If parents bring up a child with the aim of turning the child into a genius（天才）

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If parents bring up a child with the aim of turning the child into a genius（天才）, they will cause great damage to him. According to several leading educational experts, this is one of the biggest mistakes that some parents make. Generally, the child will understand very well what the parents expect. and will fall. Unrealistic（不现实）expectations of the parents can cause great damage to children.
However, if parents are not unrealistic about what they expect their children to do, but are hopeful in a sensible（明智）way, the child may succeed in doing very well—especially if the parents are very supportive（支持的）to their children.
Michael Li is very lucky. He likes music and his parents help him a lot by taking him to concerts and let him attend piano and violin lessons. Although Michael"s mother knows very little about music, his father is a good musician. However, he never makes Michael enter music competitions if he is unwilling.
Michael"s friend, Winston Chen, however, is not so lucky. Although both his parents are successful musicians, they set too high a standard（水平）for Winston. They want their son to be as successful as they are and so they enter him in every piano competition held. They are very unhappy when he does not win. “When I was your age I used to win every competition I enter.” Winston"s father tells him. Winston is always afraid that he will disappoint his parents and now he always quiet and unhappy.
小题1:The main idea of the passage is _________.

A．how parents should make a child a musician

B．how parents should bring up a child

C．what differences there are between the two boys

D．what aim is easier for a child to reach

小题2:Winston"s parents set so high a standard for him that _______.

A．he has to do his best to win every competition

B．he has made greater progress in music

C．he is afraid he may disappoint them

D．he often wants to kill himself someday

小题3:It is one of the parents’ worst mistakes if ______.

A．they want their child to be a musician

B．they help their child to win music competition

C．they don"t care for their child"s education much

D．they make their child try to achieve too much

小题4: According to the writer"s opinion, _________.

A．it"s unimportant to let the children develop（=grow）in the way they want

B．sensible parents can train their children to succeed in everything

C．parents should be realistic and supportive to their children

D．unrealistic parents should arrange（安排）private lessons for their children

答案

小题1:B
小题2:C
小题3:D
小题4:C

解析

试题分析：这篇短文的主要意思是家长对孩子不现实的期望会对孩子造成伤害。文章中还给我们举了一正一反两个例子来给我们证明这一点。
小题1:主旨大意题。纵观全文，在文章中第一段告诉了我们家长对孩子不现实的期望会对孩子造成伤害，第二段告诉我们如果家长用明智的方式对孩子寄予希望，孩子反而会更可能成功。故这篇文章讲的是如何教育孩子的问题，故选B。
小题2:细节理解题。根据文章的最后一段Winston is always afraid that he will disappoint his parents and now he always quiet and unhappy. Winston总是害怕他会令他的父母失望，所以他总是很安静不开心。故选C。
小题3:推理判断题。根据文章中this is one of the biggest mistakes that some parents make可知家长对孩子期望过高，会让孩子有更大的压力，在强大的压力下，孩子反而会失败。这是家长们犯的一个严重的错误。故选D。
小题4:推理判断题。根据文章大意，家长不应该对孩子期望过高，施加太大的压力，而是应该现实一点，支持孩子的做法。故选C。