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Finished school for the summer? It’s great to kick back and relax after the school year-and you deserve it! －but it might also be the time to start building that resume(履历) to help you impress the college of your choice. Having a great resume doesn’t just mean getting a summer job; lots of activities can help you stay active and gain valuable experience over the summer months.

·Work
Getting a job is one of the most practical ways to build your resume and impress colleges, even if working during the school year is not an option（选择）, look out for specific holiday jobs, like residential（寄宿的）summer camps that look for help during the summer months. Any job is good, but working in a leadership position or in an academic area looks particularly good on your resume. The more a job challenges you, the more it builds the skills that colleges and future employers are interested in seeing in applicants(申请者).

·Volunteer
Give back to gain resume points. Community service is another great way to gain valuable work and leadership experience. Nonprofit（非利益性） organizations such as soup kitchens and animal shelters are always looking for volunteers, and it shouldn’t be difficult to find a volunteer organization near your home that could use an extra pair of hands for a few hours a week during the summer.

·Travel
This may not be a viable（可行的）option for everyone, but if you can afford it, summer travel can be an exciting way to enrich your mind and improve your resume. Visiting and exploring（探索） foreign places will broaden your horizons（视野）, allowing you to expand your awareness of other people and cultures. It’s also a great chance to develop your language skills.

·Take Classes
“School” might be the last thing you want after a hard year of studying, but summer school isn’t always a bad thing. Colleges may look kindly upon applicants who take the initiative（主动）to further their education over the summer. There are a variety of options available for high school students wishing to take summer courses, both at their own schools and at local colleges. If your high school offers summer classes, they could be a great way to advance your math or language skills, two areas that are often lacking on students’ college applications. Local community colleges also offer summer courses for high school juniors and seniors that cover a variety of introductory-level topics. They not only look great on your transcript（成绩单）, but also provide a chance to improve your preparations for college and allow you to explore possible career options.

What is the main benefit of summer activities according to the text?

A．To enjoy yourself to the full.

B．To enrich your resume.

C．To develop certain skills.

D．To improve your academic performance.

What is the most practical activity to do during summer vacation?

A．Getting a job.	B．Traveling overseas.
C．Doing volunteer work.	D．Attending classes.

According to the text, “soup kitchens and animal shelters” .

A．are places that you can travel to

B．might be included in summer courses

C．are recommended（推荐）as part-time jobs for the summer

D．can be good volunteer jobs

.Why is “taking classes” recommended in the article?

A．It only takes a few hours a week.

B．It can enrich your career experience.

C．It can prepare you for further study.

D．It can raise your cultural awareness.

As children enter their teens, they usually begin to pay more attention to their peers (同龄人) or friends. Peer pressure (压力) can be direct or indirect, but it is almost always present. Learning to deal with peer pressure makes a teen mature (成熟的), and able to get along well with others.
Bad peer pressure is when teens feel pressured to do something that they know is wrong, such as smoking, drinking, or drugs (毒品), and it can remain (保持) with them into adulthood. This is the main reason teens have to learn how to deal with it.
Some of the things you can do to deal with peer pressure include:
● Choose friends who share your values. Good friends use positive (正面的) peer pressure to help you be your best self.
● Keep away from situations where people are doing things you don’t want to do.
● Think about your reasons for doing things. Are they good reasons? Are you being true to yourself and your values?
● Practice ways of saying no, giving excuses if necessary.
● Talk to your parents, or other trusted adults, about the kinds of peer pressure you face, and listen to their advice.
● Let the adults know when you need help to get out of a bad situation, and don’t know what to do about it.
Remember that if just one teen stands up to (对抗) peer pressure, usually others will join him or her. Learning to deal with peer pressure will make you confident and mature.
According to the passage, which of the following is true?

A．Peer pressure includes direct and indirect pressure.

B．Peer pressure comes from smoking, drinking and using drugs.

C．Teens facing pressure can’t tell right from wrong.

D．Teens who face pressure are more mature than those who don’t

Teens should learn to deal with peer pressure mainly because ______.

A．it can keep them from making serious mistakes

B．it can influence them even when they have grown up

C．learning to deal with it can help them get along well with others

D．learning to deal with it can make them mature and confident

According to the passage, teens should ______.

A．stay away from people who don’t share their values

B．have good reasons for anything they do

C．say no more often than yes

D．ask adults they trust for help

Which column(专栏) of a magazine may the passage be from?

A．Social problem.	B．School news.
C．For teens.	D．Science.

After an absence of thirty years, I decided to visit my old school again. I had expected to find changes, but not a completely different building. As I walked up the school drive, I wondered for a moment if I had come to the right address. The dirty red brick houses had been swept away. In its place stood a bright, modern block. A huge expanse of glass extended (延展) across the face of the building, and in front, there was a well-kept lawn (草坪) where previously there had been “an untidy gravel (沙石) yard”.
I was pleased to find that it was bread time and that the children were all in the playground. This would enable me to meet some members of staff(职员). On entering the building, I was surprised to hear loud laughter coming from what appeared to be the masters’ common room. I could not help remembering the teachers in my time, all dressed in black gowns (长袍) and high collars (领子). And above all, I recalled Mr Garston whom we had nicknamed “Mr Ghastly”, the headmaster who had iron discipline(纪律) on staff and pupils alike. I knocked at the common room door and was welcomed by a smiling young man who introduced himself to me as the headmaster. He was dressed casually in a sports jacket, and his cheerful manner, quickly dispelled (驱散) the image of Mr Ghastly. After I had explained who I was, the headmaster presented me to the teachers all of whom were a little younger than himself, and said he would take me round the school.
Here the biggest surprise of all was in store for (在等待)me. Gone were the heavy desks of old with their deeply carved names; gone too, were the dark classrooms with their ink stained, dark brown walls, and their raised platforms for the teachers. The rooms now were painted in bright colors, and the children, far from sitting straight in their places, seemed almost free to do as they liked. I looked with envy(嫉妒) as I remembered how, as a child, I had looked at the blackboard hardly daring to whisper to my neighbor.
“Mr Ghastly” must be ______.

A．the writer’s teacher	B．a serious old man
C．the strict headmaster	D．a naughty boy

Which of the following statements is NOT true?

A．He had expected that the school had completely changed.

B．In the writer’s time, all the teachers were dressed in black gowns and high collars.

C．There was a well-kept lawn in their school when he visited it.

D．An untidy gravel yard had disappeared.

From what is said in the passage, it seems clear that the writer ______.

A．disapproved of all the changes that had taken place

B．felt sorry for the children in the school

C．was glad that the school was still the same

D．felt that conditions at the school had improved a lot

Ali is from a Middle Eastern country. He now stays in the USA. He smokes a lot of cigarettes (香烟) every day. He has smoked for nine years. Ali says, “ I tried to quit (放弃) smoking in my hometown, but it was impossible. My brothers smoke. All my friends smoke. At parties and at meetings, almost all the men smoke. Here in the United States, not as many people smoke. It will be easier to change my habit here.”
Many smokers are like Ali: they want to stop smoking. The smokers know that smoking is bad for their health. They know it can cause cancer and heart disease. But it is difficult for them to give up smoking because cigarettes have a drug in them. The drug is nicotine (尼古丁). People who smoke a lot need nicotine.
When a person first begins to smoke, he usually feels terrible. The nicotine makes him sick. In a few days, the smoker’s body is used to the nicotine, and he feels fine. Later, the smoker needs nicotine to keep feeling fine. Without nicotine, he feels bad.
It is very hard to quit smoking, and many people who quit will soon smoke again. At a party or at work they will decide to smoke “just one” cigarette. Then they will smoke another cigarette, and another. Soon they become smokers again. Maybe there is only one easy way to quit smoking: never start.
Many smokers want to stop smoking because they ______.

A．want to go to parties

B．can’t smoke at work

C．know that smoking is bad for their health.

D．need nicotine and drugs

For some people，it is difficult to give up smoking because

A．cigarettes have a nicotine (尼古丁)in them

B．they don’t want to give up.

C．The nicotine makes them sick.

D．They needs nicotine to keep feeling fine.

By writing this text, the writer hopes that people will ______.

A．stay in their hometown	B．never start smoking
C．eat less and smoke more	D．not live in the United States

Studies show that children who eat breakfast do better in school. It doesn’t take much further thought to know that adults will feel better and do better at work as well. Whether you work at home, on the farm, at the office, at school, or on the road, it is not a good idea to have no breakfast.
If we have no breakfast, we are likely to become tired when our brains and bodies run low on fuel (食物). By mid-morning, a lot of us grab a cup of coffee or eat a sugary candy bar to wake up again. This might work for a few minutes, but by lunch time we are hungry. Eating a good breakfast sets the tone for the rest of the day.
Having no breakfast is a popular way to lose weight, but not a smart one. Many people believe that they will lose weight if they have no meals, but that just isn’t true; the body expects to be refueled a few times a day, starting with a healthy breakfast. Eating breakfast is good for losing weight. In fact, people who eat breakfast are more likely to keep a healthy weight.
A healthy breakfast should have some protein (蛋白质) and some fiber (纤维). Protein can come from low fat meats, eggs, or beans. Fiber can be found in whole grains, vegetables and fruits. A good example of a healthy breakfast might be something simple like a hard boiled egg, an orange, and a bowl of whole grain cereal with low fat milk. Stay away from sugary foods and white bread because they are digested (消化) quickly and will leave you hungry and tired in several hours. Protein and fiber will keep you feeling full until lunch time.
The first paragraph mainly tells us that ______.

A．it is necessary to have a good breakfast every day

B．many adults are too busy to have breakfast every day

C．many adults go to work without having breakfast

D．many children go to school without breakfast

According to the passage, we feel tired at work probably because ______.

A．we need to have a cup of coffee

B．we don’t have a good breakfast

C．our brains don’t work any longer

D．we don’t have enough sleep at night

What does the underlined sentence in Paragraph 2 mean?

A．Having a good breakfast can help you to finish your work.

B．Eating a good breakfast is enough for the whole day.

C．Breakfast is really the most important meal in a day.

D．You will be happier if you have a good breakfast.

We can learn from the last paragraph that ______.

A．it is healthy only to have beans and eggs for your breakfast

B．you mustn’t have meat for your breakfast

C．you should eat sugary foods if you feel hungry

D．you should eat something which has protein and fiber for breakfast

A．Slow parenting and its advantages.	B．Different parenting styles.
C．The requirements of slow parenting.	D．The author’s opinion on slow parenting.