2、    Each new school year brings fresh reminders of what educators call the summer learning gap. Some call it the summer learning setback. Put simply, it means the longer kids are out of school, the more they forget. The only thing they seem to gain is weight.

  Most American schools follow a traditional nine-month calendar with winter and spring breaks and about ten weeks of summer vacation. Some schools follow a year-round calendar. They hold classes for about eight weeks at a time, with a few weeks off in between. The National Association for Year-Round Education says there were fewer than 3,000 such schools at last count.

    They were spread among forty-six of the fifty states. But many experts point out that the number of class days in a year round school is generally the same as in a traditional school. Brenda McLaughlin is a research director at the National Centre for Summer Learning at Johns Hopkins University. She says studies of year-round schooling have not found strong learning gains. Lead researcher Paul von Hippel said, "Year round schools don't really solve the problem of the summer learning setback. They simply spread it out across the year. " Across the country, research shows that students from poor families fall farther behind over the summer than other students. Experts say this can be prevented. They note that many schools and local governments offer programmes that can help.

However, calling such programmes "summer school" could be a problem. The director of the summer learning centre at Johns Hopkins, Ikon Fairchild, said research with groups of different parents in Chicago and Baltimore found that almost all strongly disliked the term "summer school". In American culture, the idea of summer vacation is connected to beliefs about freedom and the joys of childhood. The parents preferred other terms like "summer camp , “extra time”and "hands-on learning

51. According to the first paragraph, the summer learning gap_______.

A. helps children to gain weight          

B. leads children to work harder

C. improves children's memories          

D. affects children's regular studies

52. Compared to those in traditional schools, students in the year-round schools_________.

  A. perform better and learn more

  B. have much less time for relaxation every year

  C. have generally the same number of class days

  D. hold more classes and have more weeks off

53. Why do almost all parents dislike the term "summer school"?

  A. They cherish the children's rights and freedom.

  B. They are worried about the quality of the "summer schools".

  C. They want their children to be forced to make up the gap.

  D. They can't afford to pay for studies during the vacation.

54. What would be the best title for this passage?

A. Opening Summer Camps               

B. Forbidding Summer Schools

C. Minding the Summer Learning Gap       

D. Reforming Year-Round Education

55. The underlined word in the first paragraph mostly probably means_______.

A. 耽搁           B延迟           C. 挫折         D退步

1、As a high school coach, I did all I could to help my boys win their games. I 31   as hard for victory as they did. A dramatic incident,   32  , following a game in which I acted as a referee ,  33   my view on victories and defeats. I was   34   a basketball game in New Rochelle, New York, between New Rochelle and Yonkers High.

      New Rochelle was coached by Dan O'Brien and Yonkers   35   Les Beck. The gym was full, and the volume of noise made it   36   to hear. The game was well played and 37   competed. Yonkers was leading by one point as I   38   the clock and discovered there were but 30 seconds left to play.

Yonkers, in  39  of the ball, passed off--shot--missed. New Rochelle   40   --pushed the ball up court -- shot. The ball rolled around the edge and off. The fans shrieked(尖叫着). New Rochelle, the home team, took   41   of the ball again, and tapped it in for what looked like 42 . The noise was deafening. From the 43 I saw that the game was over. I hadn't heard the final buzzer because of the noise. Seeking help in this  44 , I approached the timekeeper, a young man of 17 or so. He said, "Mr. Covino, the buzzer rang as the ball rolled off the rim, 45 the final tap-in. "

         I 46  tell Coach O'Brien the sad news. “Dan, Yonkers won the game. ”  His face  47 . The young timekeeper came up, saying, “I’m sorry, Dad. ” 48 , like the sun coming out from behind a cloud, Coach O'Brien’ s face lit up. “That’s 49 , Joe. You did what you had to do.

         I’ m proud of you,” he said. Turning to 50 , “I want you to meet my son, Joe. ”

35、I can’t leave. She told me that I _____ stay here until she comes back

   A. can           B. must             C. will        D. may

34、---- Do you mind my opening the window? It’s a bit hot in here

---- ______, as a matter of fact.

      A. Go ahead               B. Yes, my pleasure

C. Yes, I do                D. Come on

33、It’s high time you had your hair cut; it’s getting _____.

      A. too much long               B. much too long

C. long too much               D. too long much

32、My friend showed me round the town, ______ was very kind of him 

   A. which         B. that           C. where         D. it

31、They use computers to keep the traffic ______ smoothly. 

   A. being run      B. run          C. to run         D. running

30、If you leave the club, you will not be ______ back in. 

   A. received    B. admitted        C. turned         D. moved学

29、What I need is _____ book that contains _____ ABC of oil painting.学科网

   A. a；不填        B. the; 不填      C. the; an        D. a; the学科网