Word travelled quickly in the small fishing village of Port Washington, Wisconsin. So when McCarty wanted to build a playground for kids with special needs. 2,800 people ? a third of the town ? rolled up their sleeves(衣袖)and helped her.

"A lot of learning comes through play," said McCarty, 52, a special education teacher for 28 years. But her students were too often left out. She'd seen the traditional playgrounds stop wheelchairs dead in their tracks.

On September 16, 2008, the first day of the project, they came. Two women heard about the project on the way to work and took the day off to help. A couple in their 80s took part in the job. Children came and gave a helpful hand. Many were volunteers. They all worked very hard.

Today, Possibility Playground is one of the most popular destinations in Ozaukee County. All children can play shoulder to shoulder. There is special equipment(裝置) in different parts. Here, you see all the kids on the same playground having fun.

"People used to ask. 'Why do you want to build a playground just for children with disabilities?' " McCarty said. "They didn't get it. It's only when you build a playground for children with disabilities that you build one for all children."

1.What's McCarty?

2.How many people are there in the town?

3.What does the underlined word mean?

About 21,000 young people in 17 American states do not attend classes in school buildings.

Instead, they receive their elementary and high school education by working at home on computers. The center for Education Reform says the United States has 67 public “cyberschools(網(wǎng)絡(luò)學(xué)校)” and that is about twice as many as two years ago.

The money for students to go to a cyberschool comes from the governments of the states where they live. Some educators say cyberschools receive money that should support traditional public schools. They also say it is difficult to know if students are learning well.

Other educators praise this new form of education for letting students work at their own speed. These people say cyberschools help students who were unhappy or unsuccessful in traditional schools. They say learning at home by computer ends long bus rides for children who live far from school.

Whatever the judgment of cyberschools, they are getting more and more popular. For example, a new cyberschools called Commonwealth Connections Academy will take in students this fall. It will serve children in the state of Pennsylvania from ages five through thirteen.

Children get free equipment for their online education. This includes a computer, a printer, books and technical services. Parents and students talk with teachers by telephone or by sending emails through their computers when necessary.

Students at cyberschools usually do not know one another. But 56 such students finished studies at Western Pennsylvania Cyber Charter School recently met for the first time. They were guests of honor at their graduation.

1.What do we know from the text about students of a cyberschools?

2.What is a problem with cyberschools?

3.Cyberschools are getting popular because__________.

My teenage son Karl became withdrawn after his father died. As a single parent, I tried to do my best to talk to him. But the more I tried, the more he pulled away. When his report card arrived during his junior year, it said that he had been absent 95 times from classes and had six falling grades for the year. In this way he would never graduate. I sent him to the school adviser, and I even begged him. Nothing worked.

One night I felt so powerless that I got down on my knees and asked God for help. “Please God, I can’t do anything more for my son. I’m at the end of my rope. I’m giving the whole thing up to you.”

I was at work when I got a phone call. A man introduced himself as the headmaster. “I want to talk to you about Karl’s absences.” Before he could say another word, I choked up（哽咽）and all my disappointment and sadness over Karl came pouring out into the ears of this stranger. “I love my son, but I just don’t know what to do. I’ve tried everything to get Karl to go back to school and nothing has worked. It’s out of my hands. ” For a moment there was silence on the other and of the line. The headmaster seriously said, “Thank you for your time”, and hung up.

　　Karl’s next report card showed a marked improvement in his grades. Finally, he was even on the list of the best students at school. In his fourth year, I attended a parent –– teacher meeting with Karl. I noticed that his teachers were surprised at the way he had turned himself around. On our way home, he said, “Mum, remember that call from the headmaster last year?” I nodded. “That was me. I thought I’d play a joke but when I heard what you said, it really hit me how much I was hurting you. That’s when I knew I had to make you proud.”

1.Which of the following has the similar meaning as the underlined word “withdrawn” in the  first paragraph?

2.There was silence on the other end of the line because _ _________.

3.Who was it that telephoned Karl’s mother that day?

4.From the passage we can learn that _____________.

A) 根據(jù)首字母或中文提示，寫出正確的單詞。

1.         is the most important thing while we are crossing the road. (安全)

2.The hall has ________ (出口) on its three sides.

3.The  _______(士兵 ) died in the war were honoured as the heroes of the country.

4.He has had his digital camera for _______ (超過) five years.

5.Before the project of Sanya , many ______(移民) left their hometown for their new living places.

B) 根據(jù)句子意思，用括號中所給單詞的適當(dāng)形式填空。

1.Come and warm _________(you) by the fire ,Millie and Jane .

2.------How beautiful the dress looks. ----It must be one of the _________(perform).

3.The kids made so much noise that I  _________ （simple ）can’t fall asleep.  

4.If the robot is _______(correct) used , it will go wrong .

5.I asked her if she was ready to go and she __________(nod)

Not many years ago， a wealthy and rather strange old man named Johnson lived a__1___ in a village in the south of England. He had m___2___a lot of money in trading with foreign countries. When he was seventy-five， he gave ￡ 12，000 to the village s____3___ to buy land and equipment for a children’s playground。

As a result of his kindness， many people came to visit him. A__4_____them was a newspaperman. During their talk， Johnson remarked that he was seventy-five and expected to live to be a h___5___. The newspaperman asked him how he managed to be healthy at seventy—five. Johnson had a sense of h__6___.  He liked whisky and drank some each day. “I have an injection （注射） in my neck e___7__ evening.”he told the newspaperman， thinking of his evening glass of whisky.

The newspaperman did not understand what Johnson m__8___. In his newspaper he r____9___that Johnson was seventy-five and had a daily injection in his neck. Within a week Johnson received thousands of letters from all over Britain， asking him for the s__10___ of his daily injection.

根據(jù)短文內(nèi)容完成下列表格，并將完整單詞寫在答題卡對應(yīng)題號的橫線上。(每空一詞)

Qian Xuesen was a rocket scientist. He was famous all over the world as the father of China’s space technology. He was born in 1911. On October 31, 2009, he passed away peacefully at the age of 98.

When Qian Xuesen was three years old, his father got a job in the Ministry of Education in Beijing, so he and his family came to Beijing. Qian Xuesen graduated from Shanghai Jiao Tong University in 1934. In 1935, he went to the United States for further study. In 1950, he heard that the new China had been founded, he began to try his best to go back to his motherland. Although the American government tried to stop him from his journey, he succeeded in going back in 1955.

Since 1958, Dr. Qian had devoted all his life to China’s aerospace science and technology (航天技術(shù)) and made great achievements. He set up China’s first missile-and-rocket-research institute (導(dǎo)彈、火箭研究機構(gòu)), which later helped start China’s space program. He retired in 1991,the year before China’s manned space program (載人航天計劃) was started. His research formed the basis (基礎(chǔ)) of the Long March CZ-2F rocket that carried astronaut Yang Liwei into orbit in 2003.

Qian Xuesen--- the _____1____of China’s space technology

Photography is about taking photographs. In 1826, a Frenchman named Niepce needed pictures for his business. But he was not a good artist. So he invented a very simple camera. He put it in a window of his house and took a picture of his garden. That was the first photograph.

The next important date in the history of photograph was 1837. That year, Daguerre, another Frenchman, took a picture of his studio. He used a new kind of camera and a different process. In his pictures, you could see everything very clearly, even the smallest details. This kind of photograph was called a daguerreotype.

Soon, other people began to use Daguerre’s process. Travelers brought back daguerreotypes from all around the world. People photographed famous buildings, cities and mountains.

In about 1840, the process was improved. The photographers could take pictures of people and moving things. The process was not simple. The photographers had to carry lots of films and processing equipment(設(shè)備). But this did not stop the photographers, especially in the United States.

Mathew Brady was a well-known American photographer. He took many pictures of famous people. The pictures were unusual because they were very life-like and full of personality. Brady was also the first person to take pictures of war. His 1862 Civil War pictures showed dead soldiers and destroyed cities. They made the war seem more real and more terrible.

In the 1880s, new inventions began to change photograph. Photographers could buy films readymade in rolls(卷). So they did not have to make the film themselves. Also, they did not have to process(沖洗) the film at once. They could bring it back to their studios and develop it later. They did not have to carry lots of equipment. And finally, the invention of the small hand-held camera made photography less expensive.

Photography is also a form of art. Some photographs were not just copies of the real world. They showed ideas and feelings, like other art forms.

Title: The    1  of Photography

目前，網(wǎng)絡(luò)游戲吸引了大量的年輕人，尤其是中學(xué)生的關(guān)注。人們對該游戲的利于弊看法不一，請你根據(jù)提示內(nèi)容用英語寫一篇短文。

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4）不得使用真實姓名和校名等。

Nowdays  net game is popular among young people , especially middle school students.

To ______ surprise, I got an A in my English test.