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When Bill de Blasio ran for New York City mayor last year, he promised to end a controversial (有争议的), citywide cell-phone ban(禁令)in public schools, which is not equally enforced in all schools. Now, under his leadership, the city is preparing to end the ban. It will be replaced by a policy that allows phones inside schools but tells students to keep them packed away during class.
Many schools have a rule about enforcing the ban that says, “If we don't see it, we don't know about it.” That means teachers are OK with students bringing in cell phones, as long as they stay out of sight and inside bags and pockets.
But at the 88 city schools with metal detectors, die ban has been strictly enforced. The detectors were installed to keep weapon out of schools,but the scanners(扫描器)can also detect cell phones. So students at these schools must leave their phones at home or pay someone to store it for them.
The ban was put into place in 2007 under mayor Michael Bloomberg. Ending the ban will also likely end an industry that has sprung up near dozens of the schools that enforce the ban. Workers in vans(厢式货车)that resemble food tracks store teens' cell phones and Other devices for a dollar a day,
Critics of the ban say cell phones are important safety devices for kids during an emergency. They also say that enforcement of the ban is uneven and discriminatory. Where the ban is enforced, it puts a disadvantage on students who can't afford to pay to store their phones.
Before putting an official end to the cell-phone ban, city education officials are working on creating a new policy. It will include rules about not using the phones during class or to cheat on tests.
1. Which of the following is the main idea of the passage?
A. New York City will give financial aid to poor students.
B. New York City plans to restrict cell phone use in libraries.
C. New York City plans to install metal detectors in all public schools.
D. New York City will soon end a ban on cell phones in schools.
2. Students pay___________ a day to leave their cell phones in a van parked near their school.
A. a dollar
B. two dollars
C. five dollars
D. ten dollars
3. Metal detectors were installed in 88 city schools, mainly to keep ___________ out of schools.
A. cell phones
B. weapons
C. alcohol
D. drugs
4. The word discriminatory in Paragraph 5 probably means ___________.
A. necessary
B. tough
C. strict
D. unfair
5. According to the passage, which of the following statements is TRUE?
A. After the cell-phone ban is ended, students can use their phones during class.
B. The cell-phone ban is equally enforced in all public schools.
C. The cell-phone ban was put into place in 2008 under Mayor Bill de Blasio.
D. A phone-storage industry has appeared outside the 88 metal-detector campuses.
Deep inside a mountain near Sweetwater in East. Tennessee is a body of water known as the Lost Sea. It is listed
by the Guinness Book of Would Records as the world’s largest underground lake. The Lost Sea is part of an
extensive and historic cave system called Craighead Caverns.
The caverns have been known and used since the days of the Cherokee Indian nation. The cave expands into
a series of huge rooms from a small opening on the side of the mountain. Approximately one mile from the
entrance, in a room called “The Council Room,” many Indian artisfacts have been found. Some of the items
discovered include pottery, arrowheads, weapons, and jewelry.
For many years there were persistent rumors of a large underground lake somewhere in a cave, but it was not
discovered until 1905. In that year, a thirteen-year-old boy named Ben Sands crawled through a small opening
three hundred feet underground. He found himself
in a large cave half filled with water.
Today tourists visit the Lost Sea and ride far out onto it in glass-bottomed boats powered by electric motors.
More than thirteen acres of water have been mapped out so far
and still no end to the lake has been found. Even though teams of divers have tried to explore the Lost Sea,
the full extent of it is still unknown.
The Lost Sea is unique because it is ________.
A. part of a historical cave system
B. the biggest underground lake in the world
C. listed in the Guinness Book of World Records
D. the largest body of water in Tennessee
He kept chewing the inside his lip a lot, _____ into complete silence.
A. freeze
B. freezing
C. frozen
D. being frozen
The word “around” in paragraph 1 means______.
A. on all sides
B. in every direction
C. near
D. in existence
According to the passage,quicksand is usually found______.
A. on hillsides
B. far inland
C. near water
D. on prairies
--- Is there a bank near here?
--- __________.
A. No, I don’t like it
B. Yes. I saw him this morning
C. Yes. There is one just down the road
Which sentence in the second paragraph is the topic sentence?
A. Lyne was a headmaster.
B. A lot of kids had chains around their necks.
C. I was constantly telling them to put inside their shirts.
D. They were house keys.
The expression "the cause of the disturbance" in paragraph 2 refers to______.
A. the large tidal wave
B. the powerful tidal pull
C. the star coming near the sun
D. one of the sun's planets
To prevent accidents, a drivers Ed car______.
A. has a sign inside it
B. has two sets of brakes
C. can't run very fast
D. is big enough to hold five persons
Please carefully read the emergency evacuation notice on the inside door of your bedroom.
A.请仔细阅读贴在卧室内的应急疏散告示
B.请浏览一下贴在卧室内的应急疏散告示
C.请密切注意贴在墙上的应急疏散告示
D.请仔细阅读应急疏散的通知