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As a parent you might never guess all the ways a good imagination benefits your child. It helps
a preschooler:
Develop social skills
As children play pretend, they explore relationships between family members, friends and co-workers and
learn more about how people interact. Playing doctor, they imagine how physicians care for their patients.
Playing house, they learn more about how parents feel about their children. Imaginative play helps develop
empathy for others. If children can imagine how it feels to be left out of a game or to lose a pet, they are better
able to help those in need. They become more willing to play fair, to share, and to cooperate.
Build self-confidence
Young children have very little control over their lives. Imagining oneself as a builder of skyscrapers or a
superhero defending the planet is empowering to a child. It helps them develop confidence in their abilities and
their potential.
Boost intellectual growth
Using the imagination is the beginning of abstract thought. Children who can see a king"s castle in a mound
of sand or a delicious dinner in a mud pie are learning to think symbolically. This skill is important in school
where a child will have to learn that numerals symbolize groups of objects, letters symbolize sounds, and so on.
Practice language skills
Kids who play pretend with their friends do a lot of talking. This helps boost their vocabulary, improve
sentence structure and enhance communication skills.
Work out fears
Playing pretend can help children work out their fears and worries. When children role-play about the big,
bad monster under the bed, they gain a sense of control over him and he doesn"t seem quite so big or so bad.
Imaginative play also helps kids vent confusing feelings they might have, such as anger toward a parent or
rivalry(竞争) with a new sibling (兄弟姐妹).
To encourage your youngster"s imagination, read to him every day. Books offer children the opportunity to
visit other worlds and create new ones of their own.
For generations children have enjoyed reading the story of Peter Pan because Peter takes them on
fascinating adventures. Reader"s Digest Young Families offers a beautiful vintage Disney edition of Peter Pan,
which is an iParenting Media Award winner. Click here to find out how you can get this classic story along
with 2 free books-Bambi and Pinocchio. |
| 1. Where can you probably find the article? |
A. Newspaper
B. Magazine
C. Internet
D. Book |
| 2. What"s not the advantage of children having a good imagination? |
A. Understanding the other people"s feeling and problems.
B. Expressing their feelings like anger toward a parent.
C. Doing good to their speeches.
D. Learning to think symbolically expands a child"s mind. |
| 3. What"s the meaning of the underlined word? |
A. improve
B. limit
C. push
D. praise |
| 4. What"s the purpose of writing the article? |
A. Tell the readers 5 benefits of encouraging the child"s imagination.
B. Advise the parents to encourage the child"s imagination.
C. Introduce some Disney stories to the readers.
D. Persuade the parents to buy books for their children. |
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Getting your children to study can be a little like getting them to eat their vegetables. 1 Make a study
time and have it at the same time every day. This will help your kid to learn to schedule their day and will
give them a sense of control over how they spend their time.
Allow them to study in block of time, such as for half an hour with a five-minute break in the middle.
2 Ideal (理想的) study times are after dinner or right after school before dinner. Never allow your
children to study in front of the television, as that will encourage passive activity. 3
4 You"ll also need to help your kids find the right place to study. After you"ve set up a good study time
for little learners, set up a good place where they can get those creative juices flowing.
Make sure there is a table or a desk and a comfortable chair.
5 This includes helping them out with their homework sometimes and being there for them with the
answers to any questions. The input you give your children during study periods will help form a bond and
help make studying enjoyable. |
A. Pick a place where your children can study properly
B. Hold them to the schedule they create for themselves.
C. Finally, spend time with your kids when they"re studying.
D. Keep the atmosphere light and offer lots of encouragement, too.
E. Instead, use TV as a treat or a reward when the homework is completed.
F. Try to stop this bad habit by offering some sort of reward.
G. One of the best ways to from good study habits for your kids is to design a schedule that they keep to. |
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Canadian scientists have found a method to help aging people get less forgetful by improving their
cognitive (认知) abilities through well-designed training. Everyone experiences some degree of memory
loss and cognitive decline as they get older. The decline usually becomes noticeable after 50, when
people may find it slightly more difficult to focus on tasks, organize everyday jobs and remember how
to do things in the right order.
A team of psychologists (心理学家) in Toronto created a strategy (策略) of cognitive training to help
people preserve these abilities."Our primary emphasis was on improving the use of general strategic abilities
because they are particularly weak to the aging process," Dr. Donald Stuss, director of the study, said in
a press release. The team examined 49 healthy older adults with normal cognitive decline. All of the
participants were between the ages of 71 and 87. Over the course of 12 weeks, psychologists taught them
methods to improve their strategic abilities. Afterwards, researchers saw a 15 to 40 percent improvement
in the memories of all participants."Over a period of six months their improvement not only maintained, but
increased," said Dr. Gordon Winocur, coordinator of the study.
The 12-week course was broken up into three four-week sections, focusing on a different skill involved
in strategic abilities: memory, goal management and psychosocial function.
The memory training emphasized how to preserve and recover information, while goal management
focused on methods to lower the chance of memory slips. Psychosocial training was aimed at increasing
the participants" confidence in their mental abilities.
"We wanted to develop a cognitive training program that would produce improvement over a relatively
short period of time, so participants could benefit more on that while they"re still functional and slow down
the rate of decline," said Winocur. "If we can work with people in the early stages of cognitive decline, then
we can slow down the rate of this decline and help them maintain a higher level of function for a longer period
of time." |
| 1. What can be a suitable title for the passage? |
A. Canadian scientists help aging people preserve memory.
B. A new way to develop a good memory.
C. Cognitive abilities are essential to memory.
D. Say no to the memory decline. |
| 2. According to the psychologists, what causes the bad memory when a man becomes old? |
A. Forgetfulness.
B. Psychosocial function.
C. General strategic abilities.
D. Goal management. |
| 3. The underlined word "maintained" means"_____". |
A. weakened
B. kept
C. changed
D. improved |
| 4. How many strategic abilities do the psychologists mainly focus on? |
A. Two.
B. Three.
C. Four.
D. Five. |
| 5. From what Winocur said in the last paragraph, we can learn that ________. |
A. the cognitive training program has been proved successful
B. the training can prevent one"s memory from declining
C. the earlier they begin the training, the better the result will be
D. Winocur aims to help aging people suffer less from memory loss and cognitive decline |
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Many researchers used to think yawning (打呵欠) was necessary for increasing oxygen intake to the
lungs (肺), while others insisted it was to increase blood pressure and the heart rate.
While both findings are correct, new studies show that the main point of yawning is to relax.
Researchers point out that we have a tendency to yawn before big events-athletes yawn before races, pilots
yawn before take-offs, and students yawn before exams. Humans are not the only creatures who yawn.
Animals have been observed to yawn before feeding time. while wild animals have a tendency to yawn
before fights.
New findings also show that yawing might be a handover from our ancestors, and represents a need
for change. Our ancestors passed it to us with other life skills. Even babies yawn as they change positions,
but children do not begin to copy other people"s yawns until the age of four or five.
Strangely enough yawning is also related to respect. Hundreds and thousands of years ago,the campfire
(篝火) served as the main gathering point for members of groups. Researchers claim that as people sat
around the fire, warming themselves, they would yawn if the leader yawned, as a mark of respect. Those
who were more supportive of the leader tended to yawn more easily.
Despite all these findings, scientists still haven"t figured out why we yawn before bedtime. Then again,
it may be another way of demanding a change-enough of TV, it"s time to go to bed! |
| 1. What is the text mainly about? |
A. People who tend to yawn.
B. Why we yawn.
C. The history of yawning
D. The disadvantages of yawning. |
| 2. According to researchers, yawning before an exam suggests that _____. |
A. you need to relax.
B. you don"t like taking exams
C. you want to control your heart rate
D. you"re sleepy |
| 3. The underlined word "handover" in the third paragraph probably refers to _____. |
A. a need for change
B. something our ancestors have passed on to us
C. the way in which people copy others"yawns
D. a lost life skill |
| 4. From the fourth paragraph we can leam that _____. |
A. people used to yaxvn to draw attention
B. people yawn when they feel warm
C. yawning happened at night in ancient times
D. yawning was a social skill in ancient times |
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Is early childhood education really necessary? Early childhood education primarily focuses on learning
through playing to develop the child"s physical, sensory (感觉的), communicational and social development.
Early childhood education has become a concern of the government, who pushes poor children to be formally
trained before they are old enough for the kindergarten.
There are good reasons for the government to push early childhood education. Studies have shown that
orphan children who did not receive good care and education become developmentally delayed causing failure
in school, and even in life. Further studies show that poor children who take part in Head Start programs are
more prepared for school, less likely to end up in Special Education classes, and are less likely to receive public
help or go to jail.
There are also negative parts of putting a child in formal education programs too early. Time Magazine online
explains that the younger the child, the less his chances of catching up with first-grade work. I have personally
witnessed many children of my generation who went to Head Start programs became frustrated and bored with
school before they finished high school. Yet parents have been sure that the earlier the child starts school, the
better off he or she is, so they push to start childhood education earlier.
Actually while early formal education of poor children does show great gains in the early elementary years,
studies also show that this head start is really a"false start", as the gains are lost in middle and high school years.
It seems that environment is a bigger factor on life"s success than early education. Head Start programs have
not achieved its original goal in closing the achievement gap in poor and middle school children. Perhaps it is
time to find other ways to close that gap. |
| 1. The purpose of the government valuing early childhood education is _____. |
A. to develop the children"s communication
B. to give orphaned children good care and education
C. to get the children prepared for the kindergarten
D. to train the children formally and regularly |
| 2. According to the studies which of the following is True? |
A. Children with good early education may have a rich life.
B. The orphaned children are usually unhappy in their life.
C. Children without early education can do well at school.
D. Head Start programs are helpful to the poor children. |
| 3. The author"s attitude toward early childhood education is _____. |
A. puzzling
B. objective
C. indifferent
D. approving |
| 4. The main idea of the last passage is that _____. |
A. early childhood education is very necessary
B. Head Start programs have helped the children a lot
C. environment is the most important to life"s success
D. better ways should be found to help the poor children |
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We"ve used the wind as an energy source for a long time. The Babylonians and Chinese were using wind
power to pump water for irrigating crops 4,000 years ago, and sailing boats were around long before that.
Wind power was used in the Middle Ages, in Europe, to grind (磨碎) corn, which is where the term"windmill"
comes from.
We can use the energy in the wind by building a tall tower, with a large propeller on the top. The wind
blows the propellor round, which turns a generator to produce electricity. We tend to build many of these
towers together, to make a"wind farm" and produce more electricity. The more towers, the more wind, and
the larger the propellors, the more electricity we can make. It"s only worth building wind farms in places that
have strong, steady winds, although boats and caravans (大篷车) increasingly have small wind generators to
help keep their batteries charged.
The best places for wind farms are in coastal areas, at the tops of rounded hills, open plains and gaps in
mountains-places where the wind is strong and reliable. Some are offshore. To be worthwhile, you need an
average wind speed of around 25 km/h. Most wind farms in the UK are in Cornwall or Wales. Isolated places
such as farms may have their own wind generators. In California, several"wind farms" supply electricity to
homes around Los Angeles.
The propellors are large, to obtain energy from the largest possible volume of air. The blades can be
angled to cope with varying wind speeds. Some designs use vertical turbines (垂直涡轮机), which don"t
need to be turned to face the wind. The towers are tall, to get the propellors as high as possible, up to where
the wind is stronger. This means that the land beneath can still be used for farming. |
| 1. The first paragraph aims to introduce to us ______. |
A. the function of wind power
B. the source of wind power
C. the nations using wind power
D. the history of using wind power |
| 2. The best places for building the wind farm are places where ______. |
A. boats and caravans can often be seen
B. isolated farms don"t have enough electricity
C. there are less human activities
D. the wind is strong and reliable |
| 3. We can infer from the passage that ______. |
A. wind farms will not take up too much farming land
B. wind farms need no fuel because wind is free
C. the blades can be angled to turn to face the wind wherever it comes from
D. the higher and larger the towers are, the stronger the wind is |
| 4. What can be a suitable title for the passage? |
A. Where to build a wind farm.
B. ABC of the using of wind energy.
C. How to make best use of wind.
D. Wind energy is the best energy. |
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