1 . The Tiger Mother, Amy Chua and her book named Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother are famous all over the world, especially in America and China.
Amy Chua is a Chinese American, born in the USA to middle-class Chinese parents who moved to the US from China. She was born in the year of the tiger, so she called herself Tiger Mother. Amy Chua is very famous because of her parenting styles （养育方式） . She has two daughters, Sophia and Louisa. She is very strict with them.
From the moment her daughters were born, she had set targets for them. She decided that the two girls would play instruments, Sophia the piano and Louisa the violin, and what is more, they would be the best at it. At the same time, they had to be the first in study.
The two girls always get an A in each lesson. Sophia could read books and began to play the piano when she was 3 years old. Once, Louisa got the second place in a maths test when she was in Grade 5. After that, Amy Chua made Louisa do 20 pieces of paper and there were 100 maths problems on each paper. A week later, Louisa got the first place and she is the first all the time from then on.
1. Why does Amy Chua have the name Tiger Mother?| A．Because she wrote the book Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother. |
| B．Because she was born in the year of the tiger. |
| C．Because she likes tigers very much. |
| D．Because she is a tiger's mother. |
| A．Her name. | B．Her book. | C．Her parenting styles. | D．Her job. |
| A．目标 | B．模板 | C．规则 | D．竞赛 |
| A．two years old | B．three years old | C．four years old | D．five years old |
| A．20 maths problems | B．80 maths problems | C．100 maths problems | D．2,000 maths problems |
| A．She learnt parenting skills from her mother. | B．She was born in China. |
| C．She doesn't love her children. | D．She is a strict mother. |
2 . The reason of success
A professor told his students to go into the city slum (贫民窟) to study the life of 200 boys. He asked them to write reports about each boy’s life and future. Every one of the students wrote, “He doesn’t have any hope.”
Twenty-five years later, another professor read about the earlier study. He told his students to find out what had happened to these boys. Of the 200 boys, 20 had moved away or died. Nobody knew what had happened to them. They tried very hard and found the other 180 people. Among them 176 had become successful as doctors, teachers, and scientists.
The professor was very surprised and decided to study it further. Luckily, all the men were living near the place and he was able to ask each one, “What made you successful?” Each one answered with feeling, “There was a teacher.”
The teacher was still living there, so the professor found her and asked the old woman what she had used to pull those out of the slums, and change them into ________ people.
The teacher's eyes began to shine and she said with a sweet smile, “It's really very easy. I loved the boys.”
1题完成句子；2～3题简略回答问题；4题将文中横线处空缺的一个单词填写在下面的答题线上；5题将文中画线句子译成汉语。
1. The students went to the slum to
2. What changed the boys’ life?
3. Why was the second professor surprised?
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