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Starting high school means many changes in your life.Most teenagers look forward to the first day of high school, but still feel a little bit nervous.In order to make your high school life easier, you can follow these tips.
Learn all you can about your first day before the first day.Take part in some activities that are held at the school for new students to know the school better.If parents are invited to these activities, take yours with you.Carefully look over all the materials you receive.Be sure you know where the school's buildings are.
Get the things you will need for class.Buy the things suggested on your teachers' supply lists and place your materials for each class separately.
Keep up with your high school workload(工作量)．If you find you're not doing well in a subject, make use of afterschool study groups or ask your teacher to help you with your schoolwork.Consider private tutoring to get you through a difficult time.
There're more extracurricular(课外的)activities in high school than in middle school, such as clubs, music and theater groups, student government, and sports teams.Make friends and be seen at such school activities.Join a club or other organizations to meet people and develop friendships.Ask someone in school activities if you don't know how.This is a good time to do what you like doing and an opportunity to try new things.Who said school has to be all work and no play?
Since you'll attend more activities in high school than in middle school, you'll have to learn how to manage you time.
【语篇解读】 作者给了我们一些建议，告诉我们如何才能更轻松地度过高中生活。
1．The writer wrote this passage to ________.
A．advise us to study hard in high school
B．tell us how to live an easier life in high school
C．show that we may live a hard life in high school
D．explain why there will be many changes in high school
解析：选B 主旨大意题。通读全文可知，作者主要给了我们一些建议，告诉我们如何更轻松地度过高中生活，故选B项。
2．In Paragraph 2, the writer suggests that we should ________.
A．ask our parents to walk us to school
B．ask other students about our high school
C．prepare all the things we need for our classes
D．learn about our high school well before attending it
解析：选D 细节理解题。根据第二段第一句“ Learn all you can about your first day before the first day.”以及最后一句“Be sure you know where the school's buildings are.”可知，作者建议我们在去上高中前充分了解我们要去上的那所学校。
3．In Paragraph 5, the writer wants to tell us that ________.
A．every coin has two sides
B．the early bird catches the worm
C．where there is a will, there is a way
D．all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy
解析：选D 推理判断题。根据第五段的“Who said school has to be all work and no play？”可知，作者建议我们多参加些课外活动，不要只知道学习，故选D项。
