Kids always have many doubts like: why do people have to die? Are mistakes always bad? Can you be happy and sad at the same time? Children often say that they lie awake at night thinking about things like why the world has the colors as it does, the nature of time and whether dream are real. These are not the kinds of questions that can be answered by googling them or asking Siri.
When children raise these questions, adults tend to respond with explanations that try to resolve the issue, at least temporarily. It’s natural to attempt to comfort a kid who is feeling puzzled by the world. But simple explanations may not be what the child wants. Sometimes, kids simply want to talk about their questions and thoughts.
Most kids start wondering about big questions almost as soon as they learn to speak, and they continue to think about them throughout childhood. Being full of curiosity about things that most adults take for granted, children all over the world are wide open to the mysteries in human life. But as they get older, kids ask questions less and less.
While children do need adult help and guidance, parents don’t always have to be in position of the experts providing the answers. Thinking with children about their bigger questions can make way for a more mutual kind of interactions. Because these kinds of questions tend not to have settled and final answers, discussions about them allow parents and children to wonder together. In this way, adults feel less pressure to be the experts.
Most of children have few long-held assumptions about bigger questions. Kids often suggest original and creative ways of looking at them. Talking with kids about what they are thinking without always feeling compelled to offer answers can help them explore their own concerns and ideas.
1. How will adults probably react when kids ask questions according to the text?| A．Attempt to raise their curiosity. | B．Help surf the Internet for answers. |
| C．Give them simple explanations. | D．Praise their courage and bravery. |
| A．It needs adults’ guidance. |
| B．It starts from a very young age. |
| C．It helps improve their academic performance. |
| D．It makes a difference to their speech. |
| A．Respected. | B．Forced. | C．Inspired. | D．Convinced. |
| A．Why children ask big questions. | B．When parents join in kids’ questions. |
| C．How parents handle kids’ questions. | D．What kinds of questions children raise. |
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【推荐1】Many high school students consider a college education useless. Therefore, they choose not to go to college. If you’re one of them, think again. Here are some reasons why you should go to college and receive a good education there.
Schools and universities are the first sources of knowledge. We take that knowledge later on to build our careers after graduation. More knowledge will be gained after you start working, but without an education, that job will not be within easy reach. Knowledge leads to knowledge.
While limited within the walls of the educational institutions, we openly explore other cultures of the world. We come to know that ours is not the only culture. Other cultures have valuable insights to share, enriching our own at last. Education also makes us want to travel and interact with various cultures, broadening our horizons.
When there’s a downturn (衰退) in the economy, those who attended college will be more, likely to find a new job than those who only finished grade school and have a limited skill set. The more education you have, the more chances you will get to improve the quality of your life as you have a better job and earn a higher salary.
When you’re skillful and knowledgeable, you get to “rub knees” with people of similar backgrounds and tastes. It means a good education leads to excellent networking. Good networking can benefit you a lot in your later life.
A good education makes you a more interesting and confident person. You can talk about ideas and events instead of just listening to other people. An educated person doesn’t gossip, have a preference to discuss ideas and listen to what other people have to say.
1. What is the passage mainly about?| A．Sources of knowledge. |
| B．Benefits of attending college. |
| C．The disadvantages of not being educated. |
| D．The reasons why some people think college useless. |
| A．By giving examples. |
| B．By listing reasons. |
| C．By following directions. |
| D．By offering suggestions. |
| A．Gaining more knowledge. |
| B．Enlarging social networks. |
| C．Becoming a humorous person. |
| D．Experiencing diverse cultures. |
【推荐2】I am a strong believer that if a child is raised with praise, he will learn to love himself and will be successful in his own way.
Several weeks ago, I was doing homework with my son in the third grade and he kept standing up from his chair to go over the math lines. I kept asking him to sit down, telling him that he would concentrate better. He sat but seconds later, as if he didn’t even notice he was doing it, he got up again. I was getting frustrated, but then it hit me. I started noticing his answers were much quicker and accurate (准确的) when he stood up. Could he be more intent (专心的) while standing up?
This made me start questioning myself and what I had been raised to believe. I was raised to believe that a quiet, calm child was a sure way to success. This child would have the discipline (纪律) to study hard, get good grades and become someone important in life.
Now those same people perhaps come to realize that their kids are born with their own sets of DNA and personality traits (特点) and all you can do is loving and accepting them. As parents, throughout their growing years and beyond that, we need to be our kids’ best cheerleaders, guiding them and helping them find their way.
I have stopped asking my son to sit down and concentrate. Obviously, he is concentrating just in his own way and not mine. We need to learn to accept our kids’ ways of doing things. Some way may have worked for me but doesn’t mean we need to carry it through generations. There is nothing sweeter than being individual (个人的) and unique (独一无二的). It makes us free and happy and that’s just the way I want my kids to live their own life.
1. At the beginning, the author tried to keep his son seated in order to make him _____.| A．pay more attention to his study | B．keep silent in the room |
| C．finish his homework on time | D．get right answers |
| A．the importance of parents | B．the old form of education |
| C．the relationship between kids and their parents | D．the good grades of some kids |
| A．We should help kids correct their wrong ways. |
| B．Parents should study their kids’ DNA. |
| C．Kids should be taught to behave themselves. |
| D．Parents should love and accept their kids. |
| A．Study hard and you’ll be successful |
| B．Be friendly to your children |
| C．Children’s success in their own style |
| D．Parents’ help with their children’s study |
【推荐3】Everyone has a burning drive inside of them.
• They read a lot
When Bill Gates and Warren Buffet were asked if they could have one super power, they answered the same thing: to be able to read faster.
• They plan
Highly motivated people don't leave things up to chance.
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Highly motivated people are always working for something. They know what they want, and they search for ways to achieve it.
• They seek advice when needed.
There will be points in everyone's life where they just can’t do it on their own.
| A．They set goals. |
| B．They practise gratefulness all the time. |
| C．It doesn't matter if they're big or small. |
| D．Highly motivated people are always learning. |
| E．For some, they need to learn from others to find it. |
| F．Planning allows people to get things done faster and better. |
| G．Highly motivated people are not afraid to go out and look for help. |
【推荐1】Last week, we talked about Massive Open Online Courses, also called MOOCs. Tens of thousands, or even more, people can take these classes all at once. You can be anywhere in the world to take a MOOC. All you need is a computer and a network connection.
MOOCs add to a tradition of what is known as distance learning. For years, many colleges have offered classes that are taught partly or mostly online. MOOCs are available in subjects like computer science, engineering or mechanics. Can MOOCs in subjects like arts or the humanities be as effective?
Scott Anderson teaches philosophy at the University of British Columbia in Canada. He sees both good and bad sides to MOOCs. “There are parts that will be fine, in so far as mostly when students listen to a lecture, there is no special reason why they need to be physically present to hear and get it. There is certainly no reason why they need to be physically present to get the readings and to think about these things.” Mr. Anderson says increased numbers of students in MOOCs can mean less communication between them and teachers. He says two ways to deal with this are by adding more teachers and setting up online discussion groups.
Lisa Jadwin teaches English and American literature and writing at St. John Fisher College in New York. She says online education has some weaknesses for her subjects. “What’s lost in online education is face-to-face interaction. And the teaching of literature is an interactive face-to-face discipline. And that old-fashioned approach is not going to be unseated very quickly by computer-aided instruction.” Professor Jadwin says some students could learn very well from talks and reading assignments, blogs and discussion groups. But she believes that hybrid courses work best. She describes hybrids as mixing face-to-face course elements with computer-aided teaching and writing projects.
1. What is needed to take a MOOC?| A．Classmates | B．A computer | C．A classroom | D．Communication |
| A．Scott Anderson says MOOC is better than old-fashioned approach. |
| B．Lisa agrees that online education has some weaknesses for all subjects. |
| C．Lisa thinks highly of hybrid courses. |
| D．Many colleges don’t offer classes that are taught partly or mostly online. |
| A．Setting up online discussion groups. | B．Adding more teachers. |
| C．Adopt face-to-face classroom methods | D．Both of A and B. |
| A．ordered | B．removed | C．adopted | D．suggested |
【推荐2】Two hundred years ago, American students went to American schools. Like you, they studied math, spelling and geography. Unlike you, they also studied Greek (希腊语) and Latin (拉丁语). In fact, students spent more than half their time studying Greek and Latin.
The same was true for most students in Europe. Until the seventh century, all educated Europeans knew Latin. It did not matter if they lived in England, Italy, France or Spain. If they were educated, they knew Latin.
During the seventh century, educated Europeans began to study Greek as well as Latin. Greek and Latin had been the leading languages of the ancient Greeks and Romans. All educated Europeans were expected to know these languages.
To educated Europeans, the languages of the Greeks and the Romans were important. The ideas of the Greeks and Romans were also important. People knew that many of their own ideas had come from the Greeks and the Romans. To understand their own culture, they must understand its origin (起源). They knew that those beginnings lay in the classical (古典文学的) world.
Today we have so many things to study that few people have time to learn Greek and Latin. Few of you will study either language in school. Yet the ideas of the Greeks and the Romans are still important to us. These ideas still help to shape western culture today. To understand our own culture, we must understand the culture of the classical world.
1. Two hundred years ago, in American schools _____.| A．there were many educated Greeks | B．Greek and Latin were very popular |
| C．students paid little attention to math | D．students knew little about geography |
| A．the origin of their culture was unknown |
| B．the ideas of the Greeks were unacceptable |
| C．Greek was much more important than Latin |
| D．the Romans had a great influence on their culture |
| A．Japan. | B．Greece. | C．America. | D．China. |
| A．it’s of great value to learn Greek and Latin |
| B．it’s quite difficult to learn Greek and Latin |
| C．the culture of the classical world is useless nowadays |
| D．Western culture is quite different from Greek and Roman cultures |
【推荐3】Current Culture: Is Common Culture Alive?
The digitizing（数字化） and globalizing world is changing the working of culture.As some see it,cities and nations are losing their common culture and their general spirit: people can no longer count on those around them valuing any of the same music or films.Others argue that a common culture is not dying so much as changing forms: it is less and less attached to a particular area and ever more linked to global networks.
The facts lead to the change that anyone can become a cultural producer today,that the culture is increasingly available everywhere you want it, and whenever you want it, not just in the two months after the movie or book came out.Cultural possibilities have multiplied（倍增） as a result, but the change also means fewer cultural moments. It is easy to find the change in terms of loss of diversity of society. So what will it mean if globalization turns us into one wide world culture?
For the enthusiasts（热衷者） of these changes, culture is not about popular artists or books,but centers on platforms like Google and Wikipedia, where every variety of culture brings about the exchange of knowledge and ideas, and makes connections across boundaries（边界）.It is perhaps debatable whether two people who have participated in such websites, but in totally different corners of them,have had a cultural experience in common. In fact, these platforms become very successful with a large crowd of people, who build things together, share information, and forward articles back and forth.
There are still more questions.What does it mean for the future of countries that culture now goes beyond the limits of the nation? Is there anything to defend and preserve（维护） in the passing cultural world, or is that merely to favor pen over printing press, horse over automobile（汽车）?
Up to now a growing quantity of culture has been globally spreading and developing.More individuals than ever have the chances to be makers of culture,even if that means more to choose from and fewer standards to be reached in common.What it means is this strange feeling: that of being more connected than ever,with one-click（点击）access to so much of the cultural harvest around the world, and yet, of being starved for having similar interests and opinions with others,concerned only with ourselves.
1. In Paragraph 1 the author indicates| A．the missing of common culture | B．the cultural diversity among people |
| C．the disadvantage in the digitizing society | D．the double standard of cultural evaluation |
| A．people feel satisfied with the current culture |
| B．enthusiasts look for current culture from famous artists |
| C．disappearance of common culture is a problem to be solved |
| D．common culture may exit into websites that connect the world |
| A．Uninterested. | B．favorable. | C．Uncertain. | D．Critical. |
