题目内容
If parents bring up a child with the aim of turning the child a genius, they will cause great damage to him.According to several leading educational psychologists, this is one of the biggest mistakes which some parents make.Generally, the child will understand very well what the parent expects, and will fail.Unrealistic parental expectations can cause great damage to children.
However, if parents are not unrealistic about what they expect their children to do, but are hopeful in a sensible way, the child may succeed in doing very well especially if the parents are very supportive of their child.
Michael Li is very lucky.He is very fond of music, and his parents help him a lot by taking him to concerts and arranging private piano and violin lessons for him.They even drive him 50 kilometres twice a week for violin lessons.Although Michael's father plays the trumpet (小号) in a large orchestra (管弦乐队), however, he never makes Michael enter music competitions if he is unwilling to.
Michael's friend, Winston Chen, however, is not so lucky.Although both his parents are successful musicians, they set too high a standard for Winston.They want their son to be as successful as they are and so they enter him in every piano competition held.They are very unhappy when he does not win.“When I was your age, I used to win every competition I entered.” Winston's father tells him.Winston is always afraid that he will disappoint his parents and now he always seems quiet and unhappy.
1.The main idea of the passage is________.
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A.how parents should make a child a musician
B.how parents should bring up a child
C.what differences there are between two kinds of parents
D.what aim of a child can be much easier to reach
2.Michael is lucky because ________.
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A.his parents help him in a sensible way
B.his family is rich enough to have a car
C.his father is a musician in an orchestra
D.he is free to do anything that he likes best
3.Winston's parents set so high a standard for him that ________.
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A.he has to try his best to do everything
B.he has made greater progress in music
C.he is afraid he may disappoint them
D.he often wants to kill himself some day
4.It is one of parents' worst mistakes if ________.
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A.they want their child to be a musician
B.they help their child to win music competitions
C.they don't care much for their child's education
D.they make their child try to achieve too much
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