What a newspaper includes is decided by its editors. The managing editor decides which stories are newsworthy and gives reporters their tasks. To an editor, there are two kinds of news: hard news, such as the election (选举) of a president, and soft news. Soft news includes stories about a new dance craze, a beautiful historic building, or an interesting person. The soft news fills whatever space is left after the hard news is put into the newspaper space. There is also public service news to fit in－information about meetings and lectures, free health programs, or changes in a local library’s hours. The managing editor decides how important a story is. If a story is very important, it is marked for a headline on the front page. Less important stories appear farther back in the paper. The story editor takes a story and decides to “boil or trim it”. If the editor decides to boil a story, it becomes front-page article.Depending on the size of a paper, there may be a sports editor, a business editor or an art editor. On a small weekly paper, an editor may cover two or more of these areas. Once all the stories are written, they are given to a copy editor, who corrects any mistakes and fits the articles into the newspaper’s format(版式).The makeup editor, with the managing editor, usually dec ides how the paper will look. The editor’s job is to decide whether a page will look. This editor’s job is to deicide whether a page will carry two stories and four ads or six stories and one ad. Editors may rewrite or redesign many of the pages as more stories come from the pressroom.61. An example of hard news is _______A. the election of a presidentB. a story about a historic buildingC. a new fashion in clothesD. information about health programs62. Where a news story is put in the newspaper depends on___________A. its lengthB. its styleC. its importanceD. its title63. What does the underlined word “trim” in the second paragraph mean?A. Reduce in sizeB. Increase in lengthC. Beautify in appearanceD. Change in shape64. Correcting the mistakes of all the articles is the work of_______A. makeup editorsB. copy editorsC. managing editorsD. business editors65. What’s the purpose of the passage?A. To persuade people to work as editors.B. To tell the readers how editors are educated.C. To introduce some famous editors.D. To show how a newspaper is made.Kids are natural scientists. That may be why they ask so many questions.Y ounger kids take up science and math with amazing enthusiasm, yet as they get older they often lose their excitement. Children look on scientific exploration as play, but as they get older they start to connect it with big heavy books, long worksheets and a lot of really confusing words.What a tragedy! We had their attention, they were listening, they were participating, they were LEARNING and then we lost it to boredom.We need our kids to play more. More play brings up basic scientific concepts(概念)。

Being familiar with basic scientific concepts brings about exploration which leads to research. Once they are searching, they are completely into the learning.’My boys built a small 9-hole golf course next to our driveway one day. It was a great product of science. They dug out the holes and channels to guide the golf ball. They played with architecture(建筑学) with a series of pipes they had found in the garage. They tested speed and momentum(动量)by creating one of the holes across the driveway. They experienced biology when deciding which front yard plants could be used as a part of the course and which needed to be pulled up.If I had sent them out to the yard to build a 9-hole golf course, it would have never happened. It was because it was their idea that it worked. I try to tell them some of the concepts after the fact. When they ask about something, I try to relate it back to something they have built, experienced, or felt. I try to give them a vocabulary around what they already know.An afternoon can change the way kids look at the world. Not bad for a day of play.61. What can we learn about kid’s attitudes towards science from the first three paragraphs?A. Kids think they are born to work as scientists.B. Y ounger kids begin to learn science on purpose.C. Older kids often link science with boring things.D. Children’s taking an interest in science is a tragedy.62. In what order does children’s play develop into learning according to the writer?A.Play→Doing exploration→Making serious scientific research→Getting familiar with basicscientific conceptsB.Play→Doing exploration→Getting familiar with basic scientific concepts→Making seriousscientific researchC.Play→Getting familiar with basic scientific concepts→Doing exploration→Making seriousscientific researchD.Play→Making serious scientific research→Getting familiar with basic scientific concepts→Doing exploration63. By building the small golf course, the writer’s boys learnt about all of the following things except______.A. speedB. momentumC. biologyD. agriculture64. If the writer had forced the boys to build a small golf course, they might have______A. asked her some related scientific conceptsB. made a better golf course than the one they had builtC. asked their friends to help them with the workD. got bored and refused to follow the writer’s directions65. In which part of a newspaper is the article probably included?A. Architecture.B. EducationC. HealthD. Sports.。