“It hurts me more than you” and “This is for your own good” — these are the statements my mother used to make years ago when I had to learn Latin, clean my room, stay home and do homework.
That was before we entered the permissive period in education in which we decided it was all right not to push our children to achieve their best in school. The schools and the educators made it easy for us. They taught that it as all right to be parents who take a let-alone policy. We stopped making our children do homework. We gave them calculators, turned on the television, left the teaching to the teachers and went on vacation.
Now teachers, faced with children who have been developing at their own pace for the past 15 years, are realizing we’ve made a terrible mistake. One such teacher is Sharon Klompus who speaks of her students “so passive” and wonders what has happened. Nothing is demanded of them, she believes. Television, says Klompus, contributes to children’s passivity. “We’re talking about a generation of kids who've never been hurt or hungry. They have learned somebody will always do it for them, instead of saying 'go and look it up’, you tell them the answer. It takes greater energy to say no to a kid.”
Yes, it does. It takes energy and it takes work. It’s time for parents to end their vacation and come back to work. It's time to take the car away, to turn the TV off, to tell them it hurts you more than them but it's for their own good. It's time to start telling them no again.
1.Children are becoming more inactive in study because _______.
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A．they watch TV too often |
B．they have done too much homework |
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C．they have to fulfill too many duties |
D．teachers are too strict with them |
2.By “permissive period in education” (L.1, Para. 2) the author means a time _______.
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A．when everything can be taught at school |
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B．when every child can be educated |
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C．when children are permitted to receive education |
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D．when children are allowed to do what they wish to |
3.The main idea of the passage is that _______.
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A．parents should leave their children alone |
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B．kids should have more activities at school |
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C．it's time to be more strict with our kids |
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D．parents should always set a good example to their kids |
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WHERE TO STAY IN BOSWELL YOUR GUIDE TO OUR BEST HOTEL |
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Name / Address |
Numbers of Rooms |
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Double |
Special Attractions |
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FIRST HOTEL 222 Edward Road Tel. 414-6433 |
120 |
$25 |
$35 |
Air-conditioned rooms, French restaurant, Night club, Swimming-pool, Shops, Coffee shop and bar, Telephone, radio and TV in each room, Close to the city center |
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FAIRVIEW HOTEL 129 North Road Tel. 591-5620 |
50 |
$12 |
$18 |
Close to the air-port, Telephone in each room, Bar, Restaurant, Garage, Swimming- pool |
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ORCHARD HOTEL 233 Edward Road Tel. 641-6646 |
120 |
$15 |
$20 |
Facing First Hotel, European restaurant, Coffee shop, Dry-cleaning, Shops, TV, Night-club |
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OSAKA HOTEL 1264 Venning Road Tel. 643-820 |
180 |
$30 |
$50 |
Air-Conditioned rooms, Japanese and Chinese restaurants, Shops, Swimming-pool, Large garden |
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1.The number of the rooms in the best hotels in Boswell is _______.
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A．120 |
B．450 |
C．240 |
D．470 |
2.If a Japanese traveller likes to eat in French restaurant, _______ is the right place for him to go to.
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A．233 Edward Road |
B．1264 Venning Road |
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C．222 Edward Road |
D．129 North Road |
3.Which hotel faces the Orchard Hotel?
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A．The Osaka Hotel. |
B．The Fairview Hotel. |
C．The First Hotel. |
D．No hotel. |
Tracy Wong is a well-known Chinese-American writer. But her writing 41 was something she picked up by herself. After her first 42 , teaching disabled children, she became a part-time writer for IBM. 43 , writing stories was simply a 44 interest. Tracy sent three of her stories to a publisher(出版商). 45 , they immediately suggested that she put them together to make a single one long 46 and paid Tracy a $50,000 in advance. “A pretty money,” said the publisher, “for 47 writer.”
48 Tracy’s characters (人物) are interesting, her stories sometimes 49 readers uneasy: those about the supernatural. “My mother believed I could 50 the afterlife world,” she told a close friend. “She used to have me speak with my grandmother, who died many years ago.”
“Can I? I don’t think I can,” Tracy said with a laugh. “But I do have 51 when things come to me 52 .” Once, she was wondering how to complete a 53 set in ancient (古代的) China. 54 the doorbell rang. It was a FedEx delivery man, with a copy of a book on Chinese 55 . It came without her having 56 it.
Though she has published 10 books, Tracy has remained 57 by her fame. She lives in the same 58 she lived 27 years ago — although in a more comfortable home. There’s more room for 59 in her life----and it wasn’t just 60 .
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21.C 前后照应逻辑推理 注意与后句的比较。作者不仅仅只是单一的写作了，作者的生活中有了更多的机会或空间来享受生活的多样化(variety)。网上下载，此题原
John rushed out in a hurry， the door .
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A．leaving; unlocked |
B．leaving; unlocking |
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C．left; unlocked |
D．to leave; unlocking |
----Why are you late for school ? ----Because our car _______ halfway to the destination.
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A．broke in |
B．broke down |
C．broke out |
D．broke up |
With a lot of difficulties ___ , they went to the seashore and had a good rest.
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A．settled |
B．settling |
C．to settle |
D．being settled |
