Ⅲ. Different school life.
Linda talked her ideas about school uniform.
What do students hate most about school life? The homework? The exams? For many students, it’s the school uniform they have to wear in school.
Many schools ask their students to wear school uniforms every day. They believe that a student in a school uniform is more likely to take school seriously. Now people can bring both discipline and fashion together in the uniform. So, many schools decide to choose designers to turn their school uniforms into more trendy ones.
Robert Kin, headmaster of Bethany High School, agrees that the students should look smart in uniforms in order to show their personalities. “The students are identified by their uniforms outside the school. That’s why we invited a famous designer to design our uniforms.”
On the other side, there are kindergartens that do not treat it as a must.
Whatever the reasons are, designing school uniforms is becoming a trend now.
Write down the meanings of the underlined words and make up sentences with them.
1. discipline _________
2. personality _________
3. identify _________

Linda introduced school life in America. Read the passage and do the exercises.
American middle schools are quite different from those in China. In America, at the beginning of the term, students must select their courses and teachers first.
Selecting is very important for students’ grades in America. So at the first term, don’t select too many courses, or you’ll feel very nervous and it may influence your study. Then you have to ask for some teaching plans. There is some information about subjects, time arranging, marks and textbooks. At the same time, you must choose the teachers. Different teachers have different teaching methods. If the teacher is called “killer” by the last grade, many students will give up choosing him. Because this kind of teacher will give too much homework and too many exams.
There is another thing after you select the course and the teacher. How to buy textbooks makes each student feel hard. The textbooks in America are very expensive. Each copy is about 30. In order to save money, many students would like to buy secondhand textbooks, and some students usually borrow textbooks from the school library. You must get enough ready before class. In class, discussing is very important. The teacher encourages you to ask questions or show your own ideas. They don’t usually ask you to sit well, but allow you to sit or stand everywhere you like. They don’t give you much homework to do. You can learn some knowledge and do exercises by yourself. So in American schools, you must do almost all things by yourself.

4. Many students in America buy used textbooks because _________.
5. Translate the underlined sentence “or you’ll feel very nervous and it may influence your study” into Chinese.
_________
6. Translate the underlined sentence “The teacher encourages you to ask questions or show your own ideas.” into Chinese.
_________

1.纪律
2.个性
3.区分
4.the textbooks in America are very expensive/they want to save money
5.否则你会感觉很紧张，并且它有可能影响你的学习。
6.老师鼓励你提出问题或展示你自己的观点。