Short Skirts Are Out!

After decades of skimpy skirts and sleeveless tops on game days, some schools in the US are saying cheerleader uniforms will have to meet stricter dress codes when they are worn in class.

In Lake County, Florida, cheerleaders with uniforms too skimpy for the code are being asked to wear long shorts or trousers under their skirts and a T-shirt under the sleeveless tops, according to a district memo. Principals at two of Lake’s eight high schools – Leesburg and Lake Minneola – are not allowing the outfits in school at all.

Michelle Thomas, a cheerleader at Leesburg High School, was disappointed when she learned she couldn’t wear her outfit to school on game days.

“It shows that we’re a team just like all the other sports,” she said.

But the school administrators did not agree. “During the educational portion of the day, they have to meet the dress code just like every other student,” said school board chairwoman Debbie Stivender, who ordered the staff to bring the outfits into line with the dress code.

Bare midriffs are banned across the state by the Florida High School Athletic Association, but no state rules mention cheerleader miniskirts. Sheila Noone, a spokeswoman for cheerleading uniform company Varsity Brands, says the outfits haven’t become more revealing over the last 10 years. She says that the short skirts are designed to help the girls jump and kick.

“Cheerleading is athletic,” Noone said. “There’s a lot of jumping, so you won’t want a knee-length skirt that might hamper a tie touch.”

Most cheerleaders were sad to hear the news, but say they’ll follow the rules. Even male cheerleaders, whose pants and tops meet dress codes, chose not to wear their outfits to show unity.

“I understanding, because they are kind of short,” said Holly Bishop, 14, a Lake Minneola High School cheerleader, about her miniskirt. “It would have been really, really cool to wear them to school.”

1.According to the new dress codes for cheerleaders in some American schools, __________.

2.Which of the following statement is TRUE according to the article?

3.Some cheerleaders are not happy about the news because __________.

The US government has started a website, Admongo, to help children think critically about the advertising aimed at them. It claims to provide visitors with an “aducation” through games and other entertainment.

A cartoon man dressed in old time pilot clothing greets visitors to Admongo. "Call me Haiz", he says upon arrival in a rocket ship that opens up with a crazy world inside it. Spacey dance music plays in the background as Haiz tells visitors that they need to learn about advertising.

Its inventors say eight to twelve years old is the age kids develop their critical thinking abilities. Kids that age are also a big market for advertisers.

The idea behind Admongo is to teach children three things: To identify the advertiser. To know what the advertiser is really saying. And to know what the advertisement is trying to get the child to do.

Children learn these things through a video game. They create their own game character. They can choose different skin colors, hair styles, eye and mouth shapes. Then they begin a trip through ad-land, where there are ads on buses and billboards. The players have to find all the marketing in the neighborhood before they can move on to the next level.

The Admongo game takes players inside a home, to the advertising studio and everywhere else ads can be found. It is a complete exploration of the world of marketing.

One such area is food marketing. The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) says it is a big business. The FTC estimates that food, drink and fast-food restaurants spent more than one and a half billion dollars on advertising to young people in 2009.

The FTC says children are important for three reasons. They buy products. They influence parents and caregivers to buy. And they are the future adult buyers of the products.

A recent study says most advertising aimed at children is for foods of the lowest nutritional value. First Lady Michelle Obama has said she would like to see advertisers marketing healthy foods for children.

1.What is the best title of the text?

2.Why did the government start the website?

3.What can players do in the website game?

4.Children are important for advertising because they are __________.

阅读下面短文，根据所读内容在表格中的空白处填入恰当的单词。注意：每个空格只填一个单词，并请将答案写在答题纸上。

The family sphere (范围) used to be defined by its isolation from the public realm. There was the public male realm (领域) of "rational accomplishment" and cruel competition, and the private female and child-rearing sphere of home, intuition (直觉) and emotion. The private realm was supposed to be isolated from the realities of adult life. For both better and worse, television and other electronic media tend to break down the difference between those two worlds. The membrane around the family sphere is much more permeable (可渗透的). TV takes public events and transforms them into dramas that are played out in the privacy of our living rooms, kitchens and bedrooms.

Parents used to be the channel through which children learned about the outside world. They could decide what to tell their children and when to tell it to them. Since children learn to read in stages, books provide a kind of natural screening process, where adults can decide what to tell and not tell children of different reading abilities. Television destroyed the system that separated adult from child knowledge and separated information into year-by-year slices for children of different ages. Instead, it presents the same information directly to children of all ages, without going through adult filters.

So television presents a real challenge to adults. While a parent can read a newspaper without sharing it with children in the same room, television is accessible to everyone in that space. And unlike books, television doesn't allow us to flip (翻转) through it and see what's coming up. We may think we're giving our children a lesson in science by having them watch the Challenger take off, and then suddenly they learn about death, disaster and adult mistakes.

Books allow adults to discuss privately what to tell or not tell children. This also allows parents to keep adult material secret from children and keep their secret keeping secret. Take that same material and put it on The Today Show and you have 800,000 children hearing the very things the adults are trying to keep from them. "Television takes our kids across the globe before parents give them permission to cross the street." 

More importantly, children gradually learn that adults are worried and anxious about being parents. Actually, television has also places families under a lot of stress.

How Television Changes Childhood?

根据括号里的中文提示用单词的适当形式填空。（每空0.5分，共5分）

1. Animals become __________ (漠不关心的) to their young as soon as their young can look after themselves, but human beings find this difficult.

2. We should __________ (谴责) any attempts to break into company networks to obtain users’ information

3. The __________ (执行的) director of board assumes the responsibility of managing financial, productive and marketing affairs.

4. Our __________ (可持续的) levels of happiness are up to our life circumstances and our everyday activities.

5. Students from all over the world take a major step along their life's journey when they __________ (参与) in an advanced education.

6.Care must be taken that each task ends with a sensible state, because there is no __________ (保证) when the next step will be carried out.

7. In this book, Adam Smith's emphasis that the ________ (无形的) hand usually leads markets to allocate resources efficiently.

8. If you have a keen __________ (欣赏) for good art, you may have a strong interest in cultural activities or entertainment.

9. Getting the best out of digital __________ (广播电视) will probably mean replacing, or at least repositioning, the indoor or rooftop aerial.

10. The eruption of volcano __________ (伴随) by an earthquake caused great damage to the living things around.

假定你是中学生梨花。在一位名叫Tiger Tom的学生家长的博客上，你看到如下内容。请你根据博客内容、写作要点和写作要求，给这位家长回复。

I’m the mother of a fourteen-year-old. I have a rule for my daughter: be among the top 5 students or get punished in one way or another. She has been doing very well in school, but some friends of mine keep telling me that I put too much pressure on her. Am I wrong?

写作要点：

1. 表明自己的看法；2. 陈述自己的理由（可以举例说明）；3. 提出至少两条建议。

写作要求：

1. 短文次数不少于150（不含已经写好的部分）；

2. 内容充实，结构完整，语意连贯；

3. 书写必须干净、清晰、工整。

Hi, Tiger Mom,

What puzzles you is actually a puzzle for many parents in China. My idea is _______

_________________________________________________________________________

_________________________________________________________________________

She dreams of becoming ____pianist, so she makes ____most of her time to play the piano.

  A. a; the           B. the; /             C. a; /               D. /; the

Look! The dictionary , _____is red , is a birthday gift given by Father.

A. which cover              B. the cover of which  

C. the whose cover           D. that the cove

–Did you ask the guard what happened?

--Yes, he told me all ______ he knew.

   A. about which      B. which              C. that            D. what

Bamboo grows best in the place _____ it is warm and rains often.

A. which           B. where              C. that            D. as

—You were brave enough to raise objections at the meeting.

--Well , now I regret ____that.

   A. to do            B. to be doing          C. to have done     D. having done