EDGEWOOD-EVERY morning at Dixie Heights High School, customers pour into a special experiment; the district’s first coffee run mostly by students with special learning needs.

Well before classes start, students and teachers order Lattes Cappuccinos and Hot Chocolates. Then, durning the first period teachers call in orders on their room phones, and students make deliveries.

By closing tome  at 9.20 a.m., the shop usually sells 90 drinks.

“Whoever made the chi tea, Ms. Schatzman says it was good,” Christy McKinley, a second year student, announced recently, after hanging up with the teacher.

The shop is called the Dixie PIT, which stands for Power in Transition. Although some of the students are not disabled, many are, and the PIT helps them prepare for life after high school.

They learn not only how to run a coffee shop but also how to deal with their affairs. They keep a timecard and receive paychecks, which they keep in check registers.

Special-education teachers Kim Chevalier and Sue Casey introduced the Dixie PIT from a similar program at Kennesaw Mountain High School in Georgia.

Not that it was easy. Chevalier’s first problem to overcome was product-related. Should school be selling coffee? What about sugar content?

Kenton County Food Service Director Ginger Gray helped. She made sure all the drinks, which use non fat milk, fell within nutrition(营养) guidelines.

The whole school has joined in to help.

Teachers agreed to give up their lounge(休息室) in the mornings. Art students painted the name of the shop on the wall. Business students designed the paychecks.  The basketball team helped pay for cups.

1.What is the text mainly about?

A. A best selling coffee.

B. A special educational program.

C. Government support for schools.

D. A new type of teacher- student relationship.

2.The Dixie PIT program was introduced in order to _______.

A. raise money for school affairs

B. do some research on nutrition

C. develop students’ practical skills

D. supply teachers with drinks

3.We know from the text that Ginger Gray _______.

A. manages the Dixie PIT program in Kenton Country

B. sees that the drinks meet health standards

C. teaches at Dixie Heights High School

D. owns the school’s coffee shop

Not all bodies of water are so evidently alive as the Atlantic Ocean, an S-shaped body of water covering 33 million square miles. The Atlantic has, in a sense, replaced the Mediterranean as the inland sea of Western civilization. Unlike real inland seas, which seem strangely still, the Atlantic is rich in oceanic liveliness. It is perhaps not surprising that its vitality has been much written about by ancient poets.

“Storm at Sea”, a short poem written around 700, is generally regarded as one of mankind’s earliest artistic representations of the Atlantic.

When the wind is from the west

All the waves that cannot rest

To the east must thunder on

Where the bright tree of the sun

Is rooted in the ocean’s breast.

As the poem suggests, the Atlantic is never dead and dull. It is an ocean that moves, impressively and endlessly. It makes all kinds of noise—it is forever thundering, boiling, crashing, and whistling.

It is easy to imagine the Atlantic trying to draw breath—perhaps not so noticeably out in mid-ocean, but where it meets land, its waters bathing up and down a sandy beach. It mimics(模仿) nearly perfectly the steady breathing of a living creature. It is filled with symbiotic existences, too; unimaginable quantities of creatures, little and large alike, mix within its depths in a kind of oceanic harmony, giving to the waters a feeling of heartbeat, a kind of sub-ocean vitality. And it has a psychology. It has personalities: sometimes peaceful and pleasant, on rare occasions rough and wild; always it is strong and striking.

1.Unlike real inland seas, the Atlantic Ocean is______.

A．always energetic B．lacking in liveliness

C．shaped like a square D．favored by ancient poets

2.What is the purpose of using the poem “Storm at Sea” in the passage?

A．To describe the movement of the waves.

B．To show the strength of the storm.

C．To represent the power of the ocean.

D．To prove the vastness of the sea.

3.What does the underlined word “symbiotic” mean?

A．Living together. B．Growing fast.

C．Moving harmoniously. D．Breathing peacefully.

4.In the last paragraph, the Atlantic is compared to______.

A．a beautiful and poetic place B．a flesh and blood person

C．a wonderful world D．a lovely animal

最近，你们班召开了以“我的中国梦”为主题的班会活动。请写一篇日记，记述班会情况及自己的感受。内容要点如下：

1.每位同学都畅谈了自己对中国梦的理解；

2.你谈到了自己的梦想；

3.如何实现自己的梦想。

注意：

1.总词数不少于120。

2.不可逐条翻译。

3.开头已给出，不计入总词数。

April 8       Monday        Fine

Recently we had a class meeting on the topic of My Chinese Dream....

South Korean rapper PSY’s hit song Gangnam Style made history on December 20 as first-ever video on youtube. com to reach 1 billion views.

A. the; the B. /; the

C. a; a D. /; a

We can never forget the days we worked together and the days we spent together.

A. when; which B. which; when

C. what; that D. on which; when

More than one worker sent to the training center to improve their working skills in the past three years.

A. is B. has been

C. are D. have been

All flights owing to the heavy fog, many passengers could do nothing but take trains.

A. to be cancelled

B. were cancelled

C. have been cancelled

D. having been cancelled

If you stay here longer, you may. But you leave before this weekend.

A. will; must B. can; can

C. may; will D. may; shall

—You seem to be on top of the world.

—Of course. There’s more exciting than seeing your name in print.

A. everything B. nothing

C. anything D. something