Passage 1
Teachers always plan down to the minute what their students will be doing. This is good for kids, becau it teaches them to stay on task and follow a schedule. But most homes aren’t run this way. If parents do plan their children’s lives minute by minute, what happens when that child grows up and goes to college? At some point, kids need to learn to manage their own time. This can be one of the valuable skills you help your kids develop outside of school. But it generally won’t happen all by itlf, becau there’s a big transition that happens when kids leave the structured school environment and come home.
纽带 If you have kid stay alone at home, think hard about trying to find an adult who can be there and provide the support your child needs. If a supportive adult isn’t available, an expert named Martin recommends you find an after-school program led by experienced professionals who will engage them in creative activities, nourish them with healthy snacks, and assist them with their schoolwork. If you are at home on the contrary, to take some break after the guys get started on diversions, becau it’s hard to stop and do something li
ke homework. “If that little bit of downtime is television, good luck ... getting them to do their homework.” says a professor of child development at California State University, “TV is addictive.” A better way to help your child unwind is with a healthy snack. “Wait until dinner, make a plate full of energizing food. You could even dish up part of the dinner you’re preparing a little early for the kids,” she says.
档案分类的八大类 While you’re sharing a snack, you can make a list of what your kids will get to do during their study breaks. The types of breaks recommended include shooting baskets, getting a drink, using the bathroom, or even playing a quick card game with parents. Your kids can be the ones to decide which breaks they’d like to take. But, as Freimuth says, your children will have to be honest about what kind of break will energize them and not upt their momentum.
1. The main purpo of this passage is _A___.
来临之际A) to provide some advice for the parents about children’s education
B) to explain how to prepare a pretty snack for your children
C) to explain why the parents spoil their children
D) to describe children’s lives after school
2. The words “this way” in the ntence “But most homes aren’t run this way” in the first paragraph most possibly means _港口市场B___.
A) to stay on the task
B) to arrange everything in details
C) to give some lessons to children
D) to behave in the structured school
3. According to the passage, the expert named Martin, appearing in the cond paragraph, most probably takes up the following jobs EXCEPT __C__.
A) a specialist in children education
B) a professional consultant in a after-school program
C) the leader of a rearch group about sports, such as basketball
D) mostly the same as what Freimuth (in the last paragraph) does
4. According to the last two paragraphs, the appropriate snacks that the parents provide will __D__.
A) upt the children’s momentum
B) exhaust them by lots of dirty dishes
C) make the children get addicted to TV
D) bring more energy to children
5. Which of the following is NOT recommended for the break during the children’s study after class? C
A) Shoot baskets.
无线速率B) Play some games with parents.
C) Go out to drink some beverage in a bar for a long time.
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D) Relax a bit by using the bathroom.
Passage 2
This is the weather Scobie loves. Lying in bed he touches his telescope lovingly, turning a wistful eye on the blank wall of rotting mud的是-bricks which shuts off his view of the a.
Scobie is getting on for venty and still afraid to die; his one fear is that he will awake one morning and find himlf dead-Lieutenant Commander Scobie, O.B.E. Conquently it gives him a vere shock every morning when the water-carriers shriek under his window before dawn, waking him up. For a moment, he says, he dares not open his eyes. Keeping them fast shut (for fear they might open on the heavenly host) he gropes a
long the cake-stand beside his bed and grabs his pipe. It is always loaded from the night before and an open matchbox stands beside it. The first whiff of tobacco restores both his composure and his eyesight. He breathes deeply, grateful for reassurance. He smiles. He gloats. Then, drawing the heavy sheepskin which rves him as a bed-cover up to his ears, he sings a little triumphal song to the morning.
Taking stock of himlf he discovers that he has the inevitable headache. His tongue is raw from last night's brandy. But against the trifling discomforts the prospect of another day in life weighs heavily. He paus to slip in his fal teeth. He places his wrinkled fingers to his chest and is comforted by the sound of his heart at work. He is rather proud of his heart. If you ever visit him when he is in bed he is almost sure to grasp your hand in his and ask you to feel it. Swallowing a little, you shove your hand inside his cheap night-jacket to experience tho sad, blunt, far-away humps-like tho of an unborn baby. He buttons up his pajamas with touching pride and give his imitation roar of animal health-"Bounding from my bed like a lion"-that is another of his phras. You have not experienced the full charm of the man unless you have actually en him, bent double wit
h rheumatism, crawling out from between his coar cotton sheets like a ruin. Only in the warmest months of the year do his bones thaw out sufficiently to enable him to stand erect. In the summer afternoons he walks in the park, his little head glowing like a minor sun, his jaw t in a violent expression of health.中英文自我介绍
