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Please enjoy some beautiful articles about high school:Sudbury Valley SchoolTo most of us, school means classes, teachers, schedules, grades and tests. But for the children at Sudbury Valley School in Massachusetts, school is very different.Firstly, there are no lessons. All the children, aged between 4 and 19, do whatever they want. There are no teachers—only “staff members”. The idea behind this is that you do not need to make children learn, because children want to learn anyway. “You do not need to say to a three-year-old, …Go explore your environment.‟, You can‟t stop them!” says Daniel Greenberg, a founder of the school. “But if you make children do what you want all day, they will lose all taste for learning.”At Sudbury Valley School, you will permit children to talk, read, paint, cook, work on Computers, study French, play the piano, climb trees, or just run around. Two boys spent three years just fishing!The other way that Sudbury Valley School is different is that the children can decide the rules. Every week, there is a school meeting where both children and staff have one vote each--- even the four-year-olds. They decide the school rules, how to spend the school budget, and even which staff they want and do not want anymore.When the school first opened in 1968, people said it would never work. But today, the school has 200 students, and 80% of its students go on to college. Even the two boys who went fishing all the time have successful careers today. One of them is a musician and the other is a computer scientist.Question: What impresses you most about this valley school?Good Study HabitsGood students always have good study habits. Those good study habits can help you achieve high grades. Work hard to develop any study habit you haven‟t got yet. It won‟t be only an important personal achievement but it‟ll also be a great satisfaction for your parents. Here are some helpful study habits.Try not to do too much study at a time. If you try to do too much study at a time, you’ll get tired and your study won‟t be very effective（有效的）. Space the work you have to do over shorter periods of time. Taking short breaks will restore your energy.Try to study at the same time each day. Study at the same time each day and establish a routine, just like sleeping and eating. When a scheduled study time comes up during the day, you‟ll be mentally prepared to study.Set specific goals. Goals will help you stay focused and monitor your progress. You must be very clear about what you want to accomplish during your study time.Review your notes before beginning an assignment. Reviewing your notes can help you make sure you‟re doing an assignment correctly. Besides, your notes may include information that will help you complete an assignment.Tell your friends not to call you during your study time. If your friends call you during your study time, you will be interrupted. So turn off your cell phone when you study.Review your schoolwork over the weekend. This will help you be ready to go on Monday morning when another school week begins.Question: Which study habit do you think is the most important what study habit do you think you lack?High SchoolIn America, after middle school comes high school which includes grades 9 through 12. Students are required to take certain subjects like English, social studies, math, science, and physical education. In addition, they choose among elective subjects, to complete their high school education. Electives include subjects in technology, music, art, and foreign languages.Each student in the school has their own locker for books and personal items. This convenience saves students from carrying textbooks, and allows students a small space they can decorate with posters and favorite objects.Cheating in any form is strictly prohibited in American schools. And I fact, high school students usually don‟t cheat, A student caught in plagiarism(抄袭), forgery（伪造）, or copying another student faces severe discipline（惩罚）, even expulsion（开除）.School ActivitiesEach school holds certain yearly activities for the entire school body, such as homecoming（返校节）, prom （舞会）night , holiday celebrations, etc.SportsMost high schools have at least one sports team that competes in local events, and all students areencouraged to be involved in athletics. School often offer football, baseball and softball, basketball, volleyball, tennis and soccer. Some may even have sports like golf, swimming, gymnastics and cross-country skiing.JobsMany high school students have part-time jobs by the age of 15 or 16, some even earlier. Their first jobs are often baby-sitting or cutting lawns, but later they will likely get a job at a fast-food restaurant, video store, or clothing shop.DrivingSixteen years old is legal driving age in most states, and students usually want to own a car as soon as they can. Some parents allow their children to drive a family vehicle, and may even buy a car as a graduation present. Others prefer that their sons and daughters earn enough to purchase a used vehicle. Regardless, many teenagers feel it‟s a necessity to own a car, and will do whatever it takes to be able to drive.Question: What do you think of cheating in the exam and have you ever cheated in the exam?My dream high schoolWhat‟s Senior High? Well, I‟ve th ought about this question many times. The moment I got the permit of No.1 Senior High, I was so excited; a lively picture appeared in my mind, a beautiful school with tall plants and various（不同的）kinds of flowers, modern teaching buildings with the best equipment, new classrooms with TVs and computers… A completely new school life is waiting for me!But if you ask me what my ideal high school is now, my answer will be quite different, my ideal high school does not necessarily have modern buildings or best equipment, but a place where classmates can get on well with each other, where teachers are knowledgeable（有知识的）and friendly, a life when after a whole day of hard work, I can relax myself with different kinds of sports and activities… where I realize my dream and enjoy the sweetness（甜蜜）and bitterness（苦涩）of life, where I can express myself, show my talents, and a place where I can not only get knowledge but also be able to improve my ability.And I think I should play a totally different role from that when I was in junior high. Teachers not only teach us knowledge but most importantly teach us the way to learn by ourselves, way to manage our lives… All this add up, probably that‟s what my ideal high school is like.But still, I believe I play the most important part. I must try my best to get along with all that I have and make more progress.It‟s said tha t life is a box of chocolate, so I do hope my senior high life is not only full of flowers and success, but I can experience bitterness at the same time. I know success makes my dreams wonderful but failure makes me grow. I will try my best.Please recite Paragraph 2A new measureWhen Klyce‟s alarm clock sounds at 5:45 a.m., the 17-year-old rolls over and turns it off. Without the second alarm clock that goes off at 6, she might have a much harder time getting to Kennedy High School in Fremont, Calif for the 7:35 a.m. first bell. When she‟s running late, she goes without breakfast and doesn‟t do her hair. Research shows that when teens hit puberty(青春期), they need 9 hours of sleep a day on average. Now a growing numbe r of schools are pushing back the morning bell so class time and students‟ energy are better balanced.“The good side is, students are more awake,” says principal(校长) Amy McNamara of Logan High in New Haven Unified, which pushed back its morning bell to 8:40 in 2007. But a few parents complain that sports and ext ra courses can go into dinnertime, and in winter, into the dark. “That is a worry,” she says. “It‟s not perfect, but you can‟t please everybody.”It sounds clear: students don't test well early in the morning. In one Illinois study, every high school senior performed better when tests were given in the afternoon than in the morning. But most important tests, like the SAT, starts at 8 a.m.“Their brains just aren‟t awake then,” and Sullivan, a childre n sleep specialist at Stanford Sleep Medicine Center. “Young people are in great need of sleep.”Teens don‟t necessarily stay up later when school starts later. In studies in Kentucky and Minnesota, when schools pushed the bell by an hour, high school students slept an extra 30 minutes per night.More sleep means fewer sleepy drivers, suggests another study. Car accidents dropped by 16.7% among students in a Kannas county after schools there moved their start time forward by one hour.1). The first paragraph shows the phenomenon (现象)that ________________________________.2). The measure many schools have taken is __________________________________________.3). The good sides of the measure are :。