Unit 1 Extended reading & Project 拓展阅读训练-2022-2023学年高中英语牛津译林版（2020）必修第一册

Unit 1 Back to school Period Ⅲ Extended reading & Project 拓展阅读训练 一、阅读理解 A Students from Oceanside High School in Rockland will be able to sleep a little longer from this autumn. The director of Regional School Lew Collins said during the school’s Thursday night meeting that the schedule（时刻表）for the schools will be changed. Oceanside East and West will start half an hour later, at 8 a. m. for the 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 go 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 a. m. “I was surprised. I thought they would have said 9:00 or 10:00,” he said. The National Sleep Foundation says on it