Question

【题目】D

In recent years, our parenting culture began to send the message that competence（能力） was important for building self-confidence. However, that same parenting culture made a big mistake by telling parents they should tell their children how competent they were. Children can't be convinced that they are competent. Only your children can build their sense of competence.

However, you can do several things to encourage them to develop their own competence. First, you can give them opportunities to gain a sense of competence. You should allow your children to “get their hands dirty” in the daily life and find out what they are capable of.

These daily experiences allow your children to develop specific competencies that will be helpful to them as they grow up. Also, the more individual competencies children develop, the more they will view themselves as globally competent people.

Second, you can be sure that they gain the most value from their experiences. You can direct their focus to the competences that enabled those successes rather than some generic（笼统的） praise of the accomplishment itself. And you can also praise their accomplishments.

A great difficulty for parents is allowing their children to be wrong or do something poorly in the mistaken belief that these experiences will hurt their sense of competence. In fact, whether they do it well isn't important because success isn't really the goal. Instead, the goal is their willingness to keep trying.

Another mistake that parents make is that, after being unsuccessful when their children first try something, they try to correct them so they will succeed the next time they try. That's not to say that you can't lend a hand when they are struggling. But let them take the lead; if they really want your help, they'll ask for it.

【1】The passage is mainly about_____.

A. the arts to praise children

B. the ways to help children develop ability

C. the ways to evaluate children’s ability

D. the proper ways to help children deal with failure

【2】What should parents say to help children gain value from their experiences?

A. Well done!

B.You are the best!

C. You are really careful!

D. You’d better do as I do.

【3】Parents often make a mistake by ______.

A. getting their children’s hands dirty

B. not realizing the harmful effect of failure

C. putting themselves into children’s shoes

D. telling their children how competent they are

【4】How did the writer develop the passage?

A. By asking and answering questions.

B. By introducing different opinions.

C. By listing examples.

D. By giving explanations.

【5】In which section of a newspaper can you find this passage?

A. Education B. Health and Fitness

C. Home and Garden D. Careers

Answer 1

【答案】

【1】B

【2】C

【3】D

【4】D

【5】A

【解析】能力对树立自尊很重要，父母应该尽其所能使他们的孩子相信他们是多么有能力。但是在如何让孩子意识到他们是有能力的时候，父母经常会犯一些错误。在本文中作者对此进行了分析并指出了正确的做法。

【1】B主旨大意题。文章开头提出在教养孩子方面人们容易犯的错误，然后在第二段提出you can do several things to encourage them to develop their own competence，接下来详细介绍了培养孩子能力的方法，故选B。

【2】C推理判断题。根据文章第四段内容可知作者建议人们要引导孩子关注那些能使他们成功的能力，而不是仅仅笼统地对他们的成就进行评价，故答案选C。

【3】D细节理解题。从文章首段that same parenting culture made a big mistake by telling parents they should tell their children how competent they were.可以判断作者认为家长告诉孩子他们是多么有能力这种教养方式是错误的，故选D。

【4】D写作手法题。从文章内容可以看出作者在提出如何帮助孩子培养能力这一主旨后，主要通过讲解的方式从几个方面进行了说明，由此判断答案选D。

【5】A 推理判断题。文章介绍了如何帮助孩子培养能力，由此判断文章应该出现在教育版面，故选A。