A young girl sits at her desk, reviewing her homework for the evening. English: Read three chapters and write a report. Math: Complete 30 problems. Science: Do a worksheet, front and back. French: Study new words for tomorrow’s test. It’s going to be a long night.

This happens to students in America. Now it’s time to start a homework revolution(变革).

According to the National Education Association, a student should be assigned (布置) no more than 10 minutes per grade level per night. For example, a first grader should only have 10 minutes of homework, a second-grader, 20 minutes, and so on. This means that a student in my grade—seventh—should have no more than 70 minutes of work each night. Yet this is often doubled, sometimes even worse!

It’s no good giving students too much homework. According to research, kids are developing more illness at school, such as stomachaches, headaches and sleep problems than before.

Some teachers assign more homework, but they are not the only ones to blame. “Many teachers are under greater pressure than ever before,” says Kylene Beers, President of the National Council for teachers of English, “Some of it comes from parents, some from the wish for high scores on tests.” Teachers who are under pressure feel the need to assign more homework.

Some people have different ideas, saying that homework prepares kids for doing better in high school, better in college, and getting better job in the future. But too much homework is sapping students’ strength, curiosity(削弱学生的个性和好奇心), and most importantly, their love of learning, is that really what teachers and parents want?

阅读短文,完成下列表格,每空一词。

Something about 1.

An 2. girl’s homework for one evening

There are four subjects, including English, Math, Science and French.

Results of too much homework

It can make the kids 3. more illness, such as stomachaches, headaches and sleep problems.

4. for assigning too much homework

The teachers think it’s necessary to assign more homework. The parents wish the kids to get high scores on tests.

Ideas about homework from different people

Advantages: It’s good for the kids to get further study and the better jobs in the future.

Disadvantages: The students are likely to be 5. of strength, curiosity and love of learning.

7.Maybe you can not imagine what a hotel made of trash looks like.But in Rome,Italy,there is a campaign called Save the Beach that has created a hotel out of 12tons of trash in order to raise awareness (意识) of our waste.
Save the Beach is an environmental awareness campaign set up by the makers of Corona Beer.They collected all the trash from all the beaches all across Europe.Then they built the special hotel.
It was reported that the hotel was fully booked (预约).And it was open only for four days there in early June,the same time as World Environment Day.Next to the"trash hotel"was the slogan of Save the Beach.It said,we have built the first hotel made of trash in the world.This will be the future of our holidays if we do nothing to protect our beaches.
The hotel was built just to show the damage we were causing to the sea and the coastline (海岸线).We live in the time of trash and we are running the risk of becoming trash ourselves.Do we really want such a world?
The trash hotel in Rome was just the beginning to support healthy,clean and trash-free beaches all across Europe by Save the Beach.Maybe there will be more surprising ideas in the future.Let's wait and see.

76.Where was the trash hotel built?A
A.In Europe    
B.In Asia      
C.In America      
D.In Africa
77.The trash was from theB
A.Streets       
B.Beaches     
C.Woods         
D.Hotels
78.The hotel was open only for four days in early June becauseD
A.Many people went to the beach in June
B.It was hot in early June
C.The hotel was not clean enough
D.That was the same time as World Environment Day
79.The underlined word"damage"means"C"in Chinese.
A.危险         
B.需要         
C.毁坏            
D.目的
80.Which of the following is TRUE?D
A.No one could live in the trash hotel
B.The trash hotel was the first one in the world
C.The trash hotel was built just for fun
D.The trash hotel will be popular in the future.

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