Scope: Recently your school board proposed moving the school start time from 7:50a.m. to 7:20 a.m. What was your reaction to this?

Jilly Dos Santos: I was getting only four to six hours of sleep a night and I was late for school a lot. With the new start time, I’d have to wake up even earlier. After we heard about the proposal, a teachers said to my class, “If you don’t like it, why don’t you do something about it?”

Scope: What did you do?

Jilly: I organized a group of students to speak to the school board.

Scope: What did you do to prepare for the meeting?

Jilly: I wanted to focus our presentation on why having an earlier start time was unhealthy. There is scientific research about teens and sleep. I learned that during your teen years, because of a change in hormones(激素), your body begins to change. You start to want to go to bed later. School starts the same time it always has, so getting enough sleep becomes difficult. I realized there wasn’t something wrong with my time management or me; the way I was feeling had a physical and biological basis.

Scope: How did it go?

Jilly: About 30 students came to support me, and the board liked that I didn’t get emotional and just provided the evidence. Two months later, an 8:55 a.m. start time became official. The board decided to make the start time later instead of earlier.

Scope: What has changed since the later start time?

Jilly: I don’t need to stay up an extra hour or two at night, because I can get work done in the morning. I’ve also been late a lot less. And this year, there are more morning clubs and more people going to them.

1.What can be a suitable title for the text?

A. Talking With the School Board? Cheer Up!

B. An Interview on a Proposal

C. A Dialogue between Scope and Jilly

D. Moving the Start Time Earlier? Say No!

2.Jilly’s teacher seemed to encourage the students____

A. to talk with the school board

B. to get their work done in time

C. to voice their opinions bravely

D. to take action to support the proposal

3.What does the underlined word “it” refer to?

A. Jilly body clock

B. The scientific research

C. The meeting Jilly organized

D. Jilly’s secret for time management

4.How did Jilly succeed in persuading the school board?

A. By showing scientific evidence

B. By putting forward a new proposal

C. By telling different students’ stories

D. By presenting her personal experience

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