题目内容
29. Studies show that the things that contribute most to a______of happiness cannot be bought.
A. cause B.thought C.suggestion D.Sense
D
According to some researchers, you should not praise children for everything that they do. It does not help them build self-confidence.
Most parents and teachers agree that praise can help increase children’s self-confidence —the more, the better. However, according to some researchers, only proper praise is good for children. If adults praise everything children do, it makes children look for praise all the time, not trying to do their best. "Teachers should not say things like ’good job’ or ’nice work’ whenever a child does anything. They should encourage them to continue to improve," some researchers advise.
Another idea is that children with high self-confidence are happier, and do better at school. About this, Marshall Duke, a researcher in children, says, "High self-confidence brought in by too much praise does not make children happier, get more, or become able to do more. Finding a child’s advantages (强项) and developing them can help build confidence more than too much praise can." Praise also loses its effect (影响) if it is given equally to all students.
"It’s important to tell children the truth about what they’ve done. Honest feedback (反馈) is far better than empty praise," Duke adds. "People have got into the habit of not telling children when they’re wrong. That makes it hard for them to deal with difficulties when they grow up. That’s just how the world is."
【小题1】According to some researchers, if parents praise their children too much, their children will ______.
A.always look for praise |
B.increase self-confidence |
C.become strong |
D.do better in their studies |
A.make them live more happily |
B.let them do more difficult work |
C.help them do better in school |
D.encourage them to improve |
A.Praise makes children become successful. |
B.Children don’t know what they’re really good at. |
C.The same praise for all children has no meaning. |
D.Duke thinks praise is more important than finding children’s strengths. |
A.It’s important to have the habit of praising children. |
B.Children should know their mistakes as soon as possible. |
C.We should praise children honestly and tell them their mistakes. |
D.What children with high self-confidence are like. |
How could we have thought so wrongly of as banana peel that it always hits the garbage? Utility of anything seems to be in the eyes of the beholder. The banana peel hasn't been an exception.
What most of us looked at as waste was converted to a thing of utility by Prithwis Mukhopadlyay, a 14-year-old prodigy. This Bengali boy, nourished in the US, Lake Junior High in Woodbury, Minnesota, has come up with an idea to convert banana peels to biogas.(生物气).
It's well known that almost any organic waste can be converted to biogas. But why biogas from banana peel has hit the news is because it produced five times as much biogas as manure(粪), a commonly used source for producing biogas, in the experiments Prithwis conducted.
He filled two airtight containers, one with manure and the other with banana peels. Then he mixed each content with water and connected them to empty jars via pipes to collect the gas produced. He placed a heater next to each jar and measured the gas collected for 60 days. His studies proved that banana peels produced five times more biogas than manure.
This project titled 'Comparison analysis: Eco-friendly source of energy for the future,' earned him a spot in Discovery Channel Young Scientist Challenge. This weekend, the young whiz is to showcase his research work along with 40 other finalists at Washington. "Initially, I thought of doing a project that would reduce global warming. Things changed after I visited a biogas plant in a village in India during my summer vacations. It was an amazing experience," Prithwis says.
【小题1】Why could Prithwis's finding receive the attention of the media?
A.Because he is a prodigy. |
B.Because he is of Bengali descent. |
C.Because he used an extremely rare organic waste to produce biogas. |
D.Because his research proved that banana peels can produce more biogas. |
A.Lake Junior High. B Discovery Channel.
C. India. D.His laboratory at home.
【小题3】This article probably appeared in a _________ magazine.
A.gourmet | B.science | C.computer | D.fashion |
Eddie McKay, a once-forgotten pilot, is a subject of great interest to a group of history students in Canada.
It all started when Graham Broad, a professor at the University of Western Ontario, found McKay’s name in a footnote in a book about university history. McKay was included in a list of university alumni (校友) who had served during the First World War, but his name was unfamiliar to Broad, a specialist in military history. Out of curiosity, Broad spent hours at the local archives (档案馆) in a fruitless search for information on McKay. Tired and discouraged, he finally gave up. On his way out, Broad’s glance happened to fall on an exhibiting case showing some old newspapers. His eye was drawn to an old picture of a young man in a rugby uniform. As he read the words beside the picture, he experienced a thrilling realization. “After looking for him all day, there he was, staring up at me out of the exhibiting case,” said Broad. Excited by the find, Broad asked his students to continue his search. They combed old newspapers and other materials for clues. Gradually, a picture came into view.
Captain Alfred Edwin McKay joined the British Royal Flying Corps in 1916. He downed ten enemy planes, outlived his entire squadron (中队) as a WWI flyer, spent some time as a flying instructor in England, then returned to the front, where he was eventually shot down over Belgium and killed in December 1917. But there’s more to his story. “For a brief time in 1916 he was probably the most famous pilot in the world,” says Broad. “He was credited with downing Oswald Boelcke, the most famous German pilot at the time.” Yet, in a letter home, McKay refused to take credit, saying that Boelcke had actually crashed into another German plane.
McKay’s war records were destroyed during a World War II air bombing on London — an explanation for why he was all but forgotten.
But now, thanks to the efforts of Broad and his students, a marker in McKay’s memory was placed on the university grounds in November 2007. “I found my eyes filling with tears as I read the word ‘deceased’ (阵亡) next to his name,” said Corey Everrett, a student who found a picture of Mckay in his uniform. “This was such a simple example of the fact that he had been a student just like us, but instead of finishing his time at Western, he chose to fight and die for his country.”
【小题1】What made Professor Broad continue his search for more information on McKay?
A.A uniform of McKay. | B.A footnote about McKay. |
C.A book on McKay. | D.A picture of McKay. |
A.He trained pilots for some time. |
B.He lived longer than other pilots. |
C.He died in the Second World War. |
D.He was downed by the pilot Boelcke. |
A.Belgium | B.Germany | C.Canada | D.England |
A.preferred fight to his study |
B.went to war before graduation |
C.left a picture for Corey Everrett |
D.set an example for his fellow students |
A.The research into war history. |
B.The finding of a forgotten hero. |
C.The pilots of the two world wars. |
D.The importance of military studies. |