题目内容
Once while being prepared for a television interview, I was chatting with the host about stay-at-home fathers. I made the point that one reason why we’re seeing more stay-at-home dads may be that many families now take earning power into account when deciding which parent will stay home.
At that point, one of the male crew members commented, “It should be the better parent who stays home. ” A lot of guys say things like that. I was a stay-at-home father for eight years, so his declaration made me exited. It implied that our family’s choice could only have been correct if I was a “batter” parent than my wife.
I suppose an argument could have been made that when I began staying home my wife was the “better” parent: She spent more time with Ray, could read him better and calm him more quickly. And given a choice, he’d have picked her over me. But as she was the more employable one, my wife went out to work and I looked after our son.
Because of the increased time I spent with him, I soon knew Ray well, and could look after him more or less as well as my wife. Actually, the experience helped me unlock one of the world’s great secrets: Women are good at looking after children because they do it. It’s not because of any innate（先天的）female gift or a mother’s instinct. It’s because they put in the time and attention required to become good at the job.
Women obviously get a biological head start from giving birth and nursing，but over the long term experience is more important. When I got the experience myself, I was good，too. As good? I don’t know . Who cares?
1．Which of the following does the first paragraph imply?
A．Actually more men like staying at home.
B．The author has found a job at a TV station.
C．The wife earns more in more and more families.
D．The husband proves to be the better parent
2．Why did the author decide to stay at home to look after their son eight years ago?
A．Because he thought he was the better parent.
B．Because their son Ray liked him better.
C．Because he found himself better at looking after baby.
D．Because he was less likely to find a job than his wife.
3．Which of the following is NOT mentioned or implied in the passage?
A．Good parents should spend sufficient time with their children.
B．Good parents should take turns to take care of their children.
C．Good parents should try to understand their children well.
D．Good parents should help each other to support the family.
4．It is often believed women are good at taking care of children because .
A．they devote much time and attention to them
B．they learned to do it when they were young
C．they were born with this ability
D．they have a gift to understand babies well
5．What does the author conclude finally?
A．It is difficult for a baby to make a choice between Dad and Mum.
B．It is hard for a man to take care of his baby but easy for his wife.
C．A man can take good care of children if he gets the experience.
D．A man cannot do as well as his wife no matter how hard he works.
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A philosophy professor loved to teach students about important theories of the subject．Once, while his 21 was about to begin, he just closed the book and 22 stood before his class with some items on the table in front of him． Students were curious but the professor without looking at them 23 a very large and empty jar．And then he started to 24 it with small rocks．25 the jar appeared full, the professor asked his students whether the jar was full
The entire class 26 that jar was indeed full．Next, the professor picked up some 27 and began pouring them into the jar．The moment pouring was 28 , he shook the jar lightly．As a result of that, all the small rocks 29 the open areas between the rocks comfortably．
Professor again asked the students if the jar is full．Same 30 from the class like before．Professor 31 a bit but silently, and this time he picked up a box of sand．He poured the box into the jar and sand filled the entire 32 spaces．At the same time, professor 33 his question to the class, if the jar was full? Yes again．
Professor now 34 towards the class and said, this jar 35 your life．All the things in the jar I poured mean some important lessons．The rocks are the most important things, 36 is family, your partner, health and your 37 ．Even if everything else in your life goes away but the rocks remains there, your life would still be full 38 the most important things are still present in your life．Pebbles represent other significant things like car, house and job etc．And the sand is the small stuff or everything else．
If your time and 39 is spent on small stuff then there is no 40 for the pebbles or the rocks or in other words, most important things of your life．
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Einstein was the greatest scientist of his age. But he was almost as strange as his Theory of Relativity.
Once, while riding a street car in Berlin, he told the conductor that he had been given too much change. The conductor counted the change again and found it to be correct, so he handed it back to Einstein, saying “The trouble with you is you don’t know your figures.”
He had nothing and thought little of the things most people set their hearts on— fame and money. He didn’t want money or praise. He made his own happiness out of such simple things as his work and playing the violin and sailing his boat. Einstein’s violin brought him more joy than anything else in life.
He led a very simple sort of life, went around in old clothes that needed pressing, seldom wore a hat, He shaved （刮胡子）with the same soap that he used for his bath. The man who was trying to solve the most difficult problems of the universe said that using two kinds of soap made his life completely too complicated（复杂的）.
【小题1】From the second paragraph we know Einstein _____.
| A．wasn’t good at maths |
| B．enjoyed playing jokes |
| C．had some trouble with figures |
| D．didn’t care about money at all |
| A．sailing his boat | B．fame and money |
| C．playing the violin | D．work |
| A．preferred to live a simple life |
| B．was a man of humor |
| C．was too poor to buy more soaps |
| D．liked to do something different |