Teach your child about safety.

When you teach safety rules to your little child, it will help if you provide clear reasons for the rules. Try to help your four-year-old child understand that these rules are not used to spoil his fun, but to keep him safe. The fairer your rules seem to your child, the more likely he is to follow them.

Try to avoid scaring them. The reason why you don’t want your child to climb up onto the top of the tree is not “You’ll fall off the tree and break your neck and die”. but “If you do fall off the tree, you’ll get hurt.” If you exaggerate possible dangers, your child will not believe that your rule is serious.

When your child doesn’t follow your safety rules, you need to make him see that unsafe behavior is dangerous. If your child runs out into the street, you should immediately pull him back, repeat your rules, explain your rules and warm him not to do it again.

If your child then repeats the unsafe behavior, you should let him know the connection between his action and the results. In the example above, you might make him come back right away. “I told you that you can’t run in the street. It’s not safe. If you can’t play outside safely, you can’t play outside.”

If your safety rules seem fair to your child, he will probably be ready to follow them and even accept them as his own rules. And they will gradually become his safety habits and part of his developing consciousness.

1.What does the underlined word “spoil” mean?

A.Treat. B.Stop. C.Connect. D.Refuse.

2.What should we say to a child if he climbs up onto the top of the tree?

A.You may die. B.You can’t play outside.

C.You may break your neck. D.You may fall off the tree and get hurt.

3.According to the passage, what should safety rules be?

A.Reasonable B.Safe C.Smart D.Helpful

4.Which of the following is TRUE?

A.Parents should set a good example.

B.Children are more likely to get hurt.

C.Parents shouldn’t exaggerate possible dangers.

D.Children are not allowed to play outside alone.

5.Who is this passage written for?

A.Writers. B.Children. C.Teachers. D.Parents.

The small red house on D Street was old enough. It had a blue roof. But Corita liked it. She was born in that house. Corita was seven and a half years old. One day her mother hugged her tight and said, “I have something to tell you. We have to move to another house.”

Corita cried a little, but she got over it. She put all her toys into a box. Not her dolls, though. She held on to the dolls. The movers (搬家工人) came. They took the furniture and clothes. They took Corita’s box of toys. “We’ll meet you at the other house,” they said.

Corita and her mother got on a bus. Corita held her dolls on her lap. The bus ride was long. After the bus ride, Corita and her mother walked two blocks. They came to a yellow house. It was old and little. The movers were there.

They all went into the house. Corita’s mother showed the movers where to put things. She showed them the room for Corita’s toys.

“Will this room be mine?”

“Yes,” said her mother.

“What makes it so nice and bright?”

“Look up. Look toward the roof.”

Corita looked up, “There is a window in the ceiling!”

Her mother smiled, “That’s called a skylight. See the blue sky?”

Corita put her dolls on the bed. Then she took her toys out of the box. “I like this house,” she told her mother. “This house is so nice.”

“Were you afraid it wouldn’t be nice?”

Corita laughed, “Well, my dolls were. But of course, they didn’t know the skylight!”

Life is like a skylight. Only if we find the light things in our life, we will be always happy.

1.Which sentence about the house on D street is right?

A.It is blue with a red roof.

B.Corita had lived in it for more than seven years.

C.Corita couldn’t wait to leave the house.

D.It was old but modern.

2.When her mother told Corita they would move house, Corita felt _________.

A.surprised B.excited C.sad D.happy

3.The movers took all the following things in Corita’s house except _________.

A.furniture B.clothes C.toys D.dolls

4.From the passage, we know Corita’s mother was _________.

A.polite B.wise C.selfish D.careful

5.Which is the best title for this article?

A.Moving house is a good choice. B.Learn to accept a new life.

C.A girl and her old house. D.Moving houses causes problems.

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