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As a new teacher at Doull Primary School in Denver, Kyle Schwartz thought of a simple way to get to know her third graders, most of whom came from  1  families. She asked them to complete the   2   “I wish my teacher knew…” and share something about themselves.

Their   3  answers gave the teacher a chance to understand her students’ difficulties. “I wish my teacher knew I have no pencils to do my homework,”   4  one child. “I wish my teacher knew sometimes my reading homework is not signed（签名）, because my mom is not   5  a lot,” wrote another. Some shared hope for the  6. “ I wish my teacher knew that I want to go to college.”

“Some notes are really heartbreaking,” Schwartz tells ABC News. “I care   7 about each of my students and I don’t want them to be poor forever.” She explains, “ I hoped to know   8  I could better support them. So I   9  to let them tell me what I needed to know. That was why I created the fill-in-the-blank exercise.”

  10 the third graders were allowed to answer anonymously（匿名）, most wanted to include names. And some were even excited to read their notes out loud.  11 one shy girl who bravely said that she was lonely. “After she told the class, ‘I don’t have friends to   12  me,’ I was worried what they would do.” Schwartz tells Us Weekly. “However, I felt encouraged to see how much support the other kids offered   13 . They invited  her to play at break and sit with them at lunch. You see,   14  have an unusual ability to express empathy（同情）.”

“The results have been   15  ,” says Schwartz. “It speaks to the importance of giving people a voice and really listening to them.”

1. A. traditional        B. friendly           C. poor           D. small

2. A. postcard          B. note              C. letter            D. diary

3. A. honest             B. polite             C. usual             D. right

4. A. suggested        B. copied          C. repeated        D. wrote

5. A. free                B. careless           C. famous        D. angry

6. A. society            B. course           C. research         D. future

7. A. secretly           B. deeply           C. nervously       D. directly

8. A. where             B. why              C. how                D. when

9. A. decided           B. refused         C. forgot             D. learned

10. A. Unless           B. Though          C. Because        D. Once

11. A. like               B. from              C. against            D. except

12. A. look for         B. talk about     C. depend on       D. play with

13. A. him               B. you                 C. her                 D. me

14. A. children         B. teachers         C. parents          D. reporters

15. A. boring           B. surprising       C. worrying         D. relaxing

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Sydney Fredette has a lot of things to deal with. Not only is she a high school student, but she has also set up her own organization, Beary Merry Christmas. She volunteers（自愿）to serve poor kids and families in Orange Country in California, US.

To remember her best friend who died of cancer nearly 10 years ago, Fredette decided  to serve those in Orange Country who are less lucky than she is.

She began with the simple idea of collecting donated(捐赠的)Build-A-Bears,the popular toy animal that is made by children themselves in the stores’ workshops. Fredette then gave them as gifts to the homeless children in California during the holiday season.

With donations at more than 100 bears a year, Fredette and volunteers host activities every year, where volunteers not only give out the bears, but also clothing, meals, and other things.

Not wanting to limit（限制）the giving to just the holiday months, Fredette now hosts other activities for Valentine’s Day, Mother’s Day and Halloween, providing the chance for her volunteer team to make a difference through the year.

“I love making relationships with the people I serve,” Fredette said. “The thanks they have, hearing their stories and seeing how happy they are, it’s so cool.”

Future plans for Fredette include building a public food bank and providing a self-development class for students in her school who will soon attend college.

Heading to college herself in the fall, Fredette is looking to stay local and continue to help out in her hometown. In fact, she was regarded as a “Dreamer & Doer” not long ago for her work in improving her community, along with 32 other high school students.

1. Fredette started her own organization to     .

A. keep her life busy   B. help poor people       C. look after the sick         D. thank her best friend

2. What can we learn about Beary Merry Christmas?

A. It holds one activity a year.        B. It offers service around America.

C. It buys bears from the stores.       D. It gives out other things besides bears.

3. It can be inferred（推断）that Fredette     .

A. likes telling people stories         B. dreams of being a teacher

C. is pleased with what she does      D. plans to leave California for college

4. What can be the best title for the passage?

A. Giving back to society           B. Getting on well with others

C. Providing a food bank            D. Improving community colleges

More Chinese universities are opening their libraries to the public, allowing people to enjoy reading during normal time and the vacations.

But for some students, including Wang Ling, 21, in Sun Yat-sen University, this practice has caused headaches. “Members of the public come to our libraries more for sightseeing than reading,” said Wang.

“They sometimes even bring their kids along, and take photos as if it were a place of interest.”

Wang has found it hard to get a seat during busy times. Being short of space is a common problem for university libraries in China.

However, this is not the only reason why students dislike their libraries being open to members of the public. They fear that the quietness of the libraries will be influenced because of visitors’ rude behavior.

Chen Jie, 18, a student in Tongji University, is one who would be against opening to the public. “I have been to a public library before. People were chatting loudly or speaking on cell phone so you can hardly read,” Chen said. She notices teachers doing serious reading and feels their concentration（专注）has influenced her. “If too many strangers stay here, the whole library will be a noisy place and it’s difficult for us to study quietly,” she said.

Will there be alternative（可替代的）ways to share those libraries? Some experts consider that university libraries can prevent the public from entering certain areas. “We might keep magazines for academic research only for teachers and students,” said Zhu Lina, library director in Jinan University.

Working together with the community library is another solution. “It’s possible that a member of the public can order a book in our library over the Internet,” Ge Jianxiong, the library director in Fudan University said. “We’ll send it to a public libraries close to their home.”

1. We can see from the passage that Wang Ling     .

A. hates to study in the library            B. prefers sightseeing to reading

C. feels good to play with kids            D. is a university student aged 21

2. In Chen Jie’s opinion, visitors to university libraries may     .

A. take up too much space               B. break the peace there

C. make teachers relaxed                D. get students to read more

3. The writer mentions two libraries directors’ words to help explain how to     .

A. manage libraries online         B. keep the public polite

C. share university libraries        D. do scientific research

4. Where is the passage most probably taken from?

A. A newspaper.  B. A library guide.   C. A story book.  D. A notice board.

Have you ever seen a car without a driver? It sounds crazy, but these computer-driven driverless cars will soon be filling roads near you. Companies like Google and Tesla have been designing and testing these cars, and the technology is there.

So how? The cars have sensors（感应器）all around which can find other cars and objects in the road. Road signs are read by cameras, and satellite navigation systems（卫星导航系统）are used so the car knows how to get where you want to go. All you have to do is type in the address! Finally, a central computer system takes in all the information that it receives from the sensors and cameras and works out when to speed up, stop and turn.

Sound like your idea of heaven（天堂）? Sitting back, looking out of the windows and even watching a film or reading a book while ‘driving’ would be possible with this new technology. You wouldn’t have to worry about remembering directions to where you’re going. In addition, computers would also drive more safely than people — they would obey the rules and have quicker action times when in dangerous situations.

However, there are many drawbacks of driverless cars. Computers would have difficulties making ethical（道德的）decisions: if a child ran into the road, would the computer choose to hit the child or turn suddenly and potentially kill the car’s passengers? Moreover, I personally find driving fun –I’d miss never driving a car myself. There would also be many other decisions to be made –should children, or drunk people, be allowed in a driverless car by themselves? Or would there need to be a person with a driving license in the car at all times?

I’m not certain I’d want a driverless car – but it’s only a matter of time before they’ll become more affordable and popular on our roads.

1. When using a driverless car, you need only     .

A. read the road signs carefully           B. check the cameras

C. put the address into the computer         D. remember the directions

2. The third paragraph mainly tells us about the     of driverless cars.

A. instructions          B. standards           C. advantages        D. tests

3. The underlined word “potentially” in Paragraph 4 means “    “.

A. possibly          B. successfully         C. especially       D. naturally

4. What’s the writer’s opinion about future driverless cars?

A. They’ll cause more accidents.                B. They’ll be less expensive.

C. They’ll use less energy.                     D. They’ll run much faster.