Question

Elaine Yu Yee-nee, 15, Creative Secondary School

Lockers are designed in a way to hide their contents for a reason. Otherwise, they’d have open fronts like cupboards. Searching students’ lockers would be total invasion(侵犯) of privacy. Having a locker is more than having a place to store your stuff. A locker also gives you the freedom to keep certain things hidden. These can include harmless personal items like diaries, letters and photos. Searching lockers could discomfit students and others might make fun of them.

Yes, lockers are school property(財產). But that doesn’t give schools the right to inspect lockers as they please. While students are using lockers, they have the right to keep their contents private. Teachers could ask for permission to take a look inside a student’s locker and if the student is OK with that, then it would be fine. Searching students’ lockers without their permission would result in the loss of trust.

I doubt that students who have something dangerous to hide, such as weapons or drugs, would put them in their lockers. They would not want to risk being caught so easily.

Giving schools the right to search lockers would not help catch those who commit crimes. But it would certainly create an environment in which students would be embarrassed to have their belongings shown in public for no good reason.

Ronald Ling Pak-ki, 20, University of Hong Kong

Many students see their lockers as personal property. They would never agree that schools should have the right to inspect their lockers. But I think schools have an absolute right to do so.

It is the schools that actually own the lockers. Students just use them to store some of their things safely and conveniently. There are clear rules on what items students can and cannot keep in their lockers. Schools have both the duty and the right to check if students are following the rules.

I don’t think school authorities would decide to search a student’s locker unless they felt the need to do so. They might, for instance, suspect students of hiding drugs. To make sure that the process remains open and fair, only authorized teachers should have the right to search lockers. The search should be carried out in such a way as not to embarrass students in front of others.

1.What are .the two students talking about?

A．How to make sure schools are safe.

B．Whether there are crimes in schools.

C．Whether schools can search students’ lockers.

D．How to establish trust between teachers and students.

2.The underlined word could be replaced by ___.

A．embarrass         B．frighten           C．worry            D．challenge

3.According to Elaine, school lockers ____.

A．are students’ personal property

B．should be changed into cupboards

C．are likely to hold some dangerous things

D．can be searched with students’ permission

4.Which of the following would Ronald agree with?

A．Students won’t hide drugs in lockers.

B．Students use lockers but don’t own them.

C．Students should not put personal things in lockers.

D．Students may forbid teachers to inspect their lockers.

 

Answer 1

【答案】

1.C

2.A

3.D

4.B

【解析】

試題分析：這篇文章是兩個學生討論學校是否有權利看學生的柜子。兩個學生都給出了自己的理由。

1.主旨題：文章分兩部分，一是叫Elaine Yu Yee-nee 的學生認為學校不該擅自看學生的柜子，而Ronald Ling Pak-ki,認為學校有這個權利，可知這篇文章是兩個學生討論學校是否有權利看學生的柜子。選C

2.猜詞題：從后面的句子：others might make fun of them.可知被別人取笑是讓人尷尬的事情。選A。

3.細節題：從文章第三段的句子：I doubt that students who have something dangerous to hide, such as weapons or drugs, would put them in their lockers.可知學生的柜子里可能有危險的東西。選D

4.細節題：從第五段的句子：It is the schools that actually own the lockers. Students just use them to store some of their things safely and conveniently. 可知Ronald認為學生只是有權力使用柜子不是擁有柜子。選B

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點評：這篇文章是兩個學生討論學校是否有權利看學生的柜子。所以分兩部分，答案找起來很容易，細節題居多，答題時在文章找到對應的地方，用筆進行標記，這有利于后期有時間檢查時可以立刻找到答案的位置。仔細理解作者所講的意思，再結合選項，通過排除法和自己對全文的把握，選出正確答案。