A.True False
B.False True
C.True True
D.False False
第1题
A、True False
B、False True
C、True True
D、False False
第2题
W: I know there was a problem with the computer system. It should be straightened out by next week.
Q: What does the woman mean?
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A.The man is mistaken.
B.The error will be corrected.
C.She didn't know about the problem.
D.Grades were sent late.
第3题
Would you let your fourth-grader ride public transportation without an adult? Probably not. Still, when Lenore Skenazy, a columnist for the New York Sun, wrote about letting her son take the subway alone to get back to her Manhattan home from a department store on the Upper East Side, she didn't expect to get hit with a wave of criticism from readers.
"Long story short: My son got home, overjoyed with independence," Skenazy wrote on April 4 in the New York Sun. "Long story longer: Half the people I've told this episode to now want to turn me in for child abuse. As if keeping kids under lock and key and cell phone and careful watch is the right way to rear kids. It's not. It's debilitating (使虚弱)—for us and for them."
Online message boards were soon full of people both applauding and condemning Skenazy's decision to let her son go it alone. She wound up defending herself on CNN (accompanied by her son) and on popular blogs like the Huffington Post, where her follow-up piece was ironically headlined "More From America's Worst Mom."
The episode has ignited another one of those debates that divides parents into vocal opposing camps. Are modern parents needlessly overprotective, or is the world a more complicated and dangerous place than it was when previous generations were allowed to wander about unsupervised? From the "she's an irresponsible mother" camp came: "Shame on you for being so careless about his safety," in comments on the Huffington Post. And there was this from a mother of four: "How would you have felt if he didn't come home?" But Skenazy got a lot of support, too, with women and men writing in with stories about how they were allowed to take trips all by themselves at seven or eight. She also got heaps of praise for bucking the "helicopter parent" trend: "Good for this Mom," one commenter wrote on the Huffington Post. "This is a much-needed reality check."
Last week, encouraged by all the attention, Skenazy started her own blog—Free Range Kids—promoting the idea that modern children need some of the same independence that her generation had. In the good old days nine-year-old baby boomers rode their bikes to school, walked to the store, took buses—and even subways—all by themselves. Her blog, she says, is dedicated to sensible parenting. "At Free Range Kids, we believe in safe kids. We believe in car seats and safety belts. We do NOT believe that every time school-age children go outside, they need a security guard. "
So why are some parents so nervous about letting their children out of their sight? Are cities and towns less safe and kids more vulnerable to crimes like child kidnap and sexual abuse than they were in previous generations?
Not exactly. New York City, for instance, is safer than it's ever been; it's ranked 136th in crime among all American cities. Nationwide, stranger kidnaps are extremely rare; there's a one-in-a-million chance a child will be taken by a stranger, according to the Justice Department. And 90 percent of sexual abuse cases are committed by someone the child knows. Mortality rates from all causes, including disease and accidents, for American children are lower now than they were 25 years' ago. According to Child Trends, a nonprofit research group, between 1980 and 2003 death rates dropped by 44 percent for children aged 5 to 14 and 32 percent for teens aged 15 to 19.
Then there's the whole question of whether modern parents are more watchful and nervous about safety than previous generations. Yes, some are. Part of the problem is that with wall-to-wall Internet and cable news, every missing child case gets so much airtime that it's not surprising even normal parental anxiety can be amplified. And many middle-class parents have gotten used to managing their children's time and shuttling them to various enriching activities, so the ide
A.was afraid that he might get lost
B.enjoyed having the independence
C.was only too pleased to take the risk
D.thought he was an exceptional child
第4题
With just a few minutes left before school was to start, my six-year-old, Dustin, was unhappy. "I don't want to go", he said; Ever since he'd entered first grade, he hated school. What's going on? I thought as he trudged(沉重吃力地走) out the door. If he hates school this much now, how bad will it be later on?
Every kid occasionally grumbles about school. But five to ten percent of kids dislike it so much that they don't want to attend, says Christopher Kearney, director of the Child School Refusal and Anxiety Disorders Clinic at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.
If a child seems depressed or anxious about school, fakes illness to stay home, repeatedly winds up in the nurse's or principal's office, or refuses to talk about large chunks of the school day, you should be concerned, say school psychologists Michael Martin and Cynthia Waltman-Greenwood, co-editors of Salve Your Child's School-Related Problems.
Fortunately, you can usually solve the problem—sometimes very easily. In our case, my husband and I visited Dustin's class and noticed that the teacher, fresh out of college, called only on kids who scrambled to sit right under her nose. Dustin, who generally sat near the back, was ignored. We simply told him to move up front. He did, and his enthusiasm returned.
Here are some of the most common reasons that kids hate school—and strategies to put them back:
Anxiety
One fear that keeps children from enjoying school is separation anxiety. It most frequently occurs during times of family stress or when a child is about to enter a new school.
Unfortunately, parents can feed a child's anxieties by the way they respond. With younger kids watch how you say good-bye those first few days of school. A firm "Have a great day, and I'll pick you up at 2:30!" is more confidence-inspiring than "Don't worry, I can be there in ten minutes if you need me."
Thomas Ollendick, head of an anxiety-disorders clinic for children and adolescents at Virginia Polytechnic Institute, treated one boy who was anxious about entering middle school. He worried about everything from getting lust in the new school to getting beaten up. His mother took time off from work so she could stay home to "be there" for him "unconsciously sending the message that something dreadful might indeed happen", Ollendick recalls.
Once the mother realized she was contributing in the problem, she began fostering her son's independence by taking him to the school so he could learn his way around and meet his homeroom teacher. His fears diminished, and now he's a well-adjusted student.
You can help your child handle fearful situations—from speaking up in class to taking tests—by rehearsing at home. Help make large projects less daunting(使用畏缩的) by breaking them into manageable pieces. Teach your child to replace thoughts such as "I'm going to fail." With "I can handle this."
Loneliness
Some kids dislike school because they have no friends. This may be the case if your child is always Mane, or gives away treasured possessions in an attempt to be liked.
Often loneliness problems can be solved by social skills. "A child may need to learn how to look others in the eye when he speaks, or how to talk above a whisper—or below a yell," Ollendick says. You might teach a young child a few "friendship openers," such as "My name's Tom. What's yours? Do you want to play tag?"
"A lot of kids who are very lonely have never been told anything good about themselves," says Miami teacher Matty Rodriguez-Walling. "If a lonely kid is skilled in some area—computers, for example—I'll often have other students work with him. That does a lot for self-esteem and helps the lonely child make friends."
Bullies
Students sometimes hate school because they are afraid to atten
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B.N
C.NG
第5题
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A.There will be a test on Tuesday.
B.There will be a quiz on Tuesday.
C.The class will read the story on Thursday.
D.The class will write a composition.
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