Your children’s teacher will be providing extra time for test preparation. This school year’s test will be held on January 8 and 9. The test preparation time is open to all students, and we strongly encourage your children to attend. This year we are changing the time for our test preparation: it will be on Thursday mornings from 8:10 to 8:50. This helps children who ride the bus and cannot stay for the after-school period. It also helps avoid conflicts with after-school activities. Danielle and Marina will be working with the recent new test takers 6 days on the following Thursdays: 15 th , Nov; 29 th , Nov; 6 th , Dec; 13 th , Dec.; 20 th , Dec. and 3 rd , Jan. Besides the test preparation lectures on these dates, teachers are already putting test preparation into their usual courses. We are finding that we can help our students to be both skillful and whole-hearted readers and test takers — after all, we all know that the best test preparation is good reading and writing training. What can you do at home? Again, the best and most effective test preparation for the ELA test is reading and more reading. The research is quite clear — students who do well in the tests are those who are good readers. Reading not only builds reading ability, it also helps build confidence — important for successful test taking! But do discourage your children from spending too much time on books that are too hard or even a bit too hard. Children best develop comprehension skills when they are reading books just right for them (too easy doesn’t hurt here either). Finally, on Friday, December 7, we will have a morning lecture on the ELA. Please pay attention! 小题1:The text is mainly about ________. A．how teachers will provide more time for test preparation B．the reason why time for test preparation will be changed C．how teachers have put test preparation into their usual courses D．test preparation information that parents should know about 小题2:The time for test preparation has been changed to _________. A．make it more convenient for the students to attend B．help the new test-takers have more time to read C．avoid disagreement in time between different years of students D．avoid conflicts between preparation time and the usual courses 小题3:From the passage, we know that ________. A．Danielle will help students prepare for different tests B．the school year test will be on a Tuesday C．all the children must take part in the test preparation D．the students can learn how to write well in the test preparation 小题4: Parents should _____ at home. A．prepare good meals for their children B．read more books with their children C．ask their children not to spend too much time on reading D．encourage their children to read more books fit for them 小题5:Why did the school encourage all the students to take part in the test preparation? A．Test preparation is what they always do. B．The students will learn what will be included in the final exam. C．Test preparation helps students to be more interested in reading and confident. D．The test is a long way off and there are better things to do.