Tim Wasem, an English teacher, says he's still getting his head around it. "I have students coming in this semester who are asking, like, 'When are we gonna do the podcast （播客）challenge? When's that gonna happen?' I didn't know the answers."
That's because a year ago, an unlikely team of 11th-graders at Elizabethton High School in east Tennessee won NPR's first-ever Student Podcast Challenge. Their 11-minute entry told the story of how the nearby town of Erwin is trying to rehabilitate （挽回）its image a century after hanging an elephant. They called their podcast"Murderous Mary & The RISE Of Erwin."
As the Student Podcast Challenge opens this month for its second year and as our new podcast about the contest launches on Monday, we've checked back in with last year's two grand-prize winners to see how the experience changed their learning and their lives.
Deanna Hull was a driving force behind "Murderous Mary". She says the experience gave a big lift to her "internal confidence as a student and just as a person in general”. Now a senior, Hull is making college plans, and she says winning the contest helped her see what she's truly capable of. "I'm typically very self-critical of my work. I can't really see what everyone else sees... But then when we found out we'd won, I was like, 'Whoa, OK. Hull admits that she and her classmates took a few weeks to find their footing. Wasem and a fellow teacher Alex Campbell assigned the teams themselves, often avoiding friend groups and forcing unlikely cooperation.
And Hull says that while she was proud of the finished project, she never imagined it could win. The podcast project not only helped Hull and her team but also changed the lives of some of their classmates who didn't win. "The most amazing thing that came from the podcast experience of that class is how many of them found their passion through this project," Campbell says, "and how this project helped them connect to people and learn how to tell someone else's story."
1.How did Tim Wasem feel about his students' questions?
A.He felt tired of them.
B.He was surprised at them.
C.He lacked confidence in them.
D.He had no idea of their answers.
2.What can we learn about "Murderous Mary & The RISE Of Erwin”？
A.It lost a chance to win last year.
B.It tells people elephants are friendly.
C.Its winning was beyond its makers' expectation.
D.It is about the history of the makers' hometown.
3.What did Deanna Hull mainly get from the winning?
A.Self-confidence.
B.Her passion for science.
C.Admission into a college.
D.A good knowledge of her disadvantages.
4.What can be the best title for the text?
A.Making a Podcast Enriched Students' Lives
B.What Can Make the Podcast Sound Better?
C.A Successful Way to the College： Podcast Challenge
D.More Problems to be Solved About Podcast Challenge
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Tim Wasem, an English teacher, says he's still getting his head around it. "I have students coming in this semester who are asking, like, 'When are we gonna do the podcast （播客）challenge? When's that gonna happen?' I didn't know the answers."
That's because a year ago, an unlikely team of 11th-graders at Elizabethton High School in east Tennessee won NPR's first-ever Student Podcast Challenge. Their 11-minute entry told the story of how the nearby town of Erwin is trying to rehabilitate （挽回）its image a century after hanging an elephant. They called their podcast"Murderous Mary & The RISE Of Erwin."
As the Student Podcast Challenge opens this month for its second year and as our new podcast about the contest launches on Monday, we've checked back in with last year's two grand-prize winners to see how the experience changed their learning and their lives.
Deanna Hull was a driving force behind "Murderous Mary". She says the experience gave a big lift to her "internal confidence as a student and just as a person in general”. Now a senior, Hull is making college plans, and she says winning the contest helped her see what she's truly capable of. "I'm typically very self-critical of my work. I can't really see what everyone else sees... But then when we found out we'd won, I was like, 'Whoa, OK. Hull admits that she and her classmates took a few weeks to find their footing. Wasem and a fellow teacher Alex Campbell assigned the teams themselves, often avoiding friend groups and forcing unlikely cooperation.
And Hull says that while she was proud of the finished project, she never imagined it could win. The podcast project not only helped Hull and her team but also changed the lives of some of their classmates who didn't win. "The most amazing thing that came from the podcast experience of that class is how many of them found their passion through this project," Campbell says, "and how this project helped them connect to people and learn how to tell someone else's story."
1.How did Tim Wasem feel about his students' questions?
A.He felt tired of them.
B.He was surprised at them.
C.He lacked confidence in them.
D.He had no idea of their answers.
2.What can we learn about "Murderous Mary & The RISE Of Erwin”？
A.It lost a chance to win last year.
B.It tells people elephants are friendly.
C.Its winning was beyond its makers' expectation.
D.It is about the history of the makers' hometown.
3.What did Deanna Hull mainly get from the winning?
A.Self-confidence.
B.Her passion for science.
C.Admission into a college.
D.A good knowledge of her disadvantages.
4.What can be the best title for the text?
A.Making a Podcast Enriched Students' Lives
B.What Can Make the Podcast Sound Better?
C.A Successful Way to the College： Podcast Challenge
D.More Problems to be Solved About Podcast Challenge
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—What has made him look like lacking sleep?
—_______ his wife is ill and he has to get up several times a night to attend to her.
A．For B. Because C．That D．What
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There he was,standing still where I had left him and opening his mouth as if some-thing.
A.to say B.saying
C.to be saying D.having said
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____ I say Clancy is a smart boy, he still needs to work hard to achieve his goal．
A． Then B． When C． While D． As
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_____ I say Clancy is a smart boy, he still needs to work hard to achieve his goal.
A. Then B. When C. While D. As
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________ I say Clancy is a smart boy, he still needs to work hard to achieve his goal.
A.If B.When C.As D.While
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He spoke very slowly, but he still didn’t get his meaning _______.
A across B cross C through D though
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28 He spoke very slowly, but he still didn’t get his meaning _______.
A across B cross C through D though
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If he____ his teacher’s suggestion, he would have won the English Speech Contest.
A. had followed B. should follow
C. was to follow D. followed
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Luis Reynoso says he’s always tried to get involved (牵涉) in his children’s education: attending meetings on school-improvement projects and providing classroom food. But when his youngest daughter’s school invited families to attend a nine-week program Let’s Change the Course organized by a leading education advocacy group here to learn about parenting and school participation, he realized his past efforts barely scratched the surface.
Each weekly session touched on different parenting themes, like setting up a special space at home for kids to do homework, like the importance of confidence. One of the most helpful sessions, he recalls, focused on what a child should know academically in each grade and how to talk to teachers about his daughter’s performance. “The workshops really woke me up,”says Mr. Reynoso.
Levels of parental participation in Mexican schools have long been low. Many people commonly believe a child's education is the school s job to get involved. In some parts of the country, a mother's or father's own lack of education can play into a sense that they have nothing to contribute. And even in private schools, where there might be more adults with fixed jobs and the participation is very rare, with some parents viewing their tuition (学费) bill as their educational contribution. There are also cases where the schools themselves ignore the potential of parents in a child's education, discouraging communication between families and schools.
But the importance of family participation is something many non-profit, education advocates and recently the government are starting to home in on Mexico. Part of Mexico’s 2013 national education reform stresses the importance of parents playing a more active role in their child’s education, encouraging an increase in parental-participation programs, including Let’s Change the Course.
Susana Castellanos, headmaster of a school in Mexico City, says, “People are recognizing you have to work together to create happy successful citizens. It’s no longer acceptable to set apart the roles of teacher vs. parent vs. school headmaster.”
1.What does Reynoso mean by the underlined sentence in Paragraph 1?
A.His previous efforts were in vain.
B.He missed the key point of participation.
C.His daughter disagreed with what he did.
D.He failed to catch the importance of school.
2.What did Reynoso find most beneficial about Let’s Change the Course?
A.The necessity to set up a space for kids to do homework.
B.The academic requirements for kids in different periods.
C.The importance of knowing children’s performance.
D.The ways to increase students’ confidence.
3.What is the main idea of Paragraph 3?
A.How to contribute more to children’s education.
B.How to know the levels of parental participation in Mexican schools.
C.Why schools failed to provide chances for parents to get involved,
D.Why parents played a less active role in school education in Mexico.
4.What influence did Mexico’s education reform have?
A.The number of parental-participation programs rose.
B.Many non-profit educational organizations were set up.
C.Teachers role in school education started to get increased.
D.Parents began to attach importance to children's education.
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