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than in the classroom.Therefore the great influence of parents can"t be ignored or discounted by the teacher. They can become strong supports of the school or they can consciously or unconsciously prevent the
school from accomplishing its aims.
Administrators have been aware of the need to keep_parents_apprised_of the newer methods used in
schools.Many principals have conducted workshops explaining such matters as the reading readiness
program and developmental math.
Moreover, the classroom teacher can also play an important role in explaining to parents what they
should do.The informal tea and many interviews carried on during the year, as well as new ways of
reporting pupils" progress, can significantly aid the interchange of ideas between school and home.
Suppose that a father has been drilling Junior in arithmetic processes night after night. In a friendly
intervie w, the teacher can help the parent change his method.He might be persuaded to let Junior
participate in discussing the family budget, buying the food, using a measuring cup at home, setting the
clock, calculating mileage on a trip and engage in scores of other activities that have a mathematical basis.
If the father follows the advice, it is reasonable to assume that he will soon realize his son is making
satisfactory progress in math and at the same time, enjoying the work.
Too often, however, teachers" conferences with parents are devoted to unimportant accounts of
children" s wrongdoing, complaints about laziness and poor work habits, and suggestions for punishments
and rewards at home.
What is needed is a more creative approach in which the teacher, as a professional advisor, plants
ideas in parents"minds for the best use of the many hours that the child spends out of the classroom.In
this way, the school and the home join forces in fostering the fullest development of youngsters"
competence.
1. The underlined phrase"keep parents apprised of"in Para.2 probably means to let parents________.
A. judge
B. know
C. design
D. develop
2. What is the purpose of the schools" informal tea and interviews?
A. To improve the relationship between teachers and parents.
B. To explain to parents the change of the school curriculum.
C. To report students" misdoings and suggestions for punishments.
D. To help develop good communication between school and home.
3. Why does the author provide the example in Paragraph 4?
A. To help parents know the importance of home activities.
B. To show how the teacher can guide in home training.
C. To prove parents are nonprofessional advisors.
D. To advice parents to teach kids math at home.
4. From the passage we learn that the author________.
A. thinks teachers should do better as professionals
B. is worried about children" s performance
at homeC. is satisfied with the present state of school education
D. believes time spent out of the classroom has been wasted
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success in training children, the first condition is to become a child oneself.It means to treat the child as
really one"s equal, that is, to show him the same consideration, the same kind of confidence one shows to
an adult.It means not to affect the child to be what we ourselves want him to become, but to be affected
by the impression of what the child himself is: not to treat the child with cheating, or by force, but with the
seriousness and true love suitable to his own character.
Not leaving the child in peace is the greatest problem of present methods of training children.Parents
do not see that during the whole life, the need of peace is never greater than in the years of childhood, an
inner peace under all outside liveliness.
But what does a child experience?Corrections, orders, interference (干涉), the whole livelong day.
The child is always required to leave something alone, or to do something different, to find something
different, or to want something different from what he does, or finds, or wants.He is always guided in
another direction from the true inner will that is leading him.All of this is caused by our socalled enthusiasm
in directing, advising, and helping the child to become the same model produced in one assembly lin
e (流水线). Understanding, the deepest characteristic of love, is almost always absent.To bring up a child means carrying one"s soul in one"s hand: it means never placing ourselves in danger
of meeting the cold look on the face of the child.It means the truth that the ways of injuring the child are
limitless while the ways of being useful to him are few.How seldom does the educator remember that the
child, even at four or five years of age, has already had a sharp feeling!The smallest mistrust a
ndunkindness, the least act of injustice, leave wounds that last for life in the heart of the child.While, on the
other hand, unexpected friendliness and kindness make quite as deep an impression on those soft senses.
1. The passage mainly talks about________.
A. misleading zones and right ways ineducating children
B. current problems in training children
C. what should be taught to children
D. the importance of educating children
2. Children, according to the passage, are experiencing________.
A. corrections, orders and peace
B. orders, interference and peace
C. interference, orders and corrections
D. peace, guide and praise
3. If you were a parent, which of the following methods is TRUE according to the text?
A. You could treat your children not so seriously for they don"t understand many things.
B. You could train your children as you wish them to be.
C. You should sometimes leave your children in peace as they wish in their childhood.
D. You should correct your children immediately if their behavior is not what you want.
4. We may conclude that the author believes people should________.
A. play with the children with enthusiasm all day long just to please them
B. try to give an order, advice and suggestions to their children at any time
C. treat their children just as the way they treat an adult in their daily life
D. regard their children as an equal to them and have understanding of the inner peace of them
see some meateating plants.Take bladderworts (狸藻类植物), a kind of such plant,for example. They
appear so small and grow in a quiet pond. "But these are the fastestknown killers of the plant kingdom,
able to capture a small insect in 1/50 of a second using a trap door!"
Once the trap door closes on the victim, the enzymes (酶) similar to those in the human stomach slowly digest the insect. When dinner is over, the plant opens the trap door and is ready to trap again.
Meateating plants grow mostly in wet areas with soil that doesn"t offer much food value. In such
conditions, these amazing plants have developed insect traps to get their nutritional needs over thousands
of years. North America has more such plants than any other continents.
Generally speaking, the traps may have attractive appearance to fool the eye, like pitcher plants, which get their name because they look like beautiful pitchers (a container like a bottle) full of nectar (花蜜)．
The Asian pitcher plant, for example, has bright colors and an attractive halfclosed lid. Curious insects
are tempted to come close and take a sip, and then slide down the slippery (光滑的) slope to their deaths.
Hairlike growths along the pitcher walls ensure that nothing can escape, and the digestive enzymes can get to work. A tiny insect can be digested in a few hours, but a fly takes a couple of days.
Some of these pitchers are large enough to hold two gallons. Meateating plants only eat people in
science fiction movies, but sometimes a bird or other small animals will discover that a pitcher plant isn"t a
good place to get a drink.
B. capture an insect in 1/50 of a second
C. be found floating on a quiet lake
D. digest a fly in a few hours
B. producing nectar
C. tempting insects to come close
D. enjoying a dinner
B. don"t need much food value
C. can make the most of such conditions
D. have developed digestive enzymes
B. A dog.
C. A little bird.
D. A little fish.
Journal of Health and Social Behavior.
However, the study also found that when less-educated people did suffer stress it was more severe and had a larger impact on their health.
From this researchers have concluded that the day-to-day factors that cause stress are not random
(随意的). Where you are in society determines the kinds of problems that you have each day, and how
well you will deal with them.
The research team interviewed a national sample of 1,031 adults daily for eight days about their stress
level and health.People without a high school diploma reported stress on 30 percent of the study days,
people with a high school degree reported stress 38 percent of the time, and people with college degrees
reported stress 44 percent of the time.
"Less advantaged people are less healthy on a daily basis and are more likely to have downward turns
in their health," lead researcher Dr.Joseph Grzywacz, of Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center,
said in a prepared statement. "The downward turns in health were connected with daily stressors
(紧张刺激物) and the effect of daily stressors on their health is much more devastating (毁灭性的) for
the less advantaged."
Grzywacz suggested followup research to determine why lesseducated people report fewer days of
stress when it is known that their stress is more severe and lasting.
"If something happens every day,maybe it"s not seen as a stressor," Grzywacz says."Maybe it is just
life."
B. social status
C. body weight
D. work experience
B. during one of eight days
C. all by Grzywacz
D. in groups
B. People without high school degrees.
C. People with high school degrees.
D. People with college degrees.
B. the effect of education on their health is
C. the level of their education is
D. the degree of their health concern is
also have difficulty naming it.One sign of multiple sclerosis is losing the ability to speak clearly.It is
estimated that more than 2.5 million people worldwide suffer from multiple sclerosis.
MS is a disease of the brain and spinal cord (脊髓). In patients with MS, the covering of the nerves
is destroyed.This temporarily blocks signals that pass through the nerves to the muscles of the body and
back to the brain.The disease especially affects the ability to see, the sense of touch and the use of the
arms and legs.Most forms of MS are described as progressive.This means that the disease gets worse as
time passes.
For years, doctors believed that the cause of multiple sclerosis was environment.They believed this
because most of those suffering from the disease lived in northern Europe and the northern half of the
United States.In recent years, however, doctors have changed their beliefs about the causes of MS.
Recent studies support the theory that there are several causes.The studies appear to show that genetic
problems might be involved in making people likely to get the disease.The studies show that environmental causes like viruses or bacteria are more involved.However, researchers have not identified just what those causes might be.Another likely cause is a problem within the body"s defences against diseases, when the
defences misunderstand signals and attack the body.
Recently, an American study shows that women who get plenty of vitamin D during pregnancy(怀
孕) may be protecting their babies from developing MS later in life.Their body produces the vitamin after
contact between the skin and sunlight.
Scientists say multiple sclerosis does not appear to be passed from parents to children.Yet it does
appear to be found in families.The National Multiple Sclerosis Society says one in every 750 Americans
is at risk of developing MS.But the risk rises to one in every 40 people among those who have a close
family member with the disease.
There is no cure for multiple sclerosis.MS does not always result in severe disability.Many patients are
able to live a normal life.The National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke says some patients do well with no treatment at all.It notes that many medicines to treat the disease have serious side effects while some carry risks.
1. Which of the following is the sign of MS?
A. The patient can"t name the disease.
B. The patient is short of vitamin D.
C. The patient hasn"t good sense of touch.
D. The patient can"t speak properly.
2. According to the passage, a person is likely to get the disease MS mainly because________.
A. he lives in northern Europe
B. his defences fight against a disease
C. the covering of his muscles is destroyed
D. he has been infected with viruses or bacteria
3. What can be learnt from the passage?
A. Vitamin D is a way to cure the disease MS.
B. There are effective medicines to cure the disease MS.
C. The disease MS must be passed among close family members.
D. The disease MS doesn"t have seriously bad effects on many patients.
4. What could be the best title of the passage?
A. MS, a newlyfound disease
B. MS, a troublesome disease
C. MS, a mysterious disease
D. MS, a deadly disease
Chinese people with large age differences and from all walks of life.Thirty years later, some of them
anxiously wait outside exam spots, praying for good luck for their only child.
The Chinese describe the CEE, or gaokao in Chinese, as "thousands of troops on a singlelog bridge
" because of the limited number of places at universities.For students in the countryside, the tough exams
may be their only opportunity to escape the hardship of country life.
A survey conducted by the Ministry of Education and the China Youth Daily showed 89.6% of
those people felt their fate was changed by the exam.Among those who said their fate was "totally
changed", 69.1% came from the countryside and only 30.9% were from cities.Some Chinese think too
much emphasis is placed on having a university diploma (文凭). It is believed that a person will not find
a proper job without a college certificate, and that there are increasingly fewer jobs even for college
graduates.
Although the CEE is still a major means of selecting people for higher education after 30 years of
development, the society has gradually adjusted its standard.
A lot of people think that the CEE needs reforming, but these reforms will have to be gradual.While
debates over the exam continue, more people believe it is the only open, fair and just way of talent
selection.