【推荐2】Every year around August, millions of teens take their parents to stores to buy new clothes for the start of the school year. Not every parent can afford this, and some teens are forced to go to school in the same clothes they wore last year. The obvious differences in clothes cause differences among students. There is a simple solution to this problem; school uniforms (校服).

I know from personal experience and surveys that wearing uniforms creates a sense of equality among peers (同龄人).

From sixth grade until I graduated from senior high school, I attended a school that required students to wear uniforms. The uniform was very simple: dark brown shoes, green-brown pants, and a white shirt. The uniform left little room for any kind of self-expression, especially through clothes.

However, I learned how to stand out by expressing myself through my personality, art, and sports. I did not know I could draw until the sixth grade. I also would never have learned of my musical abilities if it hadn’t been for my desire to find ways to express myself. Uniforms taught me that I was myself, except what I wore.

Uniforms also contribute to a much safer learning environment. I remember a particular event that happened in my junior high school. A man ran away from prison and wanted to hide in the gym of our school. Luckily, cameras all over the school quickly found the stranger before any danger could ever happen as he was out of place. School officials kept the man locked inside our gym until the police came to take him back to prison.

Uniforms help provide a better educational experience for all students no matter what race, culture, or economic class (经济阶层). In closing, wearing uniforms is good for both schools and students.

1. How does the author introduce the topic?

A．By explaining a basic rule.

B．By challenging others’ views.

C．By describing a common problem.

D．By sharing his parents’ experience.

2. Which of the following could the author agree with?

A．Uniforms should be more modern.

B．Uniforms can help shape better students.

C．Uniforms are popular with students.

D．Uniforms are bad for self-development.

3. What do the underlined words “out of place” in Paragraph 5 probably mean?

A．Dressing differently.	B．Standing straight.
C．Running fast.	D．Breathing heavily.

4. What is the author’s purpose in writing the text?

A．To record his high school life.

B．To show his supportive view towards uniforms.

C．To ask students to like what they wear.

D．To introduce high school uniforms.

【推荐1】Researchers have found that being grateful isn’t just a nice personal quality that leads to good manners. I also leads to a great payoff. By being truly thankful for all that life provides, a child has more chance of being emotionally, and socially Successful.

“Gratitude opens your mind and lets you recognize the goodness in your life,” says Froh, a psychology professor who has conducted eight studios on gratitude over the past three years. According to Froh, a grateful child feels more connected and loved. After all, if he’s able to understand that many others care enough to make an effort for him, his life is improved. When older children aged 14 to 19 are able to acknowledge their good fortune, they’re more likely to be happy and experience lower levels of depression, envy and selfness.

For the past decade, experts like Froh have been conducting “gratitude interventions(干预)”, in which kids are encouraged to do a series of exercises, from writing a thank-you note to reciting it to make a gratitude journal, Overall, the results have been encouraging: Just in comparison with adults, it seems that children become more grateful.

Yet there remains much to be learned about children and gratitude. There’s some evidence suggesting that girls are more grateful than boys, Also, Froh says that while there’s not yet any hard data, there’s possibility that a child’s ability to be grateful depends on his or her age. One study looked at gratitude and life satisfaction in kids aged 3 to 9 and found that only 7 to 9-year-olds followed the example set by their parents in their ability to feel true gratitude. Most 3 to 6-year-olds don’t have the emotional development to see outside themselves enough to be truly grateful.

So how do people apply these newfound scientific findings? Froh encourages parents not to command children to express their thanks, but to let them show gratitude in whatever way is most comfortable. As Froh points out, children learn best when grown-ups model the very behavior they’d like to see in their kids.

1. What can we know about children who are grateful?

A．They are less likely to feel depressed.

B．They seem to be more thoughtful.

C．They feel proud of others’ good fortune.

D．They attach importance to selfness.

2. How do the experts conduct gratitude interventions?

A．By asking kids to do hard work.

B．By comparing kids with adults.

C．By guiding kids to follow good examples.

D．By encouraging kids to express their thanks.

3. What does Froh advise parents to do?

A．Show kids true gratitude.

B．Set a good example to kids.

C．Provide a comfortable life for kids.

D．Tell kids how to express gratitude.

4. What may be the best title for the text?

A．A New Scientific Finding

B．The Power of Gratitude

C．Children and Gratitude

D．How to Express Gratitude

【推荐3】Moral (道德的) science is taught as a subject in most schools but with little effect. Perhaps part of the problem lies in the fact that morality is not a science, strictly speaking. It is too much of a social phenomenon, and also has too much of the personal and subjective things mixed within. Besides, morality itself changes with generations. So it is impossible to be defined in a textbook.

I remember sitting through forty minutes of moral lessons, which told stories about little children who never told lies and were rewarded for their goodness. It had little effect and left no impression on me, though.

If moral science has to be taught as a subject in schools, it needs a participatory (参与其中的) approach. When you tell a child about morals, you also have to deal with social norms (规范) and cultural differences. You have to explain that morality can be subjective, and be able to co-exist in society. You will probably have to refer to the morals of the present time.

The best way to tell a child how to live is to show him what is valued. If a child likes his friend, you have to make the child think about why. Once the child notices and recognizes goodness in others, he or she is likely to develop it as well.

In fact, children learn most of their morals by watching people around them. They absorb behavior patterns from teachers and older students. They watch to see what is rewarded and who is punished. They learn on the sports field and through social work. Moral science lessons should simply consist of letting them live and interact, and watch you support correct values and reward good behavior.

1. Which is NOT the reason that moral science is taught in schools but with little effect?

A．Morality doesn’t strictly belong to a science.

B．Morality is more like a social phenomenon.

C．Different generations have different moral ideas.

D．Morality can’t be written down in textbooks.

2. The author describes his own experience of having moral lessons in order to _____.

A．explain telling lies is not moral for little children.

B．advise people should be rewarded for their goodness.

C．show he has no opinions about moral science.

D．prove moral lessons in schools have little effect.

3. When you tell a child about morals, you should________.

A．tell him about social norms and cultural differences.

B．teach him to share personal moral ideas with others.

C．explain that nobody can influence his moral ideas.

D．say that the present morals are likely to be changed.

4. What is the last paragraph mainly about?

A．The value of teachers’ setting a good example.

B．The best way of teaching children about morals.

C．The influence of people’s behavior on morals.

D．The importance of rewarding good behavior.