Kids who talk regularly with their fathers are happier than kids who don’t, according to a new research.
Children who converse with their fathers “most days” considered them-selves 87 out of 100 on a happiness degree, while those who rarely talk to their dads got a score of 79. The study results showed the findings “highly important”, because the research has proved that a person’s happiness later in life has something to do with their parents Relationship during the teen years.
Dads may not have as many meaningful conversations (谈话) with their kids as moms, but they tend to roughhouse with them more than moms do, and the research shows that’s important for kids’ development, too. There are new studies showing that this kind of play inspires kids to explore in kids’ future life. Studies also show that dads often give power to their children and encourage them to explore and meet new people. And dads tend to be more in charge of playtime than moms, too.
“Mothers help children feel connected> expected and wanted,” said Patrick Tolan, “Fathers teach them how to interact with others and how to control themselves when they feel their needs aren’t being met.”
One study from School of Psychology, Université de Mentréal observed parents interacting with their toddlers (刚学会走路的孩子) while children were put into “risky” situations. In one experiment, a stranger came up toeing the kids and in another, the kids saw toys placed at the top of stairs. The dads followed their kids at a distance, which encouraged kids to explore.
“We found that fathers are more Likely than mothers to activate exploratory behavior by being less protective Daniel Paquette said. And as any in-dependent-minded child knows, the chance to explore without an overprotective mom on board leads to even more happiness.
1. The underlined phrase converse with?, in Paragraph 2 may mean ________.| A．talk with | B．compete with |
| C．work with | D．play with |
| A．will become more violent in later life |
| B．will be active in finding more in life |
| C．will have no pity for others |
| D．will treat their parents badly |
| A．Because dads are more confident in themselves. |
| B．Because dads are usually careless parents. |
| C．Because dads are willing to take risks themselves. |
| D．Because dads don^ protect them eagerly. |
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【推荐1】Twenty-five years ago on July 1, 1997, I woke up very late in my apartment in Singapore. I jumped out of bed in a little bit of panic. I woke up my 8-year-old daughter Avy, who was not exactly in a hurry to get out of bed. “We’re late for school,” I half-yelled at her. I finally got her into the shower, dressed her hurriedly and made it to the nearby bus stop in time. Thankfully, the school was only two stops away. We got in, rubbing our eyes as the sunlight streamed into the bus.
Her mom had flown to Hong Kong several days earlier on assignment for a newspaper to cover the handover of the city’s return to China.
I had taken off from work for a week to help look after our daughter. I would pick up my daughter from school around midday. At the end of the day, I would watch the news on TV, which would lead the entire week with the historic events happening in Hong Kong. I would wonder where my wife was in the crowd that was gathered to witness the handover.
The year, 1997, was tense because the Asian financial crisis began. The Thai baht(泰铢) was hit, followed by the South Korean won(韩元) and, like a contagious virus which spreads rapidly, the financial system seized up. For that week though, that was the least of my worries. I just made sure we did not have a repeat of July 1, when we were nearly late for school. My wife was very busy during the handover, chasing down stories in Hong Kong as the British flag was lowered for the last time.
I later spent a few years working in Hong Kong, but my enduring memory of the days surrounding its return to China was the time I spent as a babysitter, although it is kind of hard to call an 8-year-old a baby. The whole thing was a lifetime ago. But it is a good memory.
1. What was the author’s day like on July 1, 1997?| A．He and his daughter woke up in panic. |
| B．He barely got his daughter on time. |
| C．It was his first babysitting day. |
| D．His daughter went to school energetically. |
| A．He wanted to witness the historic events. |
| B．He needed to take care of his daughter. |
| C．He drove his daughter to school and pick up her back around midday. |
| D．He accompanied his daughter to find her mother on TV in the evening. |
| A．The events happening in Hong Kong. |
| B．The crowd gathered to see the handover. |
| C．The spread of the Asian financial crisis. |
| D．The 8-year-old daughter I was babysitting. |
| A．The historic events in 1997. |
| B．Life of a journalist’s husband. |
| C．A working dad’s way of babysitting children. |
| D．Bitter sweet memory with daughter alone. |
【推荐2】On July 17, 2017, Olympic diver Greg Louganis arrived in Honolulu for Louganis and Lutu’s first official father-and-son hug. “It was just meant to be,” Louganis said of joining his father in Honolulu for an extended Lutu family reunion. “It’s so wonderful to have him with us,” said Lutu. “And this is more of a beginning,” added Louganis.
But the four-day celebration also marked the conclusion of an emotional lifelong journey for Louganis, who was put up for adoption as a baby and struggled for years with the feeling that his biological parents never loved him. His adoptive parents were always open with him about that. But the adoption organization had lost Louganis’s files in a fire, and unanswered questions led to troubled times for the young athlete. Later, Louganis got to know his biological parents had been young and had no choice in giving him up for adoption. “This helped ease the question of whether I was loved,” he said.
Feeling more “at peace” about his family, Louganis turned his focus to diving. By the time he was 28, he’d become a four-time Olympic gold medallist. Among his biggest fans was Lutu, who for years had quietly followed his son’s life from afar. Then in 1984, Lutu decided to meet him when Louganis was in Honolulu.
Face-to-face with his son for the first time, Lutu was emotional. “Like me, he’s a man of few words. But he told me he’d wanted to raise me,” said Louganis. Despite his skepticism, Louganis continued to meet with Lutu. “He never asked for anything,” said Louganis. “He just wanted to know if I was okay and that I was happy.”
The reunion gave Louganis a lot to look forward to. “I have family there,” he said, almost in disbelief. “It’s an incredible gift that I’ve been given.”
1. What did Louganis do on July 17, 2017?| A．He happened to meet his biological father. |
| B．He travelled abroad with his father. |
| C．He requested his father to receive him. |
| D．He publicly accepted by the Lutu family. |
| A．The truth that he was adopted. |
| B．The fact that his files were lost. |
| C．The reason why he was abandoned. |
| D．The belief that he was not loved. |
| A．Generous. | B．Indifferent. | C．Considerate. | D．Hateful. |
1. Why is June 6, 1990 a special day for Mommy?
| A．Her dream of being a mother came true. |
| B．She found her origin from her Chinese mother. |
| C．She wrote the letter to her daughter. |
| D．Her female line was well linked. |
| A．It is bitter and disappointing. |
| B．It is painful but understandable. |
| C．She feels sorry but sympathetic. |
| D．She feels hurt and angry. |
| A．I walked clumsily out of pains. |
| B．I was not easy to love due to jealousy. |
| C．I was impatient out of fear. |
| D．I looked different from others. |
| A．She used to experience an identity crisis. |
| B．She fought against her American identity. |
| C．She forgot the pains of her early years. |
| D．She kept her love for Asia from childhood. |
| A．To match her own birth-name. |
| B．To brighten the lives of the family. |
| C．To identify her with Chinese origin. |
| D．To justify her pride in Chinese culture. |
| A．her past was completed earlier than Shao-ming’s |
| B．Shao-ming has got motherly care and a sense of roots |
| C．her mother didn’t comfort her the way she did Shao-ming |
| D．her past was spent brokenly, first in Asia, then in the US |
【推荐1】Imagine you’re standing in line to buy a snack at a store. You step up to the counter and the cashier scans your food. Next, you have to pay. But instead of scanning a QR Code(二维码) with your smart phone, you just hold out your hand so the cashier can scan your fingerprint. Or, a camera scans your face, your eyes or even your ear.
Now, this type of technology might not be far away. As technology companies move away from the traditional password, biometric (生物特征识别的) security, which includes fingerprint, face and voice ID, is becoming increasingly popular.
In 2013, Apple introduced the iPhone 5s, one of the first smart phones with a fingerprint scanner. Since then, using one’s fingerprint to unlock a phone and make mobile payments has become a commonplace, bringing convenience to our lives. And since 2016, Samsung has featured eye-scanning technology in its top smart phones, while Apple’s new iphone X can even scan a user’s face. But despite its popularity, experts warn that biometrics might not be as secure as we imagine. “Biometrics is ideally good in practice, not so much,“ said John Michener, a biometrics expert.
When introducing the new iPhone’s face ID feature, Phil Schiller, Apple’s senior vice-president, said. “The chance that a random person in the population could look at your iPhones X and unlock it with their face is about one in a million.” But it’s already been done. In a video posted on a community website Reddit, two brothers showed how they were each able to unlock the same iPhone X using their own face. And they aren’t even twins.
“We may expect too much from biometrics,” Anil Jain, a computer science professor at Michigan State University, told CBS News. “No security systems are perfect.”
Earlier last year, Jain found a way to trick biometric security. Using a printed copy of a thumbprint, she was able to unlock a dead person’s smart phone for the police, according to a tech website Splinter. “It’s good to see biometrics being used more,” Jain told CBS News, “because it adds another factor for security. But using multiple security measures is the best defense.”
1. Which is the latest identification technology in a smart phone according to the passage?| A．Face scanning. | B．Eye scanning. |
| C．QR Code scanning. | D．Fingerprint scanning. |
| A．It takes too long to unlock the phone. |
| B．It often fails to recognize its owner’s face. |
| C．Face data can be used for other purposes. |
| D．Different faces can be used to unlock the same phone. |
| A．It is as secure as traditional measures. |
| B．It is perfect without much improvement. |
| C．It has caused much trouble for the police. |
| D．It should be used with other security measures. |
| A．The popularity of biometrics. |
| B．Security problems of biometrics. |
| C．Various problems with biometrics. |
| D．Great changes caused by biometrics. |
【推荐2】Why was school created?
If you’re honest with yourself, though, you know what a great place school is.
Schools are not a new invention. You may have seen some old one-room schoolhouses that have been around for several hundred years or more.
In fact, education dates back to the very first humans ever to live on Earth. Why? To survive, every generation has found it necessary to pass on its knowledge, skills, values, and traditions to the next generation. How can they do this? Education! Each subsequent generation (后代) must be taught these things.
Rather than every family being responsible for education, people soon found out that it would be easier and more efficient to have a small group of adults teach a larger group of children.
| A．In this way, the idea of school was born. |
| B．The earliest schools, though, date back thousands of years. |
| C．At that time, schools focused on reading, writing, and maths. |
| D．Ancient schools weren’t like the schools we know today, though. |
| E．We’re sure that’s a question that every student asks from time to time. |
| F．The earliest human beings didn’t need schools to pass along information. |
| G．You have fun, learn all kinds of interesting things, and get to spend time with your friends. |
【推荐3】Wikipedia, the online encyclopedia (百科全书), is the largest encyclopedia ever. An encyclopedia is a collection of informative articles about various things. Encyclopedias used to be printed as books.
“Wiki” is an Internet term that means “a website that can be edited by the public”. It comes from “wikiwiki”, a Hawaiian word for “quick”. Two Americans, Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger, created Wikipedia in 2001.
Today Wikipedia faces many challenges. It does not rely on advertising.
Despite these difficulties, Jimmy Wales says he will still stick to his dream. He has big plans for the future. He wants Wikipedia available in all of the world’s languages.
| A．Most of its editors are volunteers. |
| B．Now, they are mostly found online. |
| C．Wikipedia employs an open editing model. |
| D．Instead, all of its funds come from donations. |
| E．It allows users to get information within seconds. |
| F．It is now the fifth-most visited website on the Internet. |
| G．However, some people doubt the accuracy of Wikipedia's content. |
