在一次中德两国交流活动中，组织者进行了主题为“将来你是选择普通高中（ordinary high school ）还是职业高中（vocational high school ）？”的调查，请你根据表中的调查结果，完成下面的短文。
| |
Choice |
Percent (%) |
Reasons |
| German students |
vocational high school |
70 |
learn useful skills, easy to get a favorite job. |
| Chinese students |
ordinary high school |
80 |
Go to a favorite university, work for the government. |
Vocational or Ordinary ?
A survey has been done among students from German and China . Here are the result .
70%of German students would like to choose vocational high schools for further study . They think they can learn in vocational high schools so that they can get their favorite jobs when they graduate .
In comparison, most students prefer to go to ordinary high schools . In their opinion, going to a favorite
and working for the government after graduation is what they have been dreaming of .
As for me,I will choose because
.
Island University has a competition for middle school students.
Read about the competition on their web site.
School Competition
Students! Here is your chance to help the physically disabled (残疾人). Think out a robot or a machine to help them live better. There’ll be three prizes. The winning schools will each get $15,000. Read the information below:
What do you have to do?
·Try to know problems faced by the physically disabled in Hong Kong. Write a 200-word article on the difficulties these people have to suffer each day.
· Try to know modern inventions that help the physically disabled. Then think out a robot or a machine that will improve the lives of the physically disabled. Draw your invention. You can make as many drawings as you like to show your invention. You can even make a small model of your invention.
·Write a short description of your invention.
Who can join?
All middle school students in Hong Kong.
So, come on! Join the competition, and get the chance!
阅读短文，回答下列问题。Where can you find the information?
__________________________________________________________Why is the school competition held?
__________________________________________________________What prize will each winning school get?
__________________________________________________________How many words should be written on the difficulties the disabled have to suffer each day?
__________________________________________________________Who can join the competition?
__________________________________________________________
Dogs like living with people. They are very friendly. They can do many things for people. (A) Some dogs help people to look after sheep, other dogs help them to find the lost children. And some of the dogs can help the blind.
There is a kind of dog. His name is (B) Seeing Eye dog. Now we can see this kind of dog all over the world. They are working for the blind. The Seeing Eye dog is strong and easy to train. He helps the blind to walk from place to place. Before a dog becomes a Seeing Eye dog, he must go to a training school for about three months. (C) ____________ the dog has to learn to sit or stay when he hears the trainer’s call. In his next lesson the dog learns to take his trainer across busy streets. The dog has many things to learn. At the end of the training he must take tests. When he passes the test, the Seeing Eye dog will do things by himself.
Now he can help the blind people. (D) The new master may be a man, a woman, or even a child. It takes the dog and his blind master about a month (E) ___________ (learn) to work and live together.
阅读短文，完成任务。将（A）处划线句子译成汉语。
______________________________________________________________In Chinese, (B) “Seeing Eye dog”means _______________________.
在（C）处填入一个适当单词。_____________________
改写（D）处划线句子。__________ the new master ___________ a man,
用(E)处所给单词的适当形式填空。_________________
Uncle Li and Uncle Wang are good friends. They live next to each other and their farms are both at the foot of the mountain. So they can help each other. But neither of them likes to use his head. They’re both poor though they work hard. Most villagers have built new houses, but they still live in the low and broken houses. They never find out why.
Once Uncle Li went to town to buy some medicine for his wife. In the town he heard the apples in a city were expensive. He told Uncle Wang about it as soon as he went back. They decided to carry some apples to the city. They borrowed some money from their friends and bought nearly 1,000 kilograms of apples in the villages and carried them to the city on a tractor. Bad luck! A lot of apples have already been carried there when they arrived. A few days later they had to sell them at a low price (价格). They felt unhappy and returned to their village.
“I can’t understand why we sustained (蒙受) losses in business while others always profit (盈利)” Uncle Li asked one day.
“The tractor was too small.” Uncle Wang said without thinking. “We’ll carry more apples on a truck next time!”
“I agree!” said Uncle Li. “How foolish (傻的) we were!”Uncle Li and Uncle Wang live in the low and broken houses because __________.
| A．they hope to save money |
| B．they’re both poor |
| C．their farms are at the foot of the mountain |
| D．they’re not far from their farms |
The two farmers carried the apples to the city to _________.
| A．make a journey | B．visit some places of interest |
| C．meet their friends | D．make a profit |
The two farmers had to sell their apples at a low price because ________.
| A．theirs weren’t as good as the others’ |
| B．theirs were much less than the others’ |
| C．many apples had been already carried to the city |
| D．they forgot to carry them on a truck |
Uncle Li and Uncle Wang were unhappy because _________.
| A．they had sustained losses in business |
| B．they had lost some money in the city |
| C．something was wrong with the tractor |
| D．other people profited in the city |
Which of the following is true?
| A．The two farmers found out why they were poor. |
| B．The two farmers will soon get rich. |
| C．Neither of the farmers is clever. |
| D．The two farmers decided to buy a truck. |
Riding a bike is good exercise and great fun. But what do you do with your old bikes? American girl Nicole Basil has a wonderful answer to this question. She sets up Pedal Power — a charity (慈善团体) to collect (收集) old bikes and gives them to people who need them.
Nicole, 12, starts Pedal Power when she is only 8. She collects more than 250 bikes each year. Every November, Pedal Power holds a bike race to ask for more donations (捐赠品).
Nicole also gives bikes to students as prizes. Top students and hardworking students both get them. “Some kids aren’t as lucky as others, but they still do well in school,” she says. “And I think they should get a prize.”
A bicycle shop helps Nicole check (检查) every bike for the races. The owner says he is happy to help the charity. “This is just wonderful,” he says. “We need to learn from Nicole to help others.”
阅读短文，回答下列问题。What does Nicole do with the old bikes?
_________________________________________How long has Nicole worked at Pedal Power?
_________________________________________When does Nicole hold a bike race to ask for more old bikes?
_________________________________________What kind of students can get the bikes as prizes?
_________________________________________What does the shop owner do to help the charity?
_________________________________________
My ideal school is not far from my home. It takes me 15 minutes to walk there. In the school, there are a lot of trees and flowers. It’s very beautiful. We also have a big school library, a swimming pool and seven computer rooms. We begin our classes at 8:00 a.m. and finish them at 4:00 p.m. So we have a lot of time for after-school activities. Every day we only do our homework for an hour. Every month we can go on a school trip. How wonderful the school life is!
阅读以上短文，完成下面各题，每空一词。The boy goes to his ideal school on ________.
There is a ________, a swimming pool and seven computer rooms in his school.
His school ________ at 4:00 p.m.
The students have ________ time for after-school activities.
They often go on a school trip every ________.