It’s easy to find reasons to allow some physical punishments. One issue is that many parents find it very difficult to abandon physical punishment completely. Parents argue that this was the way they were brought up and that it didn’t do any harm to them. They believe that for the child’s sake they have the right to discipline the child in any way they consider fit, including using some physical punishments. The other one is that physical punishment can be quick and effective. There is not much point reasoning with a screaming child in the supermarket.
However, there are several reasons why we should stop using physical punishment. One point is that most parents are not trained to deal with misbehaving children. They don’t have enough resources or choices to handle the situation. As a result, they immediately react by hitting the child even if there are other solutions to the problem. Another point is that unless people are challenged or forced to change their belief, they may keep following negative habits. An example is seat belt use —now most people wear seat belts without thinking, while years ago the idea of using seat belts was strange to most people. In the same way, banning physical punishment will force people to change their habits.
In conclusion, parents have to change some of their belief and ideas about how children should be raised. It is possible to avoid the use of physical force, and doing so will help us move closer to the dream of removing violence from our society.
1. According to the first paragraph, many parents think that ____________.
A.they are free to use physical punishment on their children |
B.most of the children behave badly in their daily life |
C.they have changed their attitudes towards their children |
D.physical punishment is effective to educate their children |
A.they are disappointed with their children |
B.they were brought up just in the same way |
C.they don’t want to hurt their children badly |
D.they don’t know what to do with their children |
A.most people are used to wearing seat belts |
B.it’s not difficult to change some negative habits |
C.seat belts are really very necessary and useful |
D.people won’t change their old habits unless forced |
A.talk about a ban on using physical punishment |
B.tell us we should educate our children in other ways |
C.advise parents to give up using physical punishment |
D.suggest physical punishment should be used at home |
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【推荐1】We see hundreds of logos on signs, vehicles, websites, and even on the clothes we are dressed in. All these logos are intended to attract our attention.
Researchers gave 85 students a simple assignment to draw the logo of a famous company from memory. Surprisingly, only one student could make it.
Logos are typically designed to be simple and easy to recognize with a quick glance. Yet the frequent exposure to these logos can actually make our brains overlook them. This process is known as attention saturation (注意力饱和)
Nowadays, logos are everywhere. A fancy design or a thoughtful (体贴的) colour combination may be a good start for a logo concept , but there are some other things to consider.
A.When we see some logos over and over again, |
B.People will know the product behind the logo. |
C.This may be inspiring to logo designers. |
D.So why is it so difficult for people to recall the details? |
E.They also help us remember a product or service connected with them. |
F.Our brains actually signal us to ignore information we don’t think we will need to remember. |
G.Logo designers need to know that people will only remember what they believe is worthwhile. |
【推荐2】In the subway station, I notice a black teenage boy waiting for the train, sitting on a railing(栏杆) just in front of a moving escalator(扶梯). It’s a hot evening; there is no air in the station. This black kid is just sitting there, settled on the railing, and I’m just standing there about 10 feet away looking for the faraway lights of the oncoming train. Then suddenly a white police officer is asking the kid for identification. The kid turns a little annoyed and asks what he’s been bothering about. The officer doesn’t explain. The kid pulls out some I.D. and hands it to the officer who looks at it and then barks out a demand for something with an address on it, a driver’s license.
Unwillingly, the kid pulls out a second piece of identification. The officer looks at it and tells the kid to come with him. Nothing I have seen or heard explains the officer’s strict approach or why the kid is being led away.
I get up to the officer and politely ask what this guy did and where he is taking him. He looks at me like I’m armed and crazy and tells me that it’s none of my business and to stay out of this.
“Could I please take down your badge(警徽) number, sir, as I’d like to report all this,” I say.
“Take down my badge number and then you show me a piece of identification. What are you, some lawyer?”
I copy down his badge number and then show him my driver’s license, asking, “Could you please tell me what this is all for?”
Looking at me over and again asking if I’m a lawyer, he tells me he’s taking the kid in for blocking the escalator and me in for “obstructing a police action.” Another black man hearing all this asks what’s going on and the officer gets very nervous. So I decide to go with him to his office. Then the officer gives his version of what happened and I politely interrupt to explain that the kid was in no way blocking the escalator traffic and that I was in no way “obstructing a police action”, not adding that I thought the way the officer handling the situation was racist and unnecessarily strict.
After this experience in the police station, I’m still wondering whether a well-dressed white man will be faced with a sharp command for identification for sitting on an escalator railing waiting for a train? If a bystander does want to get involved and inquire about an apparently unfair arrest, is a policeman’s only response a second arrest? Will our police officers always be seen by black kids as evils? Is my charge with racism too strong?
1. What is the black teenager doing at the train station?A.He is blocking the escalator. |
B.He is escaping the police. |
C.He is waiting for the train. |
D.He is damaging the escalator. |
A.He is a racist. |
B.He is not afraid to get involved. |
C.He is black. |
D.He has a sense of justice. |
A.The black boy doesn’t obey the police officer. |
B.Subway stations are good places to hang about. |
C.The white policeman thinks ill of the black teenager. |
D.Situations like this in the passage will never change. |
A.blame. | B.forbid. | C.prevent. | D.defend. |
【推荐3】In my class in high school, there was a girl who was considered the most unpopular. No one actually knows how this exclusion came from, but we all followed it for no reason at all. One day after lunch, we girls sat on the track field, talking about things that happened in our lives. Someone brought her up, and soon the topic transformed to laughing at the funny hairstyle of her, the stupid way she walked and....I felt extremely uncomfortable but kept silent, because I didn't want to be the one “supporting” the common enemy. After all, it's just a short gossip time among a trusted group of friends; why should I bring unnecessary tension?
Suddenly, one of my friends pointed her finger towards somewhere behind me. All of us turned around and saw that exact girl, hand still in the air, with a twisted (扭曲的) look on her face. She lowered her hand in slow movement, then turned around and ran off. For a second, I wanted to stand up and chase her down to tell her that no one meant what they said, and that she is an amazing person being who she is. But my legs felt so heavy, I didn't want to make a fool out of myself - why bother taking care of the class clown (小丑)? People would think that I was crazy as well!
A few weeks later, the teacher told us that a classmate dropped out of school - it was that girl. Her parents told the school that it was the peer pressure that made her want to leave. The teacher wanted to know who the bully (霸凌) was. Again, no one spoke a word. Perhaps it was exactly this cold, hard silence that drove her away. I certainly did not raise my hand. I had never even said anything bad about her; it was my friends who loved to make fun of her every day. Surely, I didn't bully her physically or with my language, but I kept silent when others did. By failing to stand up for her and offering her support, I was giving agreement, which made others think that it was okay to mistreat her. Perhaps if I had realized I was wrong earlier - instead of convincing myself that I had nothing to do with her leaving, I wouldn't have to bear the burden of heavy shame on my shoulders.
1. What does the underlined word “exclusion” in paragraph 1 refer to??A.transformation | B.adaptation |
C.rejection | D.association |
A.The author was mad at her friends at that time |
B.The author's leg was broken while chasing the girl |
C.The group friends think it crazy to be fooled. |
D.The girl heard what the author's friends said about her |
A.she wanted to follow the flow | B.she was prevented by the group friends |
C.she didn't want to turn against friends | D.she worried about others' reaction |
A.She will not turn a blind eye to it | B.She will stand up for her group friends |
C.She will make fun of the group | D.She will keep silent and walk away |
【推荐1】As the underwater robot OceanOneK carefully navigated toward the upper deck railing of the sunken Italian steamship Le Francesco Crispi about 500 m below the Mediterranean’s surface this month, roboticist Oussama Khatib felt as though he himself were there.
OceanOneK looks like a human diver from the front, with eight multi-directional thrusters (推进器) that allow careful operation underwater. The robot’s touch-based feedback system and 3D vision produced incredibly realistic sensations that equaled what he would have experienced were he down below, rather than above onboard the control ship. Observing through OceanOneK robot’s eyes and feeling through its hands, Khatib perceived a new dimension of colorful life — pink and green and orange — layered on and around the ship. He felt the resistance of the water and could recognize the shapes of the historic relic around him.
The mission of OceanOneK to these depths had two purposes: to explore places no one has gone to before and to show that human touch, vision, and interactivity can be brought to the sites far-removed from where people can operate.
While OceanOneK had many noteworthy adventures and successes during two multi-stop trips around the Mediterranean, the accomplishment of the team and the ship’s crew was demonstrating functional autonomy at nearly 1,000 m down. It was this advance that earned OceanOne’s renaming to OceanOneK.
“This is the first time that a robot has been capable of going to such a depth, interacting with the environment, and permitting the human operator to feel that environment,” said Khatib. “It has been an incredible journey.”
“Distancing humans physically from dangerous and unreachable spaces while connecting their skills and experience to the task promises to fundamentally alter remote work,” said Khatib. “Robotic avatars (化身) will search for and acquire materials, build structures, and perform disaster prevention and recovery operations — be it deep in oceans and mines, at mountain tops, or in space.”
1. How does OceanOneK work?A.By sending operators deep down the ocean. |
B.By enhancing divers’ vision underwater. |
C.By creating an at-the-scene experience. |
D.By measuring the resistance of water. |
A.The origin of OceanOneK’s name. |
B.The demonstration of the ship’s crew. |
C.The noteworthy successes of the team. |
D.The adventures around the Mediterranean. |
A.Their promising future. | B.Their technical advances. |
C.Their present applications. | D.Their scientific significance. |
A.OceanOneK: Taking on a New Dimension of Colorful Life |
B.OceanOneK: Connecting Human Sensations to Deep Sea |
C.Robotic Avatars: Saving Human from Disasters |
D.Robotic Avatars: Altering Human Work Patterns |
【推荐2】A recent study conducted by Gavin Sandercock at the University of Essex in the UK and his colleagues shows just one in 20 people aged 18 to 64 in England are meeting England’s strictest weekly strength training guidelines. Strength training is defined as any activities that strengthens muscles or bone, says Sandercock. This can include lifting weights, body weight exercises and fitness plans.
The teams looked at survey data from over 275,000 adults in this age group. Between 2015 and 2017, these people were asked to estimate how much time they spend doing physical activity each week. They wanted to find out what proportion of these adults in England met the UK’s weekly health guidelines, which recommend 150 minutes of moderate activity a week.
The researchers found that on average just 5 percent of these adults in England met the full recommendation, including strength training. They also found that men were more likely to meet all the guidelines as well as younger age groups. “But the strongest effect that we found when we looked at the variables was education,” Sandercock says.
“There are two main reasons why this could be the case,” Sandercock says. “ People who are more educated may be more likely to know what the UK’s recommended health advice is. On the other hand, it could be that strength training——especially lifting weights——often requires access to a gym which costs money. Higher levels of education have been linked to greater wealth,” he says.
“To encourage greater participation in strength training, I believe we need to raise awareness about its multiple benefits. And we need to stress that strength training is relevant to health and fitness across all age groups and not just for young males. Anyway, there’s still a long way to go.” says Anne Tidedmann at the University of Sydney.
1. What does the study show about the adults in England?A.They lack strength training. | B.They attach importance to diet. |
C.They watch their weight. | D.They have strict fitness plans. |
A.They are aimed at male athletes. | B.They have a standard for exercise time. |
C.They include some mental activities. | D.They only apply to healthy people. |
A.It enriches knowledge on health. | B.It makes a person become wealthy. |
C.It affects strength training greatly. | D.It contributes to one’s wisdom. |
A.It takes less time. | B.It needs great efforts. |
C.It makes mo difference. | D.It gets wide support. |
【推荐3】What is your dream job? If your answer is, “I can only have one?", you might be a slash youth(斜杠青年). The source of the term slash youth is the “/" used when introducing jobs in English. It refers to a group of people who no longer meet the lifestyle of a single occupation, but choose a diverse life with multiple occupations and identities. Those people are also called the slash-generation or slashers.
It is most likely a result of the ample amount of options students have today regarding their education. Since they are able to pick what they want to study, they prefer to continue doing this in their career path as well.
The number of people with slash careers in China has gone beyond 80 million. Many people think it is a trend. They note that multiple sidelines can make them acquire different skills. Xue Zhenni, 34, who has adopted a slash career, says, “My second identity as a tour guide has even promoted my first job——a human resources administrator. She adds that she could build up interpersonal communication skills and adaptability, and improve effectiveness. All of those gild (镀金) her first title.
Some people think if they limit themselves to a certain skill, they may risk going out of date in this changing society. The Chinese economy is transitioning (过渡) from high-speed growth to high-quality development. It requires a higher level of professionalism and more skills for young people in order to adapt to the changes.
Slashers' popularity has also raised concerns from critics, who argue that multiple roles risk weakening the performance of slashers in their full-time jobs. But most people agree with the idea that people can choose to be a slasher as long as their side work won’t affect their full-time one.
1. What is the most remarkable feature of the slash-generation?A.They always set limits to their career paths. |
B.They refuse to engage in specialized work. |
C.They prefer having multiple job experiences. |
D.They like to be restricted to a single interest. |
A.Slashers have to build up different skills. |
B.Sidelines have more advantages than regular jobs. |
C.Tour guide is a good job for the slash-generation. |
D.Slashers can benefit from their multiple roles. |
A.Give less weight to their first occupation. |
B.Avoid being engaged in too many side jobs. |
C.Forget the unpleasant comments from the critics. |
D.Strike a balance between regular jobs and side ones. |
A.The Method to Gain More Working Skills |
B.Disadvantages of the Youth’s New Lifestyle |
C.The Trend of Embracing a “Slash” Career |
D.Conflicts Between Regular Jobs and Sidelines |