Ⅲ.综合运用

Ban or Not to Ban？

At the end of last year,the French government announced a ban on students using mobile phones in schools.The new law will a__1__phones to be brought into school,but prohibit their use even during breaks.

In 2015,the mayor of New York,Bill de Blasio,lifted a 10-year ban on phones on campus.The aim was to“e__2__parents to stay in touch with their children”.

The debate about whether students can bring their mobile phones to schools is ongoing in the U.K.More than 90 p__3__of teenagers in the U.K.have mobile phones.A recent study found s__4__very interesting.In schools where mobile phones were banned,the test scores of 16-year-olds improved by 6.4 percent.It is the equivalent of a__5__five days to the school year.

There is no law in the U.K.prohibiting phone usage in schools and the Department for Education says it is a decision for each school.At Shiplake College in Henley-on-Thames,for e__6__,any pupil caught with a mobile phone on them between 8∶15 a.m.and 5∶45 p.m.is given a detention.At Henbury School in Bristol,the policy is r__7__simple—“We see it,we hear it,you lose it,”said the head teacher,Clare Bradford.At Brighton College,mobile phone use,by children in years 7,8 and 9,is banned；year 10 pupils have three days a week with no phones and year 11 pupils,one day a week.

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