Teens and their teachers know well that early...

Teens and their teachers know well that early-morning classes can be tiring. Doctors now have a solution: for better teen health, push the sleep button on school start times. Janet Croft, who studies teens and sleep at the Centers for Disease Control and

Prevention(CDC)in Atlanta high schools, says, “Most teens are actually brain dead when they go to these early classes. Too many students start their day as walking zombies(僵尸).”

One report stresses the importance of sleep for teens and describes the dangers from not getting enough sleep. Studies in the past have shown over and over that teens lacking sleep face higher risks of being overweight and being frustrated.

Many teens get too little sleep because they attend middle and high schools that start earlier than 8:30 am. According to the American Academy of Pediatrics(AAP),those early start times throw off a student’s internal body rhythm, called the circadian clock(生物钟).Too little sleep disturbs that clock and causes problems.

The study conducted by the National Sleep Foundation found that nearly 6 in every 10 middle school students and 9 in 10 high school students are sleeping too little. Yet many parents aren’t aware of this. In the same study,7 of every 10 parents said they believed their kids did sleep enough. That study shows too many parents are unaware of the science on teen-sleep needs, says Owens.

Kyla Wahlstrom, a former teacher, who has spent a lot of time with teens lacking sleep, says: “An incredible number of students are either sleeping at their desks or sitting there like a lump, not asking questions or raising their hands.”

Getting enough sleep can help a teen on the inside, too. Several studies have shown that children and teenagers who don’t sleep enough are more likely to become obese, or extremely overweight. Teens lacking sleep also are more likely to suffer from anxiety, depression and mood disorders. It’s time to recognize how important sleep is, particularly to teenagers.

1.What does the author want to stress by mentioning “walking zombies” in Paragraph 2?

A.The students’ brain health is worrying.

B.The students are fond of computer games.

C.The students are so used to staying up very late.

D.The students are in a bad state of learning in early classes.

2.According to AAP in Paragraph 4, early school schedules affect teens by

A.increasing their course load

B.affecting their circadian clock

C.affecting their performance at school

D.disturbing their relationships with classmates

3.What can be inferred from the last paragraph?

A.The number of teens lacking sleep is growing fast.

B.Physical and mental health are equally important to teens.

C.It is really necessary to adjust school start times in the morning.

D.Teachers should take measures to raise students’ interest in learning.

4.What’s the main idea of the text?

A.Parents are unaware of their kids’ sleep condition.

B.Being overweight is very common among American teens.

C.Early school start times can turn teens into the walking dead.

D.Researchers have found out how sleep is related to teens’ study.

高一英语阅读选择中等难度题查看答案及解析

As a teacher we all have those memories of students—we wonder if we were able to teach or reach those students who had a need to get out of their seats every five minutes or so.

I recently received an e-mail from one such student, Paco. Paco’s e-mail brought back memories of one particular (特别) class.

In our high school’s first year, our classes were 80 minutes long instead of the traditional 40 minutes. On this particular day, I was being observed by two college professors. Of course, I was proud of the fact that the class was conducted entirely in Spanish and the students felt comfortable expressing themselves in Spanish.

On that day, Paco came running through the door with a toasted cheese sandwich in hand, saying “Senora Mike. I’m hungry and I hope you don’t mind if I just quickly eat this great toasted cheese sandwich.” I said, “Go ahead, Paco.” Paco sat down and finished his sandwich. Paco had now noticed our two visitors. Of course, our two visitors noticed Paco the minute he ran through the door.

The lesson was going along quite well, and all the students were working in their groups. Suddenly, Paco raised his hand and said, “Senora, esta lloviendo en mis pantalones.” (“Mrs. Mike, it is raining in my trousers.”) Now, being Paco’s Spanish teacher, I understood what he wanted. I knew that it was his way of requesting to go to the bathroom. You could just imagine the laughter from the other students.

I always wonder just how much Spanish Paco learned in that class, but I know he learned more than just Spanish based on an e-mail he recently wrote to me:

I know I didn’t behave myself but you actually cared. You knew I had potential (潜力). So even though I messed up a lot, you never gave up... I’m deeply thankful to you for everything you taught me about Spanish. My attitude and life will stick with me the rest of my day...

You see, Paco was my student ten years ago.

1.What can be inferred about Paco?

A.He did well in his lessons. B.He didn’t behave well enough.

C.He didn’t see the two professors. D.He showed no respect for his teacher.

2.Why did Paco raise his hand in class?

A.To have his classmates laugh. B.To give a suggestion.

C.To answer a question. D.To make a request.

3.Why did Paco write an e-mail to the author?

A.To express his thanks. B.To ask for help.

C.To make an apology. D.To tell him his success.

4.What does the author intend to tell us by writing the text?

A.How to teach a successful lesson. B.How to get on well with students.

C.A teacher’s influence on students. D.Students’ attitude to their teachers.

高一英语阅读选择中等难度题查看答案及解析

Are your children liked by their teachers? All parents want their children to impress their teachers and succeed in school. You can get your children to impress their teachers by following these easy steps.

Make sure they’re prepared. Teachers are impressed by children coming to school prepared to learn. Make sure they have everything they need—pencils, textbooks, erasers and so on.

Require them to be active in class. Teach them to ask teachers questions when they don’t understand something, some children think teachers are bothered by questions, but most teachers are impressed when children take the initiative(采取主动) in asking questions. They should take part in class discussions, giving their opinions politely.

Keep your children healthy. If your children are tired and hungry, they won’t be ready to learn. Children need at least 8 to 10 hours of sleep per night. Feed your children a solid breakfast and prepare a healthy lunch. Provide them with fruit and other healthy foods—apples or bananas are better for them than cookies.

Make sure that your children do their homework. If they really don’t understand it , discuss it with them patiently. Don’t help them do their homework. Teachers can always tell who it is that does the work.

Teach your children good manners and habits. Children need to arrive at the school punctually, and be polite to their teachers and classmates. Parents need to teach these skills at home. Nothing is sweeter than children who say”please” and “thank you”, and these are children their teachers are certain to love.

1.The first paragraph serves as 　　　　　 .

A.an explanation B.an introduction

C.a background D.an example

2.What should parents do according to the passage?

A.They should ask their children’s teachers questions at times.

B.They should prepare their children cookies as well as fruits.

C.They have to require their children to get materials for learning themselves.

D.They ought to have discussions over difficulties with their children patiently.

3.The main idea of the passage is that being parents, you should　　　　　 .

A.Help your children to impress their teachers at school.

B.Ask your children to get ready for classes before going to school

C.Teach your children to be polite to both their teachers and classmates.

D.Remind your children to observe all the rules when at school.

高一英语阅读选择简单题查看答案及解析

Any boy and any girl as well as the teachers who _______ to lead their class _______ asked to meet at the school gate before 6:30 in the morning.

A. is; is　　 B. are; is

C. are; are　　 D. is; are

高一英语单项填空中等难度题查看答案及解析

If you stayed up or had a bad night of sleep last night, you know it’s difficult to stay awake in class today. Your teacher’s voice might begin to sound like a lullaby(催眠曲). 1. To keep yourself awake, some tips are worth trying in class.

Sit in the front of the room. Why? 2. Besides, it’ll be easier to pay attention and participate when you’re in the front. You’ll also be near the people who are more likely to participate, and the sound of their voices might keep you awake.

3. Ask and answer questions and pay attention to the lecture. This will help if you’re tired or discouraged by the content of the lecture, because you can ask your teacher questions to get to the bottom of the problems. Talking will also keep you engaged and alert. It might be helpful to make a goal for yourself to answer or ask at least 3 questions per class. 4. For example, you might say “I didn’t understand the last part of the proof. Could you explain it again in more detail?”

Listen actively to the lesson. Active listening is a great way to force yourself to stay awake because it requires engagement of your mind as well as your body. 5. To effectively listen to your teacher, you should try to maintain eye contact, face the speaker, pay close attention to what the speaker is saying and ask questions during a pause in the lecture.

A.Participate in class activities.

B.Develop interest in the subject.

C.If so, classrooms can be boring because you’re tired.

D.Keep silent all the time and try to catch as much information as possible.

E.To avoid annoying your teacher you should try to keep your questions on topic.

F.You’ll be more motivated to stay awake if you know that the teacher can see you easily.

G.Practicing active listening can help you keep your eyes open for the length of the lesson.

高一英语七选五中等难度题查看答案及解析

To be a good teacher, you need some of the gifts of a good actor; you must be able to hold the attention and interest of your audience; you must be a clear speaker, with a good, strong, pleasing voice which is fully under your control; and you must be able to act what you are teaching, in order to make its meaning clear.

Watch a good teacher, and you will see that he does not sit still before his class: he stands the whole time he is teaching; he walks about, using his arms, hands and fingers to help him in his explanations, and his face to express feelings. Listen to him, and you will hear the loudness, the quality and the musical note of his voice always changing according to what he is talking about.

The fact that a good teacher has some of the gifts of a good actor doesn’t mean that he will indeed be able to act well on the stage, for there are very important differences between the teacher’s work and the actor’s. The actor has to speak words which he has learnt by heart; he has to repeat exactly the same words each time he plays a certain part, even his movements and the ways in which he uses his voice are usually fixed beforehand. What he has to do is to make all these carefully learnt words and actions seem natural on the stage.

A good teacher works in quite a different way. His audience takes an active part in his play: they ask and answer questions, they obey orders, and if they don’t understand something, they say so. The teacher therefore has to meet the needs of his audience, which is his class. He cannot learn his part by heart, but must invent it as he goes along.

I have known many teachers who were fine actors in class but were unable to take part in a stage-play because they could not keep strictly to what another had written.

1.What is the text about ?

A.How to become a good teacher.

B.What a good teacher should do outside the classroom.

C.What teachers and actors could learn from each other.

D.The similarities and differences between a teacher’s work and an actor’s.

2.A good teacher ____ .

A.knows how to hold the interest of his students B.must have a good voice

C.knows how to act on the stage D.stands or sits still while teaching

3.In what way is a teacher’s work different from an actor’s ?

A.The teacher must learn everything by heart .

B.He knows how to control his voice better than an actor .

C.He has to deal with unexpected situations .

D.He has to use more facial expressions .

4.The main difference between students in class and a theatre audience is that ____.

A.students can move around in the classroom

B.students must keep silent while theatre audience needn’t

C.no memory work is needed for the students

D.the students must take part in their teachers’ plays

5.Which of the following is true?

A.Teachers have to learn by heart what they are going to stay in class.

B.A teacher cannot decide beforehand what exactly he is going to stay in class.

C.A teacher must speak louder than an actor.

D.A teacher must have a better memory than an actor.

高一英语阅读选择中等难度题查看答案及解析

When your baby get older, you’re faced with the most challenging problem of all: How to get him or her best education you can.

“There was a time when you could enroll your child in kindergarten and about 13 years sit on one of those folding chairs and touch your eyes as they graduated from high school，” Peg Tyre says.

These days the difficult decision of where to send your kid to school starts early.You have to choose a school when your child might only be three or four years old.When you go on a school tour, Tyre says, don’t judge the place just by the finger paintings decorating the hallways.

“You want to look at the relationship between teacher and student，” she says.”What you want to see is teachers who have a lot of respect for kids, who seem to know their strengths and weaknesses.”

There’s a myth Tyre wants to say that has to end that all teachers are good teachers and can be moved around from classroom to classroom like bricks.

“That’s just not true，” she says.”One of the things I would say is a teacher who is in their first year is not a wonderful sign for an effective teacher for your child.They tend to be kind, they have a lot of energy, but they are not that effective in that first year.” So what do you do if your child is placed in a classroom with an inexperienced teacher? Don’t march straight to the principal’s office and demand a change, Tyre says.

“You can go to the principal and you can ask this question: What are you doing to support that teacher this year so that my child moves forward this year and is not just a guinea pig (实验对象) for your first­year teacher？”

Many parents know when they tour a school to ask about class size.But Tyre says the research doesn’t suggest that a smaller class size is a must.”When you look at the really research on class size, class size is very important from kindergarten to third grade ...After third grade there’s less of an effect on academic result.” she says.

1.We can infer from the second paragraph that in the past ________.

A.a child had to learn at the same school for 13 years

B.parents would cry at their children’s graduation from school

C.folding chairs were required for children to sit on

D.it was easy to get the best education for a child at school

2.To choose a school for your kid，you should ________.

A.judge whether teachers respect your kid

B.decide what strengths and weaknesses your kid has

C.see how finger paintings decorate the hallways

D.consider whether the teachers have their own kids

3.What statement may Tyre agree to?

A.A new teacher can be energetic and effective.

B.It is wonderful for a kid to have a first­year teacher.

C.A new teacher can teach students of different levels.

D.All teachers aren’t good teachers in fact.

4.What was Tyre’s attitude towards class size?

A.She was strongly against it. B.She felt it wasn’t worth consideration.

C.She thought it was most important. D.She insisted on taking it seriously.

高一英语阅读选择中等难度题查看答案及解析

Ever since I was a little girl, I’ve loved reading crime and detective novels, so I guess it was pretty normal that I started writing them when I was older. However, my family is very big on having a traditional career and so when I said that I wanted to go to college and study writing, my parents told me that I couldn’t. They told me that I had to study for a degree so that I would achieve a career, and not something as risky as writing. I suppose I could have studied journalism, but I didn’t want to lose interest in writing because it would be something I would do every day for work, not for pleasure. I thought that teaching looked like a pretty good compromise, especially because of the long holidays. It was a good choice: by the time I was twenty-five, I’d already finished two novels and had an agent.

To be honest, I never meant to keep my being a crime writer a secret or anything, and my friends have always known. One of the reasons most people don’t know is because my agent told me that my name Hazel sounded too much like a romance novelist for older women. She suggested Brooke Lane and I thought, “Well, if you think it’ll make me successful, okay,” I’d totally forgotten about it until I walked into school one day and saw one of my workmates reading my novel. I asked her some questions about it, and it was so clear that she had no idea that I’d written it—she even offered to lend it to me after she’d finished! Of course, sometimes I wonder what my students would think if they knew that their teacher was going home on the weekend to write about murders and dead bodies, but I think my parents probably did me a favor: my teaching job keeps me in touch with the real world.

1.Hazel is probably 　　 .

A.a teacher and writer B.a journalist

C.a teacher and artist D.an agent

2.The underlined words “is very big on” in the passage most probably mean 　　 .

A.to give no advice B.to misunderstand something

C.to have more experiences D.to like something very much

3.From the passage we can know that Hazel 　 .

A.told her workmates about her writing novels B.would like to write something for teaching

C.accepted Brooke Lane as her pen name D.agreed to study journalism for a degree

4.Hazel finally realized that her parents’ advice on her career was 　　 .

A.helpful B.exciting C.disappointing D.risky

高一英语阅读选择中等难度题查看答案及解析

I arrived in the classroom，ready to share my knowledge and experience with 76 students who would be my English literature class.Having taught in the US for 17 years，I have no doubt about my ability to hold their attention and to impress on them my admiration for the literature of my mother tongue.

I was shocked when the monitor shouted，“stand up！”The entire class rose as I entered the room and I was somewhat confused about how to get them to sit down again，but once the embarrassment was over，I quickly regained my calmness and admiration.I went back to my office with the rosy glow which came from a strong sense of achievement.

My students kept diaries.However，as I read them，the rosy glow was gradually replaced by a strong sense of sadness.The first diary said，“Our literature teacher didn’t teach us anything today.Perhaps her next lecture will be better.”Greatly surprised，I read diary after diary，each expressing a similar theme.“Didn’t I teach them anything？I described the entire Western philosophy (哲学) and laid the historical background for all the works we will study in class，”I complained.“How should they say I didn’t teach them anything？”

It was a long term，and it gradually became clear that my ideas about education were not the same as those of my students.I thought a teacher’s job was to raise interesting questions and provide enough background so that students could draw their own conclusions.My students thought a teacher’s job was to provide exact information as directly and clearly as possible.What a difference!

However，I also learned a lot，and the experience with my Chinese students has made me a better American teacher，knowing how to teach in a different culture.

1.The writer wants to tell us through his experience that ________.

A.Chinese students are hard to teach

B.he has no experience in teaching Chinese students

C.Chinese students has made him a better American teacher

D.different countries have different cultures even in teaching

2.We can know that on the first day the writer ________.

A.was disappointed at her students’ performance B.felt very confident about herself at first

C.felt she didn’t teach them much D.was very confident about her students

3.At the beginning of the lesson，the writer got confused because of ________.

A.cultural differences B.her own embarrassment

C.students’ embarrassment D.students’ admiration

4.The writer learnt from their diaries that the students wanted to ________.

A.raise interesting questions B.know more about background

C.draw their own conclusions D.know more about exact facts

高一英语阅读选择简单题查看答案及解析

The Internet has become part of teenager’s life. There’s a report on 3375 students aged from 10 to 18 in seven Chinese cities. It says that 38 percent of them believe they use the Internet often. While most of them get useful information and use the Internet to help in their studies, some are not using it in a good way. Many are playing online games too much. A few even visit Web sites they should not look at. Bad things can happen if young people spend too much time on the Internet.

In order to help young people use the Internet in a good way, a textbook on good Internet behavior has started to be used in some Shanghai middle schools this term. It uses real examples to teach students all about good ways of using the Internet. It gives useful advice such as it’s good to read news or find helpful information to study. Some students also make online friends. But if you are meeting a friend online, let your parents know.

Teachers and parents all think the book is a very good idea. It will teach students how to be a good person in the online world. It will be a guide for teens to use the Internet and keep students away from the bad sites.

1.The underlined word “it” means______.

A.the book B.report

C.the Internet D.useful information

2.From the report, about _______ students between 10 and 18 years old in the seven cities use the Internet often.

A.3375 B.1280

C.2100 D.3000

3.What do most of the students do on the Internet ?

A.To make online friends

B.To play online games

C.To get useful information to help in their studies.

D.To visit Web sites they should not look at.

4.Why do teachers and parents think the book is a good idea?

A.Because it helps with the students studies.

B.Because it gives useful information for studying.

C.Because it is used in Shanghai middle schools.

D.Because it deals with how to behave well on the internet.

高一英语阅读选择中等难度题查看答案及解析