Ⅰ.阅读理解

　　Students from Oceanside High School in Rockland will be able to sleep in a little longer from this autumn.

　　Regional School Unit 13 Superintendent (负责人) Lew Collins said during the school's Thursday night meeting that the schedule (时间表) for the schools will be changed. Oceanside East and West will start a half hour later, at 8 a．m. for their new school year.

　　Research has shown that teenagers' brains are often not fully awake at 6：30 a．m. Collins said the schedule, which is used to get students to school for classes that begin at 7：30 a．m., calls for some to get on buses before 6 a．m. to get to school on time. Teachers are having meetings at 6：40 a．m., which is too early, he thinks.

　　Collins visited the high schools in Rockland and asked students when they would like classes to begin. Most of them said 8：00 a．m."I was surprised. I thought they would have said 9：00 or 10：00，" he said.

　　The National Sleep Foundation says on its website that teenagers' biological clocks (生物钟) are designed to stay up later and get up later. The Foundation called for schools to change their schedules, which means a later start as well for elementary students (小学生)．

　　We do not have enough buses to run, since all the high school and elementary school buses run almost at the same time, Collins said. He suggested, "We should buy six more buses and get six more drivers to keep the new schedule working."

　　Elementary school classes in Rockland now start at 8：30 a．m., but will be moved to 8：45 a．m., starting in the autumn."I know this is a problem for working parents, but we will see what we can come up with，" said Jane Brown, a teacher at Bardonia Elementary School."Anyway, I believe if students get more sleep they'll be more ready to learn when classes start，" she added.

语篇解读：本文是说明文。考虑到学生们的身体特点，Rockland的学校将要推迟上课时间。

　　1．A new schedule will be made to ________.

　　A．add more interesting subjects

　　B．help students do better in class

　　C．ask parents to learn about schools

　　D．cut the number of meetings down

　　解析：选B　细节理解题。由第三段中的"teenagers' brains are often not fully awake at 6：30 a．m."和第五段中的"teenagers' biological clocks (生物钟) are designed to stay up later and get up later"可知，制定新时间表的目的是为了符合孩子们的睡眠规律以便他们在课堂上拥有更好的状态，故选B项。

2．One of the problems facing the schools in Rockland is that they will ________.