Parents who help their children with homework may actually be bringing down their school grades. Other forms of parental involvement, including volunteering at school and observing a child's class, also fail to help, according to the most recent study on the topic.
The findings challenge a key principle of modern parenting(养育子女) where schools expect them to act as partners in their children's education. Previous generations concentrated on getting children to school on time, fed, dressed and ready to learn.
Kaith Robinson, the author of the study, said, "I really don't know if the public is ready for this but there are some ways parents can be involved in their kids' education that leads to declines in their academic performance. One of the things that were consistently negative was parents' help with homework." Robinson suggested that may be because parents themselves struggle to understand the task." They may either not remember the material their kids are studying now, or in some cases never learnt it themselves, but they're still offering advice."
Robinson assessed parental involvement performance and found one of the most damaging things a parent could do was to punish their children for poor marks. In general, about 20% of parental involvement was positive, about 45% negative and the rest statistically insignificant.
Common sense suggests it was a good thing for parents to get involved because "children with good academic success do have involved parents", admitted Robinson. But he argued that this did not prove parental involvement was the root cause of that success." A big surprise was that Asian-American parents whose kids are doing so well in school hardly involved. They took a more reasonable approach, conveying to their children how success at school could improve their lives."
1.The underlined expression "parental involvement " in Paragraph 1 probably means ________.
A. parents' expectation on children's health
B. parents' participation in children's education
C. parents' control over children's life
D. parents' plan for children's future
2.What is the major finding of Robinson's study?
A. Modern parents raise children in a more scientific way.
B. Punishing kids for bad marks is mentally damaging.
C. Parental involvement is not so beneficial as expected.
D. Parents are not able to help with children’s homework.
3.The example of Asian-American parents implies that parents should ___________.
A. help children realize the importance of schooling
B. set a specific life goal for their children
C. spend more time improving their own lives
D. take a more active part in school management
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1.What do all four of the hotels have in common?
A. They all have a three-star ratings.
B. They all have the same number of rooms
C. They are all close to the airport
D. They all provide a room with a mini bar.
2.Which hotel offers facilities for children’s activities?
A. Clarion Hotel＆Suites Downtown Montreal
B. Aava Whistler Hotel
C. Best Western Cairn Croft Hotel
D. Delta Bow Valley Hotel
3.If you want to check in to a hotel at three o’clock in the morning you can stay at ______.
A. Aava Whistler Hotel
B. Best Western Cairn Croft Hotel
C. Clarion Hotel＆Suites Downtown Montreal
D. Delta Bow Valley Hotel
4.Which of the following do all rooms in Clarion Hotel and Suites Downtown Montreal have?
A. They all come with a mini bar and in-house movie as well as laundry
B. They all come with basic amenities, including cable TV and a kitchenette
C. They all come with the basic amenities, including a swimming pool
D. They all come with skiing facilities, fitness room and sauna
假如你叫李平，你的美国笔友Tom来信询问你十一假期将怎样过。请根据表格中的信息给他回信，说明你在十一假期中的活动和理由。
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休息 | 学习紧张，缺少锻炼和休息 |
看望乡下的祖父母 | 帮助他们做点家务，并给他们谈了身边的新鲜事 |
和朋友进行短途旅游 | 欣赏大自然，呼吸新鲜空气 |
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Dear Li Mei,
With the mid-term exam come，you must get prepared for them. I think that you need is a right study method. As we all know，there are three stage in study—preview，study in class and review，among them review is the most important. You should first make a review plan，and then stick to it.
I follow my review plan strictly and had made progress in my study. It turns out to be well enough. Of course，there are more than one way to review. So long as you review regular，I'm sure you can find more ways to study well.
If you have any question of subjects，you may ask me and I'm glad to help them. We may meet in our school library every Friday afternoon.
Best regards.
Yours，
Li Hua
Tim Cook，the CEO of Apple，showed off their newest device，the Apple Watch．Mr．Cook said it was the most personal device Apple 1. (create)．
The Apple Watch is a very small computer a person wears on his or her wrist．It can do many of the same things 2. an iPhone．The apps are customized(定制) for the watch．It is different than just seeing 3. is on your phone．
Like a phone，you will be able to receive 4. (call)on your wrist．Mr.Cook smiled while 5. (describe) this. “I've been wanting to do this since I was five years old，”he said. “The day is 6. (final) here．”
The watches arrived in stores 7. late April．They are sold at different prices，beginning at ＄349．Mr．Cook said the high-end model，the one 8. (make) of 18-karat gold，is thousands of dollars.
One problem with Apple Watch is that you need an iPhone on your body，or nearby，9. (get) this watch to function fully．Like a phone，it also needs to be charged each night. It remains to be seen whether people really want to carry both a smart phone 10. a smart watch.
My father grew up in Oklahoma during the early years of the Great Depression. He was the only living child of a hard-working farmer and a ________ mother. When Dad completed eighth grade, my grandfather believed his only son would work on the farm. My grandmother, ________, understood the door that education could open even in ________ economic times. She persuaded grandfather to ________ Dad to finish high school.
Dad worked hard and completed high school at the age of 16. At last, grandpa was to have his wish. Dad would work on the farm, easing the economic and physical ________ grandpa carried. But grandmother again ________ grandpa to permit my father to go to college.
After ________, grandpa made the most difficult decision of his lifetime. He walked to the chicken coop(鸡笼子), where he did his ________. Taking a shovel in his work-worn hands, grandpa ________ a jar that held all the family’s savings. He offered the jar and its precious ________ to Dad, saying, "Here boy, go make something of yourself."
Realizing that his family was ________ all their savings by investing in his education, Dad became a steward of those funds. He ________ his bachelor’s degree and then went on to the University of Oklahoma, where he graduated second in his ________ school class in 1936. Jobs were hard to ________ when Dad graduated, so he opened his own practice and lived in a home with a dirt floor. He worked long hours, but I remember him ________ the great books he discovered in the course of his education with me.
Our family was changed by the long walk grandpa took to the chicken coop. Education is ________ an investment in our family. It is a treasure. I ________ my father to college and law school, and all of my children have also ________ higher education. We have been transformed by a sacrifice made two ________ ago by a loving, if not fully convinced, grandfather and a persistent grandmother and that has made all the ________.
1.A. beautifulB. curiousC. capableD. devoted
2.A. soB. howeverC. otherwiseD. thus
3.A. toughB. greatC. peacefulD. competitive
4.A. permitB. takeC. askD. force
5.A. painsB. troublesC. burdensD. activities
6.A. refusedB. beggedC. orderedD. required
7.A. graduationB. workC. reflectionD. permission
8.A. cookingB. cleaningC. farmingD. banking
9.A. picked upB. dug upC. broke upD. cut up
10.A. booksB. contentsC. billsD. coins
11.A. sacrificingB. storingC. treasuringD. wasting
12.A. failedB. receivedC. offeredD. needed
13.A. mathsB. educationC. economicsD. law
14.A. come offB. come aboutC. come byD. come on
15.A. makingB. writingC. protectingD. sharing
16.A. more thanB. rather thanC. other thanD. less than
17.A. joinedB. followedC. advisedD. accompanied
18.A. soughtB. insistedC. favoredD. considered
19.A. yearsB. centuriesC. decadesD. generations
20.A. senseB. differenceC. useD. effect
