refused to accept her school’s punishment. Her family says that she was given 11 detentions for trivial things such as having fizzy drinks in class and coming into school through a fire door.

Freya says that repeated detentions ruined her right to an education under Scottish law and made it difficult for her to learn. So she refused to return until the school respected her civil rights. She wants the headmaster and her teachers to sign a letter to promise this. Hundreds of schools in Scotland were told not to use detention as a punishment because of her legal action.

Many UK schools now give parents a home&school contract（契约，合同）, explaining their discipline and rules. Parents must sign this document to agree that they accept the school’s rules and discipline and that they are responsible for their child’s behaviour.

1.The expression “step out of line” in Paragraph 1 probably means________

A. jump the queue B. break the discipline

C. be later for school D. fight with others.

2.What is the main purpose of the text?

A. To list common bad behavior in UK schools.

B. To show how UK schools deal with students’ parents.

C. To find out why more and more pupils break rules in UK schools.

D. To introduce how UK schools punish students with their discipline.

3.Which expression can be filled in the blank in the passage________.

A. covered the story

B. corrected her behavior

C. showed an interest

D. made the news

4.What is the best title for the passage?

A. Punishments in UK School

B. What is Bad Behavior?

C.UK School Discipline.

D. Too Many School Rules in the UK

 

Answer 1

1.B

2.D

3.D

4.A

【解析】

试题解析：本文大意：在英国学生不好的行为如逃学、作弊、给老师或同学起外号、不做作业等都会受到惩罚，方式有开除、停课、拘留。一个苏格兰15岁的学生成为新闻人物因为她拒绝接受学校的惩罚，她受到11次的拘留，她说一次又一次的拘留侵犯了苏格兰法律赋予她的受教育权，并使她难以学习。在苏格兰上面所学校因为她的法律行为，被告知不要使用拘留做为惩罚手段。

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