It is difficult for parents of nearly every family to teach their children to be responsible
If you give your children the impression that they can never do anything quite right, then they will regard
My daughter Carla’s fifth grade teacher made every child in her class feel special. When students received less than a perfect test score, she would point out
You can use the same technique when you evaluate your child’s work at home. Don't always scold and give lots of praise instead. Talk about what he
Learning is a process of trying and failing and trying and succeeding. If you teach your children not to fear a mistake of
2 . Parents can begin good organization (条理) habits with preschool-age kids, Experts recommend asking them to do small, simple actions on a regular basis with the help of parents. Maybe they open their bags and bring their lunch bag to the kitchen, or take their shoes off at the door and put them in a nearby closet. These won’t save parents much time but they will help develop good habits.
When kids enter primary school, they should be ready for more responsibility. This is the time to teach them about daily routines, and help them take control over theirs. Parents and children might sit down together and make a list of everything that needs to be done to get out of the house in the morning, or get ready for bed at night. Together, parents should figure out how long each activity takes, and when the best time to do them is. Some of the kids might want to get their bags ready and pick out their clothes the night before.
It’s also wise to create a firm schedule for homework. When do kids do their homework? How long do they need? Where do they do it? Where will the homework go once it is done? Figure them out and stick to the schedule as much as possible.
Parents should print up these task lists and help kids finish them step by step. Kids might even check them off each morning or evening. Also, make sure there are clocks in the rooms in which these tasks will take place. Time management is an important part of learning organization, but it can’t be done if kids don’t know what time it is.
Organization gives kids the chance to make it possible to focus on a task and complete it. Kids tend to be more motivated to learn organization skills if they see organization as a challenge to overcome, rather than a fault to repair.
1. Why are kids advised to do small and simple actions?| A．To save parents time. |
| B．To join a school organization. |
| C．To help kids form good habits. |
| D．To form a good relationship with others. |
| A．Offer some suggestions only. |
| B．Finish the daily tasks for kids. |
| C．Assist kids in finishing the daily tasks. |
| D．Let the kid finish the daily tasks alone. |
| A．It is a fault to repair. | B．It is nothing special. |
| C．It is easy to achieve. | D．It is a helpful skill. |
3 . In Woods Chan's class at a High School in California, students chat with each other in Spanish.Arabic(阿拉伯语) and Mam, a Mayan language from Guatemala. The students have only been in the US for a few weeks or months. Many students were from different countries last year. Woods Chan became concerned when she started hearing the Spanish-speaking students laugh when their classmates spoke Mam or Arabic.
Woods Chan came up with an idea. She asked her students to take turns teaching a little bit of their home language each day. Students taught their peers(同伴) how to count from 1 to 10, how to introduce themselves and how to say basic phrases or words like, ""Cool. "Then, they recorded themselves saying those phrases in short videos and wrote vocabulary words on the whiteboard.
Woods Chan saw the difference in her students. She said they grew more confident after seeing their own language on the whiteboard and hearing it in the videos. They started making friends with each other across cultural lines. Other students who were not in that class would come in and see something written in Mam on the whiteboard and say, "Hey, that's Mam! I speak Mam!”
The project also helped students understand their peers better. Orlando, a 17-year-old student from El Salvador, said he never knew Arabic or Mam even existed before he came to the US and heard his classmates talk. Now, he thinks it would be good for all students in his school to learn a little of their peers' home language. "When I first got here,”he said in Spanish, “I thought, ‘No one talks like me. I'm the only one,’ and I felt alone. Now, I don't feel so bad anymore.”
Knowledge of other languages can help Woods Chan's students beyond the classroom, too.Languages like Mam are becoming more and more common in the US. Some Oakland graduates have gone on to become Mam-English interpreters(口译员)to help fill a lack of interpreters in all kinds of settings.
1. What made Woods Chan think of the idea?| A．Her students making fun of another's language |
| B．Her students hardly using their home language. |
| C．Her students being interested in learning a new language. |
| D．Her students having difficulty communicating with each other. |
| A．Angry but accepting. | B．Excited and proud. |
| C．puzzled but supportive. | D．Relaxed and creative. |
| A．It made him feel less alone at school. |
| B．It encouraged him to get a job as an interpreter. |
| C．It helped him understand his home language better. |
| D．It enabled him to work better in foreign language classes. |
| A．School is not the only place to learn. |
| B．All her students are language teachers. |
| C．She responds to her students' needs quickly. |
| D．Language is not a barrier to communication |
4 . You've decided your child is spoiled（宠坏的），and you want to do something about it. Is it too late? Not necessarily。. Here are four tips from an expert for getting your child to behave well.
Don't overreact to crying. When children don't get what they want, their natural behavior is to cry. If you react every time your child cries, you may be denying（拒绝给予） him or her an important chance to learn something.
Prepare for a fight. At the beginning, children's demands will increase when they find out parents are not going to give them the new toys they want. When it happens, be careful not to give in just because the child shouts.
Stick to the program.
| A．Make changes slowly. |
| B．Cut down on rewards. |
| C．Try your best to comfort the child. |
| D．Rather, wait until the child calms down. |
| E．Your child will probably be upset when you begin making changes. |
| F．There is little doubt that things will get worse before they get better. |
| G．As a parent, you need to know when to comfort a child and when to simply walk away. |
如今，许多家长焦虑地守在孩子身边、密切关注孩子一举一动，被称之为“直升机父母(Helicopter parents)”，还有“扫雪机父母(Snowplow parents)”,轰隆隆地扫除孩子通往成功路上的所有障碍，让孩子免遭失败、挫折。对此，学校校刊特辟专栏对此进行讨论，请以李华为名投稿，用身边的例子描述这两类家长，并谈谈对此的看法。
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6 . In October, I told the eight-year-olds about my plan. “I’d like all of you to do extra jobs to
Early in the week, the boys and girls arrived in class seizing their hard-earned money and couldn’t wait to go shopping. I watched
“Flowers！” Kristine cried. The group rushed toward the holiday
Then we set off to the house of a needy grandmother and finally
We returned to the car. Fastening seat belts, we could see the kitchen window. The woman inside waved goodbye, then turned and walked across the room, past the turkey, past the trimmings,
| A．spend | B．earn | C．withdraw | D．save |
| A．either | B．though | C．otherwise | D．anyway |
| A．experience | B．expect | C．advocate | D．clarify |
| A．enjoy | B．receive | C．accumulate | D．share |
| A．better than | B．rather than | C．other than | D．more than |
| A．alive | B．great | C．fresh | D．natural |
| A．until | B．before | C．while | D．since |
| A．Gradually | B．Eventually | C．Frequently | D．Occasionally |
| A．observed | B．confirmed | C．recognized | D．spotted |
| A．plants | B．lights | C．cards | D．foods |
| A．Contented | B．Confused | C．Defeated | D．Determined |
| A．pulled up | B．settled down | C．came around | D．got through |
| A．accompany | B．welcome | C．inspect | D．instruct |
| A．puzzle | B．relief | C．pleasure | D．disappointment |
| A．straight | B．abruptly | C．casually | D．suddenly |
| A．terror | B．shock | C．pain | D．smile |
| A．transformed | B．comforted | C．convinced | D．witnessed |
| A．chance | B．decision | C．moment | D．condition |
| A．energy | B．power | C．talent | D．quality |
| A．wealthier | B．healthier | C．easier | D．better |
7 . Some children do some housework, such as sweeping the floor, doing dishes, taking out the rubbish and so on.
The logic behind tying rewards to housework is clear.
Many people are in favor of this practice. They believe that getting rewards motivates kids to do housework, and it also teaches them real world lessons about how we need to work to earn money. “Our goal is to encourage kids to earn rewards,” says Chris Bergman, founder of Chore Monster. “
| A．But some people think otherwise. |
| B．Grownups get paid to do their jobs. |
| C．Paying kids is sending a bad message. |
| D．In exchange, they get some pocket money. |
| E．However, other people subscribe to the view. |
| F．Running any kind of household is a team effort. |
| G．Kids need positive rewards to help motivate them. |
8 . Last year, on report card day, my son and a bunch of his 13-year-old friends piled into the back seat of my car, ready for the last-day-of-school party at McDonald’s. “Jack got a laptop for getting straight A’s, and Laurie got a cell phone,” one boy said. “Oh, yeah, and Sarah got an iPod Nano, and she’s only in third grade,” said another. “And how about Brian? He got $10 for each A.”
I suddenly became concerned. These payoffs might get parents through grammar school, but what about high school and beyond? What would be left after the electric guitar, the cell phone, and the portable laptop?
I saw the road ahead: As the homework load increased, my income would decrease. I saw my comfortable lifestyle vanish before my eyes — no more of those $5 bags of already-peeled organic carrots. No more organic anything!
I started to feel surprised and nervous. Would every goal attained by my two children fetch a reward? A high grade point average? A good class ranking? Would sports achievements be included in this reward system: soccer goals, touchdowns（橄榄球触地得分）, runs-batted-in（棒球打点得分）? What about orchestra（管弦乐团）? Would first chair pay more than second? I’d be penniless by eighth-grade graduation.
“We never paid anything for good grades,” said my neighbor across the street, whose son was recently accepted at MIT. “He just did it on his own. Maybe once in a while we went out for pizza, but that’s about it.”
Don’t you just hate that? We’re all running around looking for the latest electronic products, and she’s spending a few dollars on pizza. She gets motivation; we get negotiation.
1. The sentence “As the homework load increased, my income would decrease.” in the third paragraph probably means ______.| A．taking care of the children would influence my work |
| B．I would spend more money on my children’s homework |
| C．reducing children’s homework load would cost me a lot |
| D．more rewards would be needed as the children grew up |
| A．if you pay the children for good grades, they would take it for granted |
| B．if you buy children pizza for good grades, they would work harder |
| C．children would not ask for rewards when they enter high school |
| D．children would not ask for rewards when they enter university |
| A．pizza is the best way to motivate children |
| B．reward is not the only way to motivate children |
| C．the author’s neighbor was very poor |
| D．the author’s neighbor’s son didn’t like reward |
| A．Favorable. | B．Ambiguous. |
| C．Disagreeable. | D．Unknowable. |
1. What’s the discussion about?
| A．Children’s independence. |
| B．Teachers’ medical treatment. |
| C．Parents' accompanying(陪伴)their children at school. |
| A．About 30%. | B．About 50%. | C．About 70%. |
| A．Set up goals. | B．Do the housework. | C．Finish their homework. |
| A．Neither. | B．The first one. | C．The second one. |
10 . There have been big changes in the attitudes of most parents over the last few years. Physical punishment is banned（禁止）in schools in most countries, and in many countries, there are moves to ban all physical punishment of children even at home. However, many parents still believe that they have the right to use physical punishment to deal with certain misbehavior at certain ages.
It's easy to find reasons to allow physical punishment. One issue is that many parents find it very difficult to give up physical punishment completely. Parents argue that this is the way they were brought up and that it didn't do any harm to them. They believe that they have the right to punish the child in any way they consider fit, including using physical punishment. 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 the use of seat belts -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 beliefs 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 ________.| A．most of the children behave badly in their daily life |
| B．they have changed their attitudes towards their children |
| C．physical punishment is effective when educating their children |
| D．they are free to use physical punishment on their children |
| A．they are disappointed with their children |
| B．physical punishment really works |
| C．they were brought up just in the same way |
| D．they don't know what to do with their children |
| A．most people are used to wearing seat belts |
| B．people won't change their old habits unless forced to |
| C．seat belts are really very necessary and useful |
| D．it's not difficult to change some negative habits |
| 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 only at home |
