题目内容
Make sure that the exercise you give the children is ________ pupil’s reach.
- A.under
- B.beyond
- C.above
- D.within
However important we may regard school life to be, there is always the fact that children spend more time at home than in the classroom. Therefore, the teacher should realize that parents have a great influence on their children. Parents can become strong allies (助手) of the school or they can get in the way of the school education.
Experts have realized the need to keep parents informed of the newer methods used in schools. Many headmasters have conducted workshops explaining such matters as the reading readiness, program writing and mathematics to parents.
Moreover, the classroom teacher, with the permission of the supervisors(管理者), can also play an important part in giving more knowledge to reporting pupils progress, teachers can help parents a lot in educating their children and parents can give much help to teachers.
Suppose that a father has been drilling Junior arithmetic lessons night after night. In a friendly talk between the teacher and the father, the teacher can help the parent to make Junior interested in it. He might be persuaded to let Junior join in discussing the family budget, buying the food, using a ruler or measuring cup at home, setting the clock, calculating the distance of a trip and engaging in scores of other activities that have a mathematical basis.
If the father follows the advice, it is reasonable to say that he will soon realize that his son is making satisfactory progress in mathematics, and at the same time, enjoying the work.
Too often, however, teachers’ talks with parents are devoted to small accounts of children’s misdemeanors(不良行为). They talk about the laziness and poor work habits of the children.
What is needed is a more creative way in which the teacher, as an adviser, plants ideas in parents’ minds to make sure that the child spends the many hours out of the classroom learning something useful.
In this way the school and the home join forces in educating children.
【小题1】The main idea of the passage is that ____.
A.home training is more important than school training |
B.parents should help their children to do their homework |
C.there’re many ways in which the mathematics program can be carried out at home |
D.teachers can and should help parents to use better ways to teach their children |
A.is satisfied with the relationship between school and home |
B.feels that parent-teacher talks can be made much more constructive |
C.believes that schools can’t teach pupils well |
D.calls on parents to teach their children mathematics at home |
A.Classes for parents. | B.New type of report card. |
C.Parent-teacher talk. | D.Dinner or party. |
A.interesting activities can improve one’s achievement |
B.too many children are lazy and have poor work habits |
C.teachers should often make home visits to parents |
D.headmasters do more than teachers in this area |
A.father’s helping his son with his study |
B.written reports to the parents from the teachers |
C.talking about children’s shortcomings |
D.having the parents help their children with their lessons |
A long time ago, in an Italian city, the people there built a tower which was admired by everyone passing through. A little further down the road, in a neighboring city, they had built a tower of similar beauty. The two towers were equally well known. The people of the second city, envious (妒忌的) and filled with pride, planned to destroy the neighboring tower so it wouldn’t take attention away from their own. One night, they came to the tower and began to quietly undermine its foundations(地基).
The next morning, the tower was leaning(倾斜) slightly ,but nobody noticed. The same happened for the following few days, until a little girl who was passing by pointed up at the tower and said: “ I think the tower is going to fall down.” And everyone around looked closely, and could see that she was right .Nervousness spread through the city. And they tried many methods to try to straighten the tower, but nothing seemed to work. That was, until one day when the same little girl was walking up again, and she put her arm on the side of the tower to rest. She felt the tower shaking slightly. When she took her hand off it, the movement stopped. And when she put it back on again, the same thing happened. The girl spent a while doing this, until she was completely certain of what she had discovered: “ The tower is ticklish ( 怕痒的) !” She ran to get some plants, and she planted them right next to the tower. Now if the tower leant over any further it would be tickled by the leaves of those plants. Being a ticklish tower, it would then return to where it had been. In this way, the girl managed to make sure that the tower didn’t fall down, but still kept it leaning a little.
The fact that it was leaning made it even more famous, and this taught a fine lesson to the envious people of the neighboring city.
【小题1】Why did the people of the second city plan to destroy the neighboring tower?
A.Because the tower blocked the way of their tourists. |
B.Because the tower had the same building style as theirs. |
C.Because they hoped that the tower could lean slightly. |
D.Because they hoped that visitors just liked their own tower. |
A.test | B.raise | C.damage | D.strengthen |
A.very anxious |
B.very happy |
C.very ashamed of themselves |
D.angry at the people in the neighboring city |
A.All that ends well is well. |
B.Every dog has his day. |
C.A bad beginning makes a bad ending. |
D.A friend is never known till a man has need. |