his love for journalism."可知，杰克·史密斯打小就期待着送报纸的来，读了报纸以后被报纸的设计及内容深深吸引，因此对新闻行业产生了兴趣。

　　2．Why did Jack Smith give up being a civil engineer?

　　A．He wasn't interested in it.

　　B．He wanted to learn business.

　　C．Paul Burnett inspired him to be a reporter.

　　D．His math and physics weren't good enough.

　　解析：选D　推理判断题。根据第四段中的"... until someone told him the amount of math and physics involved"可知，杰克·史密斯因为数学和物理不够好，因此放弃了当工程师的想法。

　　3．What did the students probably learn about journalism?

　　A．It is hard and boring.

　　B．It requires many talents.

　　C．It should focus on important events.

　　D．It deserves people's love and hard work.

　　解析：选D　细节理解题。根据倒数第二段可知，杰克·史密斯向学生介绍说看起来没意思的故事可能跟头版的文章一样重要。而新闻这个行业需要努力工作，需要人们热爱它。

　　4．The last paragraph suggests that ________.

　　A．Smith tried many different jobs

　　B．journalism mostly gave Smith pleasure

　　C．Smith loves being a journalist from his heart

　　D．Smith would have chosen a more worthy job

　　解析：选C　推理判断题。根据最后一段可知，杰克·史密斯对新闻行业由衷热爱，从未后悔过没有选择其他职业。

　　B

　　Does your local high school have a student newspaper?

　　Only 1 in 8 of New York's public high schools has student newspapers - and many of those are published just a few times a year. A few more are online, which can leave out poorer schools.

Rebecca Dwarka, an 18­year­old senior who works for her student paper, said, "Facebook is a new way of finding out what happened. Nobody wants to actually sit down and read a whole article about it, which makes a 'whole article' sound a little like a long