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All children in the United States have to receive an education, but not all children go to school. A number of parents 36 not to send their children to school. Such children are known 37 “home-schoolers”. Some parents prefer teaching their children at home 38 they do not believe schools teach the correct religious (宗教的) 39 ; others believe they can provide a better educational 40 for their children by doing so. 41 , results show home-schooled children often do better than 42 on national tests in reading and math.
David teaches his three children at home. He 43 that his children learn very differently from children in school. Learning starts with the children’s 44 and questions. For example, when there is snowfall on a winter day, it may 45 a discussion about climate, snow removal 46 , Alaska, etc. Or a spring evening when the family is out 47 the stars is a good time to ask questions about the sky. If the Brazilian rain forests are on TV, it 48 be a perfect time to talk about how rain forests influence the climate, how deserts are 49 and how the polar ice caps 50 ocean levels.
Home schooling is often more interesting than 51 schools, but critics (批评家) say home-schoolers might be uncomfortable 52 with other people in adult life. Critics also say that most parents are not 53 to teach their children. However, most parents don’t have the time or the 54 to teach their children at home, so schools will continue to be 55 most children get their formal education.
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【解析】文章讲述的是美国的两种教育,一种学校教育一种是家庭教育,文章主要就家庭教育的利弊进行了阐述。
1.句意理解,选择不去学校教育的家长是更愿意不送他们的孩子去学校。
2.没有被送去学校教育的孩子就是人们所熟知的:home-schooler".
3.句意理解,一些家长更喜欢在家里教他们的孩子,因为他们不相信学校教授正确的宗教价值观。
4.同上
5.句意理解,根据educational可知,此处指的是教育体验。其他选项不合符句意。
6.上下文,根据后面的results可知,此处指的是实际上,结果表明家庭教育的孩子经常在阅读和数学的测验中表现比平均水平要好。
7.同上, normal 正常 ordinary 普通的 common常见的average平均的
8.句意理解,后面的是他表达的内容,所以是他说他的孩子的学习和学校中的学习是不一样的。
9.上下文,根据后文可知,David教育孩子学习的方式是由兴趣和问题开始的。
10.句意理解,当冬天下雪的时候,他们就可以开始关于气候等方面的讨论。
11.常用搭配,snow removal equipment 意为,除雪设备
12.常用搭配,看星星,用的是watch。
13.情态动词。句意为,如果巴西雨林出现在电视中,这肯那个就是一个讨论雨林对气候影响的最完美的时候。
14.句意理解,关于沙漠是如何形成的
15.句意理解,极地冰川是如何影响海平面的。
16.常用搭配,日常生活中的学校教育成为,regular school即普通学校或者正规学校
17.句意理解,mix with other people 意为与他人交往
18.句意理解,批评家说,大部分家长不适合教他们的孩子。
19.然而,大部分家长都没有时间在家里教孩子或者没有在家里教孩子的要求
20.句意理解,所以学校还是大部分孩子接受正规教育的地方。
“Linda, if beating yourself up were an Olympic sport, you’d win a gold medal!”
Annabel, my close friend, stunned(使…震惊)me with that frank observation after I told her how I had mishandled a situation with a student in a third-grade class where I was substituting(代替). “I should never have let him go to the boy’s room without a pass! It was my fault he got into trouble with the hall monitor! I’m so stupid!”
My friend burst out laughing, and then made her “Olympic” comment. After a brief period of reflection I had to admit that she was right. I did put myself down an awful lot. Why, just during the previous day I had called myself “a slob” for having some papers spread out on my desk, “ugly” when I left the house without makeup and “an idiot” when I left the house for an emergency substitute job without my emergency lesson plan.
In a more reflective tone, Annabel said, “I once took a workshop at church where the woman in charge had us list all the mean things we say about ourselves.”
“How many did you have on your list?” I asked.
“Fifteen,” she confessed. “But then the teacher said, ‘Now turn to the person next to you and say all the items on your list as if you were speaking to that person!’ ”
My jaw dropped,“What did you do?”
“Nothing. Nobody did. We all just sat there, until I said, ‘I could never say these things to anyone else!’ ”
“And our teacher replied, ‘Well, if you can’t say them to anyone else, then don’t ever say them to yourself!’ ”
My friend had a point. I would never insult a child of God---and I’m God’s child, too!
God, today let me be as kind to myself as I would be to another of Your children.
【小题1】What does Annabel mean by the first sentence of the passage?
A.The writer is a good athlete. |
B.The writer scolds herself too much. |
C.She is encouraging the writer |
D.A gold medal is not a big deal. |
A.She has low self-esteem over some small things. |
B.She often makes serious mistakes in daily life. |
C.She is a third-grade teacher. |
D.She cares too much about her appearance. |
A.something untidy | B.someone dangerous | C.something dirty | D.someone lazy |
A.She used to put herself down a lot. |
B.She often goes to church. |
C.She was in charge of a workshop. |
D.She used to be too shy to talk to others. |
A.She is ready to turn to God for help. |
B.She will be kind to all children. |
C.She won’t insult(侮辱) herself as well as others. |
D.She is willing to be a child of God. |
Almost two-thirds of children want their parents to spend more time reading to them before bed, and most prefer Mum’s storytelling to Dad’s, researchers said.
They carried out a study that showed younger children aged 3-4 were most hungry for more stories, with over three-quarters saying they wished their parents read to them more often.
More than half of all children aged 3-8 said story time was their favourite pastime with their parents.
"The results of our research confirm the traditional activity of storytelling continues to be a powerful learning and emotional resource in children's lives," said child psychologist Richard Woolfson.
Storytelling ranked higher than television or video games among pastimes for kids, and 82 percent said reading a story with their parents helped them sleep better, according the survey of 500 children aged 3-8 in Britain.
The best storytellers were mothers who used funny voices to illustrate different characters or made their own special sound effects to keep the story moving, researchers said.
When mum and dad are not at hand, celebrities(名人) will do: over 30 percent of children said they would like to hear a bedtime story from Harry Potter star Daniel Radcliffe, with teen idols(偶像) Zac Efron, Miley Cyrus and Emma Watson.
"It can be very difficult for parents to find the time to read with their children, but these moments can help build strong relations and play a vital part in their child's development," said Woolfson.
【小题1】The underlined word “pastime” in the passage most probably means .
A.old time | B.entertainment | C.emotion | D.character |
A.pointing out similarities and differences | B.following the natural time order |
C.comparing opinions from different fields | D.providing examples and statistics |
A.grow stronger | B.become more emotional | C.sleep better | D.become more powerful |