What do working mothers worry about the most? It’s the kids of course．Whatever the setting, the question I get asked the most is “Will the kids be alright?” It’s made me realize that we tend to look at the glass half-empty rather than half-filled when it comes to mixing work and family．We forget about all the benefits that we bring to our children when we work ---- and I’m not talking about the obvious financial benefits, although these of course shouldn’t be taken for granted．
About a year ago I remember getting a call from the school just as I was pulling up to the house after having driven 20 minutes to the school and 20 minutes back．“Mrs．Brown Quinn, your son asked us to call．He forgot his sports clothes．Can you come back to the school and drop them off?” I was exasperated(恼火)! I had already spent 40 minutes in aggressive weekday morning traffic．I replied, “Sorry, I’m working at the moment．I’m afraid my son needs to learn to be organized．”
Being a good parent requires delivering tough love sometimes．Kids need to learn to be independent．It can be a cruel and competitive world out there．Seeking interests, including business, outside of your kids, can give you that extra idea that you need not care for your kids with attention．This benefit of working isn’t always immediately evident．
It wasn’t until our daughter went away to college that she realized why we had raised her in the way that we did．“Mom, I can’t believe how so many of my friends struggle to manage things on their own．They are constantly calling their parents for help．” You’ll love that moment! After all those years of complaining about why you don’t do this or why you don’t give them that, your kids realize that tough love has made them better people．
(1)
The author refused to drop off her son’s sports clothes because ________．
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A．
she was caught in heavy traffic
B．
she was busy working
C．
she thought her son was lying
D．
she wanted her son to be organized
(2)
How can kids become better people according to the author?
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A．
By giving them all your attention．
B．
By giving them freedom to do things on their own．
C．
By showing them your deep love．
D．
By giving them tough love．
(3)
The daughter’s attitude towards the author is ________ when she grows up．
To take the apple as a forbidden fruit is the most unlikely strory the Christians(基督教徒)ever cooked up．For them, the forbidden fruit from Eden is evil(邪恶的)．So when Colu brought the tomato back from South America, a land mistakenly considered to be eden, ever jumped to be the obvious conclusion．Wrongly taken as the apple of Eden, the tomato was shut o the door of Europeans．
What made it particularly terrifying was its similarity to the mandrake, a plant that was the to have come from Hell(地狱)．What earned the plant its awful reputation was its roots w looked like a dried-up human body occupied by evil spirits．Tough the tomato and the man were quite different except that both had bright red or yellow fruit, the general population consio them one and the same, to terrible to touch．
Cautious Europeans long ignored the tomato, and until the early 1700s most of the We people continued to drag their feet．In the 1880s, the daughter of a well-known plant expert that the most interestinig part of an afternoon tea at her father's house had been the “introduction this wonderful new fruit-or is it a vegetable?”As late as the twentieth century some writers classed tomatoes with mandrakes as an”evil fruit”．
But in the end tomatoes carried the day．The hero of the tomato was an American named R Johnson, and when he was publicly going to eat the tomato in 1820, people journeyed for hun of miles to watch him drop dead．”Wha are you afraid of?”he shouted．”I'll show you fools these things are good to eat!” Then he bit into the tomato．Some people fainted．But he sur and, according to a local story, set up a tomato-canning factory．
(1)
The tomato was shut out of the door of early Europeans mainly because ________．
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A．
it made Christive evil
B．
it was the apple of Eden
C．
it came from a forbidden land
D．
it was religiously unacceptable
(2)
What can we infer the underlined part in Paragraph 3?
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A．
The process of ignoring the tomato slowed down
B．
There was little pregress in the study of the tomato
C．
The tomato was still refused in most western countries
D．
Most western people continued to get rid of the tomato
(3)
What is the main reason for Robert Johnson to eat the tomato Publicly?
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A．
To manke imself a hero
B．
To remove people's fear of the tomaoto
C．
To speed up the popularityt of the tomato
D．
To persuade people to buy products fo\rom his factory
(4)
What is the main purpose of the passage?
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A．
To challenge people's fixed concept of the tomato
B．
To give an explanation to people's dislike of the tomato
C．
To present the change of people's attitudes to the tomato
D．
To show the process of freeing the tomato from religious influence
