A recent study on parents who beat their children indicated that physical punishment still occurs far more frequently than previously thought but that physical punishment was ineffective. Given that 73 percent of the children who were hit waited less than 10 minutes before acting out again.
So, what is?
Many parents deal with their children’s mistakes by taking away toys and separating them from their playmates. But for strong-willed kids like I was, none of these methods were effective.
Like many kids, I wasn’t bad; I was bored. Fortunately, my father realized this fairly early on and developed a new form of “discipline” that produced immediate results and long-term positive effects.
Looking back as an adult, my father’s method of making me read the encyclopedia (百科全书)whenever I did something wrong was the best thing he could have done.
He would tell me a topic and say, “Learn about the aardvark and I’m going to quiz you shortly after.” It was punishment in the sense that I was forced to stop whatever I was doing, but it also had a purpose in that it kept my mind occupied and presented the type of mental challenge I clearly lacked.
Although unwillingly, I went to learn absolutely everything there was to know about aardvarks because I was going to figure out every question he could throw at me. If it weren’t for my driving need to prove him wrong, it may not have worked as well as it did.
So that’s just it: It was effective. It helped me change my behavior in that moment and it conditioned me to seek out books when I was bored. Obviously, that happened frequently and apparently and it worked. I grew up to become a successful lawyer and a famous writer as well.
To this day, Dad’s the only one who can beat me.
1.What is the probable main idea of Paragraph 1?
A. It reports the result of a recent study about the encyclopedia.
B. Physical punishment is useless to deal with children.
C. Physical punishment only occurred previously.
D. 73 percent of the children love physical punishment.
2.Why do many kids frequently do what they’re not allowed to do according to
the author?
A. Because they produce immediate results and long-term positive effects.
B. Because they prefer to break the “discipline” set by their parents.
C. Because they are always regarded as bad kids both at home.
D. Because they often find it’s dull in their everyday life.
3.What was the author’s father method of punishing him for his mistakes?
A. His father angrily took away his favourite toys.
B. His father separated him from his playmates.
C. His father forced him to do some reading and tested him later.
D. His father ordered him to learn about the aardvark and quizzed him shortly after.
4.What can be inferred from this passage?
A. Children who are mentally challenged are more likely to be successful.
B. Parents ought to develop a new form of discipline to educate their kids.
C. It’s absolutely necessary to punish strong-willed kids physically.
D. The stricter parents are, the few mistakes children will make.
I went to a nearby car factory today with my uncle, who works there. One thing I noticed was that most of the work was done by robots. Welding (焊接), painting, testing and many other jobs are performed by robots. The whole dashboard (仪表板) is put into a car by a robot. It would have taken two men to do so in the past, and it would have hurt their backs quite a bit.
It got me thinking: Is it a good thing that robots are replacing factory workers? On the one hand, robots generally do a more accurate job than people. They are not likely to make many mistakes. If something goes wrong with one car, an alarm goes off. They do exactly the same thing every time, but a human worker is unable to do so. On the other hand, robots reduce costs for companies. Companies don’t have to pay robots wages or injury compensation (补偿) if they’re broken. If something in a robot does go wrong, it won’t have to take time off work for a year, or even forever, as could happen to a real person if he breaks his back or burns himself while welding.
The obvious downside is that robots increase unemployment rate, which in turn increases taxes. We don’t want to pay for those who are out of work just because a company has replaced them with robots.
1.We can learn from the first paragraph that _______.
A. all the workers have been replaced by robots
B. robots do most of the work in the car factory
C. there are no workers with back strain now
D. the author’s uncle designs robots in the factory
2.The second paragraph is mainly about ________.
A. the author’s experience in a car factory
B. the advantages of robots over human workers
C. the advantages of human workers over robots
D. the management of factory workers
3.The underlined word “downside” in the last paragraph means _______.
A. weakness B. favor
C. assistance D. Advantage
4.It can be inferred from the passage that________.
A.companies refuse to pay for workers.
B.robots have completely replaced workers.
C.robots can help solve the problem of unemployment.
D.people have to pay more taxes for unemployment.
假定你是李华。最近衡水的雾霾（ smog）严重地影响了人们的生活。请你根据写作要点用英语给校报写一篇稿件。
写作要点：1．雾霾带来的危害；
2．你的建议；
3．你的希望。
注意：1．短文词数120 左右；
2．开头部分已写好，不计入总词数
3．不能使用真实姓名和学校名称。
Recently Heng Shui has often seen the heavy smog weather, which has done great harm to our daily life．
Even today, a man with good manner will politely open the door for a lady, help her put on her coat when it necessary and see her safely to the door of her home after a date. When a man take a woman out for dinner, it is considered impolite to help her with her chair when she gets up or sits down. On a crowding train or bus, it is proper for a man to offer a woman his seat, especial if she is old or carries a baby. Even when it comes to shake hands, ladies come first. It is impolite for a man to extend his hand for handshake upon first greeting. Unless a woman does not extend her hand to the man first, the man shouldn’t offer theirs.
Jim is a ___1.___ (talent) man who can do quite a lot of things. He is an honest man as ___2.___as a kind man., but he is never at ___3.___ mercy of anybody. In a way, it’s his shortcoming. The ___4.___day, he and I went to the zoo together. When he saw the tiger in the distance, he thought of a foolish ___5.___ to control the tiger by attempting ___6.___ (ride) it! If the adults had not come in time, he wouldn’t have escaped from the jaws of ___7.___ (die). Another time I went surfing with him. When he set loose, he surfed ___8.___ the direction of the middle of the sea without anybody following him. I ___9.___ next to him at the beginning, but he surfed so fast that I couldn’t keep up with him. Gradually, we couldn’t see him at all. It was not until late in the afternoon ___10.___ he returned to the shore.
完成句子：
1.我们一直在挖掘一层层的积灰，几乎有六米厚，这意味着他们可能整个冬天都在烧火。
We have been excavating layers of ash almost six metres thick, which suggests that they ①_____ _____ _____ the fire burning all winter.
2.看样子他们用磨尖的石器来切割野兽并剥皮。
It seems that they used the ②_____ ______ _______ to cut up animals and remove the skin.
3.十几岁的时候， 他就开始探求人生的深层意义。
As a teenager, he ③______ _______ ______ a deeper meaning in life.
4.每次试图破纪录的时候，Ashrita 都会达到一个体力不可逾越的极限点。
Every time Ashrita tries to break a record, he ④______ _____ ______ ______ he feels he cannot physically do any more.
5.她看到母亲和大一些的孩子在烧烤鹿肉和猪肉。
She could see her mother and the older children preparing the deer and pig meat ⑤_______ _______ _________.
