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Few people would defend the Victorian attitude on children, but if you were a parent in those days, at least you knew where you stood: children were to be seen and not heard. Freud and his colleagues did away with all that and parents have been puzzled ever since. The child’s happiness is all- important, they say, but what about the parents’ happiness? Modern child-rearing manuals(抚养孩子手册)would never permit cruelty to children .The trouble is you are not allowed even to shout. Who knows what deep psychological(心理的)wounds you might cause? The poor child may never recover from the dreadful experience. So it is the parents that bend over backwards to avoid giving their children complex which a hundred years ago hadn’t even been heard of. Certainly, a child needs love, and a lot of it. But the excessive permissive(纵容) of modern parents is surely doing more harm than good.

     Psychologists(心理学家) have succeeded in weakening parents confidence in their own authority. And it hasn’t taken children long to get wind of the fact. In addition to the great modern classics on child care, there are countless articles in magazines and newspapers. With so much advice flying about, mum and dad just don’t know what to do any more. In the end, they do nothing at all. So, from early childhood, the kids are in charge and parents’ lives are regulated according to the needs of their kids. When the little dears develop into teenagers, they take complete control. Lack of authority over the years makes teenagers rebellion against parents all the more violent. If the young people are going to have a party, for example, parents are asked to leave the house. Their presence merely spoils the fun. What else can the poor parents do but obey?

The author says that today’s parents _______.

       A. are bombarded with excessive amounts of child-care literature.

       B. draw a distinction between permissiveness and carelessness.

       C. are only towards children from happy home backgrounds.

       D. weigh their children’s knowledge rather than intelligence.

The phrase “get wind of” (Para.2) most likely means _______ .

A. become used to                  B. try to avoid

C. realize                            D. become puzzled of

Which of the following can be inferred from this passage?

A. Victorian child rearing is a model for parents to follow.

B. Psychologists have much to answer for today’s problems on child care.

C. With the help of so much advice, raising children is easier than ever.

D. Parents like to enjoy the freedom when there is a party in the house.

What’s the main idea of this passage?

A. The excessive permissiveness of today’s parents is harmful to children.

B. Psychologists shouldn’t interfere so much with child care.

C. Parents should hold the Victorian attitudes towards children.

D. Children are too sensitive to be hurt.

【小题1】A

【小题2】C

【小题3】B

【小题4】A


解析:

本文主要讲了对孩子过度的放纵所造成的原因以及分析对孩子放纵的结果。首先讲述了父母对孩子的态度发生了变化,且作者提出父母对孩子过于纵容肯定是有害无益的。文中讲述了在心理学家、报刊杂志的建议下,父母被弄得无所适从。被纵容、忽略下的青少年走向犯罪,最后作者呼吁父母应严格管教自己的孩子。

【小题1】 细节理解题。“面对过量的抚养孩子的书”,第一段中的“child-rearing manuals”和第二段中的“countless articles in magazines and newspapers.”说明了这一观点。B和原文的意思相反;CD未 提到。本题易误选B。

【小题2】 词义推断题。文章第二段第一、二句句意为“心理学家削弱了父母的权威,孩子们很快就认识(get wind of)到了这一点”,故知其为“realize”之意。本题易误选A。

【小题3】 推理判断题。见文章第二段第一句,意思为:“心理学家们成功地削弱了父母们对自己权威的信心”,故可推知,心理学家应在很大程度上为现在父母们纵容孩子负责任。

【小题4】 主旨大意题。文章第一段最后一句是本文主题句。其意思为:“尽管孩子们很需要爱,但现在父母们对孩子的过度纵容给孩子带来的是坏处而不是益处”,故A项符合要求。

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The most frightening words in the English language are, “Our computer is down.” You hear it more and more when you are on business. The other day I was at the airport waiting for a ticket to Washington and the girl in the ticket office said, “I’m sorry, I can’t sell you a ticket. Our computer is down.”

“If your computer is down, just write me out a ticket.”

“I can’t write you out a ticket. The computer is the only one allowed to do so.”

I looked down on the computer and every passenger was just standing there drinking coffee and staring at the black screen. Then I asked her, “What do all you people do?”

“We give the computer the information about your trip, and then it tells us whether you can fly with us or not.”

So when it goes down, you go down with it.”

“That’s good, sir.”

“How long will the computer be down?” I wanted to know.

“I have no idea. Sometimes it’s down for 10 minutes, sometimes for two hours. There’s no way we can find out without asking the computer, and since it’s down it won’t answer us.”

After the girl told me they had no backup(备用) computer, I said. “Let’s forget the computer. What about your planes? They’re still flying, aren’t they?”

“I couldn’t tell without asking the computer.”

“Maybe I could just go to the gate and ask the pilot if he’s flying to Washington, ” I suggested.

“I wouldn’t know what gate to send you to. Even if the pilot was going to Washington, he couldn’t take you if you didn’t have a ticket.”

“Is there any other airline flying to Washington within the next few hours?”

“I wouldn’t know, ” she said, pointing at the dark screen. “Only ‘IT’ knows. ‘It’ can’t tell me.”

By this time there were quite a few people standing in lines. The word soon spread to other travelers that the computer was down. Some people went white, some people started to cry and still others kicked their luggage.

1.The best title for the article is _______.

A.When the Computer Is Down

B.The Most Frightening Words

C.The Computer of the Airport

D.Asking the Computer

2.What could the girl in the ticket office do for the passengers without asking the computer?

A.She could sell a ticket.

B.She could write out a ticket.

C.She could answer the passengers’ questions.

D.She could do nothing.

3.Why do you think they had not a backup computer?

A.Because it was easy down

B.Because it was very expensive.

C.Because it was not advanced enough.

D.Because it was not as big as the main computer.

4.The last paragraph suggests that _______.

A.a modern computer won’t be down.

B.computers can take the place of humans

C.sometimes a computer may bring suffering to people

D.there will be great changes in computers

 

If you are planning on traveling, there are few simple rules about how to make life easier both before and after your journey.

First of all, always check and double-check departure (出发) time. It is surprising how few people really do this carefully. Once I arrived at he airport a few minutes after ten. My secretary had got the ticket for me and I thought she had said that the plane left at 10:50. When I arrived at the airport, the person at the departure desk told me that my flight was closed. Therefore, I had to wait three hours for the next one and missed an important meeting.

The second rule is to remember that even in this age of credit cards (信用卡), it is still important to have some local money in cash (现金). Once I arrived at a place at midnight and the bank at the airport was closed. The only way to get to my hotel was by taxi but because I had no dollars, I offered to pay in pounds instead. “Listen! I only take real money!” the driver said angrily. You can imagine how terrible I felt at that moment.

The third and the last rule is to find out as much as you can about the weather at your destination(目的地) before you leave. I feel sorry for some of my workmates who travel in heavy suits and raincoats in May, when it is still fairly cool in London or Manchester, to places like Athens, Rome of Madrid, where it is already beginning to get quite warm during the day.

1.Where is the writer most probably from?

A.Britain

B.The USA

C.Italy

D.Greece

2.When the writer found he had no dollars to pay the taxi driver, he      .

A.asked the driver to give him a free ride

B.offered to pay in pounds

C.gave the driver some fake(假) money

D.tried to pay by credit card

3.Generally, in May the weather in London is     .

A.warm and dry

B.cold and dry

C.hot and wet

D.cool and rainy

4.The writer mainly tells us      .

A.how to make life easier

B.how to be well prepared for a trip

C.how to enjoy ourselves on trip

D.how to schedule our trip

 

根据短文内容,从短文后的选项中选出空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项是多余选项。

All over the world people enjoy sports. Sports help to keep people healthy and happy, and to live longer.

 1 They buy tickets or turn on their TVs to watch the games. Often they get very excited when their player or team wins.

 2 Football, for example, has spread around the world. Swimming is popular in all countries near the sea or in those with many rivers. What fun it is to jump into a pool or lake, whether in China, Egypt or Italy!    3 Think how many lovers to skate or ski in Japan, Norway or Canada.

Some sports or game go back thousands of years, like running or jumping. Chinese wushu, for example, has a very long history. But basketball and volleyball are rather new. Neither one is a hundred years old yet.   4  Water-skiing is one of the newest in the family of sports.

People from different countries may not be able to understand each other, but after a game together they often become good friends.  5  One learns to fight hard but fight fair, to win without pride and to lose with grace.

A.And think of people in cold countries.

B.Sports help to train a person’s character.

C.Not a few people participate in different sports competitions themselves.

D.Many people like to watch others play games.

E. People aren’t inventing new sports or games.

F. Some sports are so interesting that people everywhere take part in them.

G. People are inventing new sports or games all the time.

 

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Recent studies show that only one out of three people have strong and healthy self-confidence . That ____26 two out of every three people simply don’t know the ____27 they already have to be successful when it’s _____28 there in their hands!___29 if you want others to believe in yourself first. Rememer: “ No one can ask you feel inferior unless you _____30them.” A successful businessman says, “you can’t push anyone up a ladder____31 he knows he can climb himself.”

Many of us have an image____32 , the  image we have of ourselves. ___33one guy put it: “You can’t win horse race if you think you look_____34 on a horse.” To succeed, the first person you have to ____35 is yourself! So stop believing your own lies about yourself. Just ____36 your mind and you will change your life.

One of the most harmful weapons that can kill you success in life are the two little words: “____37”You know that people used to ____38 that if human being s traveled faster than 30 miles an hour it would ____39 our circulation of blood and kill us?Thank  goodness a few people didn’t believe that ___40 thinking, or we wouldn’t be riding in cars , buses, and flying in airplanes today. You’ll never know until you____41.

Roger Bannister was the first human being to run a mile in less than 4 minutes. But _____42 he did it, most people in the would didn’t think it was even _____43. Yet only weeks after Bannister did it , suddenly _____44 all over the world began running a mile in less  than 4 minutes! If we believe something can be done, we’ll _____45 do it.

26 .A. means     B. reflects   C. reads      D. explains

27. A. chance     B. strength  C. ability     D. reason 

28. A. immediately B.properly   C. accurately D. right

29. A. Because   B. But      C. What     D. While

30. A.let        B. challenge  C. admit    D. make

31. A. if        B. except     C. until     D. unless

32. A.quiz      B.question    C. problem D. mystery

33. A. When    B. As        C. While   D. Since

34. A. curious   B. good –looking C.serious  D.funny

35. A. beat      B. knock      C. strike    D. defend

36. A. settle     B. bend       C. change   D. fix

37. A. I failed.   B. Not me.     C. Can I?  D. I can’t

38. A. imagine   B. think       C. suspect   D. doubt

39. A. start      B. help        C. stop     D. quit

40. A. silly      B. empty      C. reasonable D.terrible

41. A. judge     B. realize      C. understand D.try

42. A. after      B. before      C. since    D. because

43. A. likely     B.unbelievable  C. possible D. impossible

44. A.workers    B. runners     C. competitors D.players

45. A. simply    B. seldom     C. always  D. usually                

 

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