【推荐3】Sooner or later, many families will face the situation of moving. The experience can be very bad for kids, who may not be a part of the decision to move and may not understand it. You can take steps to make the whole process (过程) easier for everyone.

Many kids like to stay in familiar places. So as you consider a move, weigh the benefits of that change against the comfort that neighborhood, school, and social life give your kids. If your family has recently dealt with a big life change, such as death, you may want to put off a move to give your children time to accept the fact.

The decision to move may be out of your hands, perhaps because of a new job or money problems.   Even if you're not happy about the move, try to keep a positive attitude to it.   During the move, parents' attitude can greatly influence kids.

No matter what the results are, the most important way to prepare kids to move is to talk about it.   Try to give your children as much information about the move as possible. You can ask kids to join in the planning such as house hunting or the search for a new school.   This can make the change feel less like it's being forced on them. If you're moving across town, try to take your children to visit the new house and the new neighborhood.

A move can have many problems, but good things also come from this kind of change.   Your family might grow closer and you may learn more about each other by going through it together.

1. According to the passage kids may feel a move is a bad experience because ________.

A．they don't like the moving process

B．they may feel they're forced to do so

C．they think their parents don't care about them

D．they often feel lonely in a new school

2. In which situation does the writer advise to put off a move?

A．The new neighborhood isn't safe.	B．The parents have money problems.
C．A family member has just died.	D．The kid's birthday is coming.

3. When making the move easier for kids, ________is most important.

A．letting them choose a school

B．trying not to show them the bad parts of a move

C．telling them as much information as possible

D．promising to choose a new house with them

4. The writer wrote this passage mainly to tell us ________.

A．why parents should talk with kids often	B．how to prepare children for a move
C．how a move can change the family	D．what we should do before a move

【推荐1】Different people may have different habits. Then how might habits connect with studying and learning?    1    

What are habits?

Habits are regular ways of dealing with your environment. You generally do not pay attention to them. Habits take many forms-eating, exercising, even studying. You may not realize it, but habits make up many of the actions that you do every day.

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In the book Atomic Habits, James Clear describes a four-step process by which habits are made. These steps are cue, craving, response, and reward. The cue tells your brain to begin a behavior. The craving is what makes you want to do something. The response is the actual habit that you perform.    3    “Rewards are the end goal of every habit,” Clear writes.

Make a habit studying English

You should organize your surroundings in such a way that the cues of your new habit are very obvious. For example, if you want to get in the habit of studying English every day, leave English books or notes in a very clear place.

To make your new habit easy, you could decrease the number of steps you have to take in order to study. You could also try reducing the amount of time you study.

Also, you need to make your habit satisfying.    4    For example, if you study English for 15 minutes, you could treat yourself to listening to a song you like.

Closing thoughts

Building new habits can take time.    5    But with time, careful planning and continued practice, you can do it.

A．How are habits made?

B．You may have to repeat an action many times before it becomes a habit.

C．The response, in turn, gives you a reward.

D．Good habits lead to productive and happy life.

E．Now let’s explore the very question.

F．You can give yourself a reward after completing your new habit.

G．If you place too many demands on yourself, you are likely to give up on your new habit.

【推荐2】As countless unmade beds and unfinished homework assignments prove, kids need rules. Yet how parents make demands can powerfully influence a child’s social skills, psychologists at the University of Virginia recently found after the conclusion on a study investigating the transition from adolescence to adulthood.

Initially 184 13-year-olds filled out multiple surveys, including one to assess how often their parents employed psychologically controlling strategies, such as threatening to withdraw affection. The kids rated, for example how typical it would be for Dad to suggest that “if I really cared for him, I would not do things that caused him to worry” or for Mom to become “less friendly when I did not see things her way.”

The researchers followed up with the subjects at ages 18 and 21, asking the young adults to bring along a close friend. These pairs were asked to answer questions that were purposefully written to cause a difference of opinion. “We wanted to see whether they could handle a disagreement in a healthy way,” says study leader Barbara Oudekerk, now at the U.S. Department of Justice’s Bureau of Statistics.

In the October issue of Child Development, Oudekerk and her colleagues report that the 13-year-olds who had highly controlling parents floundered in friendly disagreements at age 18. They had difficulty stating their opinions in a confident, reasoned manner in comparison to the kids without controlling parents. And when they did speak up, they often failed to express themselves in warm and productive ways.

The researchers suspect that controlling parents affect their child’s ability to learn how to argue his or her own viewpoint in other relationships. Although parents do need to set boundaries， dominating strategies imply that any disagreement will damage the bond itself. Separate findings suggest that parents who explain the reasons behind their rules and turn disagreements into conversations leave youngsters better prepared for future disagreements.

The consequences of tense or dominating relationships appear to worsen with time. This study also found that social difficulties at 18 predicted even poorer communication abilities at age 21. Psychologist Shmuel Shulman of Bar-llan University in Israel, who did not participate in the work, thinks these conclusions convincingly reveal how relationship patterns “carry forward” into new friendships.

1. What did the researchers from the University of Virginia do in their research?

A．They asked kids about how they got along with their parents.

B．They surveyed some parents about what rules kids needed.

C．They inquired into what the kids’ friends thought of them.

D．They traced their subjects for nearly eight years.

2. The phrase “floundered in” (in paragraph 4) is closest in meaning to ___.

A．struggled with

B．dealt with

C．looked over

D．took over

3. What can be inferred from the passage?

A．Shmuel Shulman thinks more evidence is needed for the new research.

B．Controlling parents’ influence on their kids gets stronger as time goes by.

C．21-year-olds are more eager to be free of parents’ control than 18-year-olds.

D．Kids can handle disagreement better if their parents get along well with each other.

4. What is the passage mainly about?

A．Pushy parents could harm their kids’ social skills.

B．Kids should learn what friendly disagreements are.

C．Parents; affection matters in terms of kids; personality.

D．Few parents explain the reasons why they set boundaries.