If you’re someone who looks in the mirror every day and focuses only on any small flaw (瑕疵), you’re not alone. For many people, struggling with image issues (形象问题) is a
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2 . Why do young adult children become independent much later than they did in 1970, when the average age of independent living was 21? Why is the mental health of today’s kids not so good as that of children in the 1960s and before?
The answer lies in two words: parental involvement (参与). Those two words best show the difference between “old” child raising and new, post-1960s parenting. Back then, parents were not to be highly involved with their kids. They were there in case of crisis (危机), but they stood a safe distance from their kids and allowed them to experience the benefits of the trial-and-error process (试错过程). They gave their children long ropes and made them lie in the beds they made and stew in their own juices. That was how children learned to be responsible and determined.
Today’s parents, however, help their kids with almost everything. They organize their children’s games, social lives and after-school activities. They help their kids with homework, help them study for tests, help them solve the disagreement with classmates, and get involved.
Researchers studied 30 years’ data of parent involvement in children’s growth. They found that parental help with homework lowers a child’s school achievement. Parents who manage a child’s social life prevent the children developing good social skills. Parents who manage a child’s after-school activities grow kids who don’t know how to fill their own free time. Parents who get involved in their kids’ disagreements with classmates grow kids who don’t know how to avoid trouble.
These kids have anxieties and fears of all sorts and don’t want to leave home. And their parents, when the time comes, don’t know how to stop being parents.
1. Why did the writer use the questions at the beginning?A.To blame the young adult children. |
B.To acquire answers to the questions. |
C.To introduce the topic of the text. |
D.To make a proposal for today’s parents. |
A.By experiencing the crisis all alone. |
B.By rising to the challenges independently. |
C.By lying in bed and stewing in their juices. |
D.By parents being highly involved with them. |
A.Supportive. | B.Unfavorable. |
C.Unclear. | D.Concerned. |
A.The Lost Parents. | B.Be Independent. |
C.Relationship on the rocks. | D.Let Kids Grow Wings. |
3 . Park guards who watch North America’s highest mountain say inexperienced and overconfident climbers are taking more risks and endangering themselves and other climbers. The guards suggest many climbers are trying to move up the mountain too fast after having a year of.
Denali in southern Alaska is 6,190 meters above sea level. So, climbing it requires a high level of skill. Climbers also need to acclimate to high altitudes (海拔), which is not needed for most mountains in the US.
The National Park Service recently made a statement warning that many climbers in the Alaska Range are showing signs of inexperience and overconfidence. After reporting no deaths in 2018 and 2019, at least two people have already died on the mountain in 2021. Two others were seriously injured, officials said.
Earlier this month, a skier from the state of Colorado died after falling into a very deep cut in the ice. A climber from the state of Idaho was killed by a large falling piece of ice.
The guards made their statement after a Canadian climber was seriously injured after falling nearly 305meters. He was not wearing climbing ropes. Other climbers reported the fall. People in a helicopter (直升机) studying mountain ice in the area were able to save the man,park officials said.
The Park Service statement named several reasons for the increase in injuries and deaths. They include extreme tiredness, untested body reactions to high altitudes, quickly changing weather, and not bringing the right equipment.
In recent years,guards said they have seen more climbers try to make Denali’s top by climbing the 2,134 meters from the final base camp to the top in one day. This is nearly impossible to do except for the most experienced climbers.
Experts suggest that climbers take 17 to 2l days to reach the top of Denali. That includes rest days and extra days to wait out bad weather.
1. What does the underlined phrase “acclimate to” in paragraph 2 probably mean?A.Get used to. | B.Get tired of. |
C.Take control of. | D.Look forward to. |
A.They are not so confident. | B.They face higher altitudes. |
C.Most of them are beginners. | D.Deaths have come up among them. |
A.He didn’t train himself to climb. | B.He didn’t make sure of his safety. |
C.He didn’t stay with other climbers. | D.He knew little about the mountain ice. |
A.Dangers of having little climbing experience. |
B.Results of climbing mountains in a hurry. |
C.Causes of the climbing accidents. |
D.Rules of safe mountain climbing. |
4 . I am a freshman at Orange High School. In 2013, I founded an organization called Love For The Elderly. So many elderly people have no one to care for them, and no one to love them. When I say this, I am talking about pure love, unconditional love that shows kindness no matter what the situations may be.
The elderly have smoothed the pathway of success for our generation. They should be shown appreciation (感激) and kindness, but are often forgotten. I am sure all of you have someone in your hearts who has been at a nursing home. Think of them while I say this; they should get the best, nothing but the best. The elderly are such an unusual group of people, and their shining wisdom can most certainly be learned from. This idea of showing appreciation to the elderly reverberated (回响) inside my head, until finally, I decided it was time to step up and make a difference.
My love for and ability in writing led me to create an organization, where people from all across the world send nameless letters filled with kindness and joy, from Iceland, Romania, Finland, Australia, and more. I then send these letters to senior centers, and nursing homes located all across the country. To this date, I have collected over 1,000 letters, and the reaction I have received from these organizations has been truly unbelievable.
This past month, I had the opportunity to receive $100 from KindSpring through their monthly kindness competition to help my organization. This money has been of great help. We do not receive much money, and so it helped to pay for many costs, including postage and envelopes. This act of kindness has been very helpful to my organization, and I could not be more appreciative. If any of you would like to get involved in my organization, please visit lovefortheelderly. org.
1. Why did the author set up his organization?A.To help the elderly with their daily life. | B.To organize activities for the elderly. |
C.To offer true love to the elderly. | D.To raise money for the elderly. |
A.They are being treated well. | B.They should end up in senior centers. |
C.They are wiser than the young. | D.They don’t get enough attention. |
A.The letters received worldwide. | B.His writing ability. |
C.His family’s encouragement. | D.The support from senior centers. |
A.The author doesn’t have much money. |
B.The elderly were very thankful to the author. |
C.The author turned to KindSpring for help. |
D.The organization can’t be larger. |
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7 . Children are excited to find brightly wrapped presents under the tree on Christmas morning. They can’t wait to open the wrapping and get the toys that were on their wish lists, such as toy cars. But after the excitement wears off, those toys are usually left to the corner of the toy box and the kids are searching for something else to do. But it doesn’t have to be that way.
A study from the University of Toronto found that giving your child experiences as a gift, instead of toys, improves your child’s intelligence and makes stronger parent-child bonds. “Often the focus is only on whether someone likes a gift rather than focusing on a fundamental purpose of gift giving. Knowing that will foster relationships between the giver and the receiver,” said lead researcher Cindy Chan.
Chan suggested that when you are buying a holiday gift or birthday gift, you should buy something that kids can experience with you. This can be movie or concert tickets, a CD from a performance you already saw to keep the memory alive. For example, for kids, a trip to a museum, going ice-skating or a book that the family can read together over and over again are valuable gifts.
It is found that giving your kids too many toys can be counterproductive and make kids at a loss. The best way to make kids happy is to spend time together.
So, if you want happy and intelligent kids, spending time with them and making memories are the best gifts you can give them. That’s not to say that there shouldn’t be any toys but change the focus from getting things to making lasting memories.
1. How do children usually deal with toys after the excitement disappears?A.They give them to their friends | B.They put them aside. |
C.They add them to the wish lists. | D.They throw them into the rubbish bin. |
A.The purpose of giving gifts. | B.The advantage of giving toys. |
C.The excitement caused by toys. | D.The gift receiver’s hobby. |
A.Give kids well-wrapped presents. | B.Do something together with kids. |
C.Buy kids as many toys as possible | D.Encourage kids to do sport in school. |
A.The pleasure of giving and receiving | B.A lesson from kids at Christmas |
C.Dude Perfect built on friendship | D.Dude Perfect achieved their goal |
8 . Nine out of ten U.S. high school students aren’t getting enough exercise, according to a recent study. Colorado State University (CSU) professor Kaigang Li researched the fitness and exercise habits of kids in their late teens. Rather than depending on surveys to get data (数据), Li asked the students in the study to wear accelerometers-devices (设备) that measure the amount (量) of physical activity — so that he could know how much daily exercise the teens were getting. According to the Centers for Disease Control’s (CDC) recommended (推荐) daily amount of exercise for kids to stay healthy, Li found that 91 percent of the 15-to-18-year-olds did not meet the requirements.
Earlier studies have shown that the amount of daily physical activity is likely to go down from childhood to late teenage years. For example, only 0.04 percent of 9 year-olds exercise less than an hour daily, but the number increases to 70 percent for 15-year-olds. And over the age of 15 kids become even less active.
Li found that, after high school, physical activity levels got even lower. Those who did attend college were slightly more active than those who didn’t, and of the college students, those living outside schools exercised less than on-campus students.
Kids who don’t get enough exercise often face serious health problems later in life. Li had a different set of recommendations for college students and those who don’t attend college.
“Colleges should ask students to do more physical activities -not just to build more centers, but to encourage students with more programs,” said Li.
For those who don’t attend college, Li believes that “government and communities” should know their needs and do more.
Part of the reason kids are not getting enough exercise may be because of the fact that only 29 percent of U.S. high schools have daily gym classes.
1. What do we know about Li’s research?A.It was developed from surveys. |
B.It asked students to exercise every day. |
C.It got data with the help of accelerometers. |
D.It didn’t agree with CDC’s recommendations. |
A.Kids exercise less and less as they get older. |
B.Kids around 15 are the most active in exercising. |
C.Kids without enough exercise face more health problems. |
D.Kids who attend college practice more than those who don’t. |
A.Working with the local government and communities. |
B.Giving students more chances for physical activity. |
C.Preventing students from living outside schools. |
D.Increasing the number of gyms in the colleges. |
A.Pushing college students to get exercise is not easy. |
B.CDC suggests that teens should exercise every day. |
C.Teens who exercise daily often live a healthy life. |
D.90% of U S. teens aren’t getting enough exercise. |
9 . It was 3:12 a. m. when nine-year-old Glenn Kreamer awoke to the smell of burning. Except for the crackling of flames somewhere below there was not a sound in the two-storey house at Baldwin, Long Island. With his father away on night duty at a local factory, Glenn was worried about the safety of his mother, his sister Karen, 14 and his 12-year-old brother Todd. He ran downstairs through the smoke filled house to push and pull at Karen and Todd until they sat up. Then he helped each one through the house to the safety of the garden. There, his sister and brother, taking short and quick breaths and coughing, collapsed on the lawn.
The nine-year-old raced back into the house and upstairs to his mother’s room. He found it impossible to waked her up. Mrs. Kreamer, a victim of the smoke, was unconscious, and there was nobody to help Glenn carry her to the garden. But the boy remained calm and, as a fireman said later, “acted with all the self-control of a trained adult.”
On the bedroom telephone, luckily still working, Glenn called his father and, leaving Mr. Kreamer to telephone the fire brigade and ambulance service, got on with the task of saving his mother.
First he filled a bucket with water from the bathroom and threw water over his mother and her bed. Then, with a wet cloth around his head he went back to the garden.
He could hear the fire engine coming up, but how would the firemen find his mother in the smoke-filled house where flames had almost swallowed up the ground floor? Grasping firmly a ball of string(线绳)from the garage, Glenn raced back into the house and dashed upstairs to his mother’s room. Tying one end of the string to her hand, he ran back, laying out the string as he went, through the hall and back out into the garden.
Minutes later he was telling fire chief John Coughlan: “The string will lead you to mother.” Mrs. Kreamer was carried to safety as the flames were breaking through her bedroom floor.
1. Why did Glenn run downstairs first?A.He wanted to find out what was happening. |
B.He was worried about his mother’s safety. |
C.He wanted to save his sister and brother. |
D.He went to see if his father had come back from work. |
A.He put a wet cloth around his head. |
B.He threw water all over himself. |
C.He hid himself in the bathroom. |
D.He rushed out to the lawn. |
A.Glenn. |
B.Glenn’s father. |
C.Glenn’s sister. |
D.Glenn’s neighbor. |
A.By throwing water all over her and her bed. |
B.By carrying her to safety with his brother. |
C.By pushing and pulling at her. |
D.By tying a string to her hand. |
A.his father had taught him to do so on the phone |
B.he had learned something about first aid |
C.he had dealt with the emergency calmly and wisely |
D.he had followed his mother’s instruction |
10 . Nowadays, the Internet is usually one of the first places a lonely heart turns to as the following story shows.
A 63-year-old retired woman in Zhengzhou, Henan province made headlines two days after she posted an advertisement on her Wechat page, in which she said she wanted to find a young female companion for a trip to Sanya, China’s Southern Hainan island.
In the advertisement, the Chinese dama (Chinese term for middle-aged and elderly women) surnamed Li said she is in good health, and she is particularly looking forward to a sea trip this winter.
“I have a daughter who works outside, and I don’t want to disturb her. But I’m afraid of traveling alone, so I am looking for a sweet, happy young woman, preferably aged between 19 and 25 to travel with me.”
At the end of the advertisment, dama Li extended her sincerity by saying she would cover all the expenses of the trip, including accommodation(食宿)and air tickets, plus an iPhone 7 as a bonus gift. Li said all she wants is just to find a sweet “daughter” who could help her take a lot of photos. But Li’s recruitment (招募) has also received many online arguments.
1. Why did the retired woman post the advertisement on her Wechat page?A.To show she was very rich. |
B.To tell her daughter she was lonely. |
C.To receive as many likes as possible. |
D.To hire a young female companion for a trip. |
A.Some people don’t agree with what the woman has done. |
B.Many young girls want to be the woman’s companion. |
C.The woman’s daughter is unwilling to travel with her. |
D.What the woman did is just for fun. |
A.The Internet is a good place for people to turn to |
B.Lonely mother hires “daughter” for a trip |
C.Traveling alone is not encouraged |
D.Daughter should care for mother |