Directions:Read the following passage.Complete the diagram by using the information from the passage.
Write ONE WORD for each answer.
A technical secondary school in Nanjing, east China's Jiangsu province, planned to order Korean-style school uniforms for students, but parents opposed the move, believing that the new uniforms looked too good and would encourage early romances among the students, the Jinling Evening Paper reported Monday.
Parents
“My daughter was so excited about the Korean-style uniform, saying it's her dream to wear mini-skirt to school every day,” a mom surnamed Cheng complained.“My daughter also called her classmates to talk about how handsome the boys looked in the uniform!”
Cheng looked on the Internet and found that most Korean schoolboy uniforms are similar to western suits.“They are so handsome!My daughter is a fan of Korean fashion, that's why she is crazy about the uniform!” Cheng said.“If the students wear such beautiful uniforms, how can they study well?I prefer the sports wear which makes me think of health and positive thinking.”
School
“The plan to change the current school uniform from sports wear has been cancelled,” an employee of the school told the Jinling Evening Paper.
“The students dislike the current uniform, so the school took advice from the students last November, knowing that most of students prefer Korean-or Japanese-style school uniforms.We know cities like Shanghai and Guangzhou have changed their sports wear school uniforms to more fashionable uniforms,” an employee surnamed Lin said.
“However, we had to stop the plan because many parents are strongly against it.Some parents think it's just a way for the school to make money, and others think the new uniforms will take students' attention away from their studies,” Lin said.
When asked about the possibility of problems with early romance between students because of the more fashionable uniforms, Lin said he hadn't considered it.He, however, agreed that the Korean-style uniform makes the students more charming.
Students
The students are very disappointed about the school's final decision.They think the sports wear uniforms make them look androgynous(难分性别).
They said the Korean-style uniform has many advantages such as raising interest in class; lifting confidence; improving solidarity and creating good temperaments.
As for concerns about romance, the students believe that love is love and bears no relationship to the uniform.
Education department
“We don't have a unified(统一的)standard for school uniforms.The schools can choose their own styles.Either sports wear or uniforms are ok,” an official from the Nanjing Bureau of Education said.
Directions:Read the following passage.Answer the questions according to the information given in the passage and the required words limit.Write your answers on your answer sheet.
Like fine food, good writing is something we approach with pleasure and enjoy from the first taste to the last.And good writers, good cooks, do not suddenly appear full-blown.Quite the contrary, just as the cook has to undergo an intensive and hard-working training, mastering the skills of his trade, the writer must sit at his desk and devote long hours to achieving a style in his writing, whatever its purpose-schoolwork, matters of business, or purely social communication.You may be sure that the more painstaking the effort, the more effective the writing and the more rewarding.
There are still some remote places in the world where you might find a public scribe(抄写员)to do his/her business or social writing for a fee.There are a few managers who are lucky enough to have the service of that rare kind of secretary who can take care of all sorts of letter writing with no more than a quick note.But for most of us, if there is any writing to be done, we have to do it ourselves.
We have to write school papers, business papers or home papers.We are constantly called on to put words to paper.It would be difficult to count the number of such words, messages, letters, and reports put into the mails or delivered by hand, but the daily figure must be enormous.What is more, everyone who writes expects, or at least hopes, that his writing will be read.We want to arouse and hold the interest of the readers.We want whatever we write to be read, from first word to last, not just thrown into some "letters-to-be-read" file(档案)or into a wastepaper basket.This is the reason we make our efforts toward learning and practicing the skills of interesting, effective writing.
1.What is good writing compared to in this passage and why?(No more than 10 words.)
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2.Find in the passage a word closest in meaning to the underlined word “painstaking”.
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3.According to the passage, why don't some managers have to do any letter writing?(No more than 15 words.)
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4.According to the author, if your letter is thrown into some “ letter-to-be-read” file, what will be likely to happen?(No more than 6 words.)
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5.What is the author's purpose in writing this passage?(No more than 15 words.)
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