Many parents don’t know how much exercise their children need to do every day to stay
The Youth Sport Trust leader, Ali Oliver said, “We have seen a drop in young people’s physical activity in recent
Meanwhile, figures from Sport England show only 17.5% of children are doing sports continuously. There is also a
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2 . It’s never too late to get a college diploma(毕业证书). Pat Ormond , more than seventy years old, is living proof of this. She received a bachelor’s(学士)degree in anthropology 42 years after taking her first college class.
But the Ormond family had another graduate from the University of Tennessee T Chattanooga(UTC) that same day: Ormond’s granddaughter, Melody Ormond. “I always knew that I’m going to graduate from college,”said Melody. “I just never knew that my grandma was also going to be there.”
Pat took her first college class at Kennesaw State University. After one term, she dropped out to move to Tennessee. She spent the next several decades working as an accountant and raising a family. And while she did an occasional class at UTC, her family continued to encourage her to finish her degree, especially after she retired.
Pat and Melody graduated last November. Their graduation ceremony was socially distanced, meaning that no audience were allowed. The achievement had made Pat somewhat a celebrity.
“We were so proud to have students like Melody Ormond and her grandmother, Pat Ormond , in the UTC class of 2020,” said UTC Chancellor Steven R. Angle. Together, they are examples of determination and love of lifelong learning we encourage in every UTC graduate.”
Pat hopes she can be an example for other nontraditional college students who want to get their degrees. “Learning never stops,”Pat said, who isn’t planning to stop anytime soon. She’s working on another degree一a bachelor’s degree in history.
1. How was Pat and Melody’s graduation ceremony?| A．Occasional. | B．Nontraditional. |
| C．Nobody attended it. | D．It was banned. |
| A．Satisfied. | B．Pessimistic. | C．Optimistic. | D．Amazed. |
| A．University graduates. | B．Full-time university students. |
| C．Those that are like her. | D．People that want a degree. |
| A．Pat and Melody | B．Pat Ormond’s Life Story |
| C．Learning Never Stops | D．Universities Are Open Forever |
3 . Children under the age of 18 will be allowed up to three hours per week to play video games, according to a notice issued by China's National Press and Publication Administration. Online game companies are required to provide services to minors — from 8 to 9 p. m. on Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays and legal holidays — as a way to safeguard their physical and mental health. Children are playing more and more online games these days. Is it time to limit their online gaming time? What role do parents have? Readers share their opinions.
Rizlared
Online games are addictive, but if children are taught how to manage in a sensible and responsible manner then it is no longer a threat(威胁).To achieve this, parents need to set examples for not being glued to their phones. Teaching is and always will be the best solution to such problems.
Andrew
Good policy. By limiting time spent on online games, kids can spend time doing more useful things to develop their potential. They can go outside and run, jump and swim instead of sitting on a couch at home and playing with a smart phone.
Adam
It is often seen that parents argue with children over cellphones. Most parents can hardly set and enforce the time limit for its daily usage. Some forcibly take away their cellphones, but it will ruin trust and relationship. Even worse, it will make their kids hate them.
Pink
Excessive(过度的）gaming is purely a waste of time and energy for minors and has a negative effect on both physical and mental health. The gaming industry should not put profit- flaking interests as its priority ( 优先事项) . They should act in a socially responsible way to provide an environment for children to ensure their well-being and development.
Lauren
There would be a loophole(漏洞). Children could use their parents’ or other adults’ IDs to avoid real-name registration, thus making it impossible to put this policy in effect. Parents absolutely need to strengthen guidance and supervision to keep their children from gaming addiction.
1. What should kids do according to Andrew?| A．Play online games. | B．Play with a smart phone. |
| C．Study all the time. | D．Go in for outside activities. |
| A．Pay attention to its profit. | B．Focus on kids’ health. |
| C．Be responsible for kids’ surroundings. | D．Persuade kids lo play more games. |
| A．They keep hold of their phones. | B．They set examples for their kids. |
| C．They limit their kids’ time. | D．They blame kids for addiction. |
4 . How To Teach Your Children Proper Manners
Do you think that proper manners are going the way of the dinosaur?
Model good manners. If you yawn or cough or sneeze without covering your mouth, how can you expect your child to do it? If you don’t say, “Excuse me” when you are interrupting a conversation, they will never learn to.
Teach phone manners.
Teach eye contact. When your child is speaking to an adult, teach him to look the adult in the eye and speak clearly.
These are just a few small ways to start your child down the path to good manners. Before you know it, they will be polite little ladies and gentlemen, and will have you to thank for a great start!
| A．Start at the beginning. |
| B．Teach them to write thank-you notes. |
| C．Teach your child to answer the phone by introducing herself. |
| D．Do you think it’s too late to teach your children proper manners? |
| E．The best way to teach your child common manners is to model it yourself! |
| F．Mumbling or checking out his shoes is inappropriate and unacceptable. |
| G．They will learn that in order to get what they want, they will have to be polite. |
5 . Ask a classroom of children to draw a scientist, and you’ll see plenty of colored lab coats and glasses. The image ( 画像) hasn't changed much since the 1960s, but the person wearing the lab coat is changing.
A new analysis finds that more female scientists have appeared in kids? drawings in recent decades — going from nearly nonexistent in the 1960s to about a third in 2016.
The first of many “ draw-a-scientist ’’ studies asked nearly 5,000 children to draw a scientist between 1966 and 1977. Of those 5,000 drawings, only 28 drew female scientists. That was just 0.56 percent. Today, female scientists are being presented more in the media. For example, in a content analysis, 13 percent of people pictured in science feature stories of the 1960s were women or girls, compared with 44 percent in the 2000s. “That might really affect children’s idea on what a scientist should be like, ” says Miller, a Ph. D. candidate in psychology.
To look for changes in children's perception over time, the researchers conducted a meta-analysis ,combining data from 78 studies that included a total of more than 20,000 children from kindergarten to the 12th grade. On average, 28 percent of children drew female scientists in studies conducted from 1965 to 2016.
What hasn’t changed much: kids pick up stereotypes (模式化观念）by gender (性别） as they grow up. At age 6, about 70 percent of the girls in the more recent studies drew female scientists. By age 16, 75 percent drew male scientists. This is an important period in which kids are learning stereotypes. It’s important that teachers and parents present diverse examples of both male and female scientists.
1. What’s the picture of scientists drawn by a 1960s, kid like?| A．A man with long curly hair. | B．A woman with lab glasses. |
| C．A woman in a formal lab suit. | D．A man in a colored lab coat. |
| A．The improvement of women^ social status. |
| B．The kids are affected by teachers and parents. |
| C．More female scientists appear in the media. |
| D．The increasing number of female scientists. |
| A．Belief. | B．Idea. | C．Habit. | D．Growth. |
| A．it's a stereotype that scientists are generally males |
| B．girls are more influenced by stereotypes than boys |
| C．some children are born with certain stereotypes |
| D．most children tend to prefer female scientists |
