题目内容
A child who has once been pleased with a tale likes, as a rule, to have it retold in almost the same words, but this should not lead parents to treat printed fairy stories as formal texts．It is always much better to tell a story than read it out of a book, and, if a parent can produce what, in the actual circumstances（情况） of the time and the individual child, is an improvement on the printed text, that’s much better．
A charge made against fairy tales is that they harm the child by frightening him or making him sad thinking．To prove the latter, one would have to show in a controlled experiment that children who have read fairy stories were more often guilty of cruelty than those who had not．As to fears, there are, I think, some cases of children being dangerously terrified by some fairy story．Often, however, this arises from the child who has heard the story once．Familiarity with the story by repetition turns the pain of fear into the pleasure of a fear faced and mastered．
There are also people who are opposed to fairy stories in that they are not true, that giants, witches, two-headed dragons, magic carpets, etc．do not exist; and that, instead of being fond of the strange side in fairy tales, the child should be taught how to adapt to reality by studying history and mechanics．I find such people, I must say so strange that I do not know how to argue with them．If their cases were sound, the world should be full of mad men attempting to fly from New York to Philadelphia on a stick or covering a telephone with kisses in the belief that it was their beloved girlfriend．
No fairy story has ever claimed（声称） to be description of the real world and no clever child has ever believed that it was．
1．The author considered that a fairy story is more effective _______．
A．when a story is repeated without any change
B．when we treat a story as a joke
C．when the parent makes some changes about a story
D．when the story is set in the present time
2．According to the passage, when can great fear take place in a child?
A．When a story is in a realistic setting． B．When a story is heard for the first time．
C．When a story is repeated too often． D．When a story is told in a different way．
3．What is the advantage claimed for repeating fairy stories to young children?
A．Making them less fearful．
B．Developing their power of memory．
C．Making them believe there is nothing to be afraid of．
D．Encouraging them not to have strange beliefs．
4．The author’s mention of sticks and telephones is meant to suggest that _______．
A．fairy stories are still being made up
B．there is some misunderstandings about fairy tales
C．people try to update old fairy stories
D．there is more concern for children’s fears nowadays
CBAB
When a child is told he is "uncool", it can be very painful. He may say he doesn't care, and even act in ways that are opposite of cool on purpose. But ultimately, these are simply ways to handle sadness by pretending it's not there.
Helping a child feel better in school had to be careful. If you say, "Why are you worried about what other children think about you? It doesn't matter!" Children know that it does matter. Instead, an active way may be best. You could say, "I'm going to do a couple of things for you to help you feel better in school."
If a boy is having trouble making friends, the teacher can help him. The teacher can arrange things so that he has chances to use his abilities to contribute to class projects. This is how the other children learn how to value his good qualities and to like him. A teacher can also raise a child's popularity in the group by showing that he values that child. It even helps to put him in a seat next to a very popular child, or let him be a partner with that child in activities, etc.
There are things that parents can do at home, too. Be friendly when your child brings others home to play. Encourage him to invite friends to meals and then serve the dishes they consider "super". When you plan trips, picnics, movies, and other shows, invite another child with whom your child wants to be friends.
What you can do is to give him a chance to join a group that may be shutting him out. Then, if he has good qualities, he can start to build real friendship of his own.
【小题1】A child who has been informed of being "uncool" may ________.
| A．care nothing about it | B．develop a sense of anger |
| C．do something uncool purposely | D．pretend to get hurt very much |
| A．seeing the child as the teacher's favourite |
| B．asking the child to do something for partners |
| C．forcing other children to make friends with the child |
| D．offering the child chances to show his good qualities |
| A．Children don’t care others' comments on them. |
| B．It's only teacher's work to make children popular. |
| C．Parents should take their children out for picnic and shows more often. |
| D．Inviting children's friends to family activities is good for them to make friends. |
| A．how to help an unpopular child |
| B．why some children are unpopular |
| C．who is responsible for unpopular children |
| D．how to find out good points of unpopular children |
Are some people born clever, and others born stupid? Or is intelligence developed by our environment and our experiences? Strangely enough，the answer to both these questions is yes. To some extent（程度）our intelligence is given to us at birth，and special education can never make a genius(天才) out of a child born with low intelligence. On the other hand, a child who lives in a boring environment will develop his intelligence less than one who lives in rich and varied surroundings. Thus the limits of a person’s intelligence are fixed at birth, but whether or not he reaches those limits will depend on his environment. This view, now held by most experts can be supported in a number of ways.
It is easy to say that intelligence is to some extent something we are born with. The closer the blood relationship between two people, the closer they are likely to be in intelligence. Thus if we take two unrelated people at random from the population, it is likely that their degrees of intelligence will be completely different. If on the other hand we take two identical twins, they will very likely be as intelligent as each other. Relations like brothers and sisters，parents and children，usually have similar intelligence, and this clearly suggests that intelligence depends on birth.
Imagine that now we take two identical twins and put them in different environments. We might send one, for example, to a university and the other to a factory where the work is boring. We would soon find differences in intelligence developing, and this indicates that environment as well as birth plays a part. This conclusion is also suggested by the fact that people who live in close contact with each other, but who are not related at all, are likely to have similar degrees of intelligence.
1.By using the example that two people closer in blood relationship are closer in intelligence that writer wants to prove _ .
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A．intelligence can be developed by environment |
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B．intelligence is given at birth |
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C．intelligence can be developed by experience |
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D．education plays an important part in the development of education |
2.A child who lives in rich and varied surroundings turns out higher in intelligence because ________.
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A．his family is rich and therefore can afford to develop his intelligence |
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B．he can break the limits of intelligence fixed at birth |
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C．his family is rich and provides him with various healthy food |
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D．these surroundings are likely to help him reach the limits of their intelligence |
3.In the second paragraph “if we take two unrelated people at random from the population．．．” means “if we ____．”
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A．choose two persons who are relative |
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B．take out two different persons |
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C．choose two persons with different intelligence |
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D．pick any two persons |
4.The best title for this passage might be __________.
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A．Birth and Environment |
B．Intelligence |
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C．The Answer to a Question |
D．Intelligence and Education |