Question

If parents bring up child with the aim of turning the child into a genius(天才),they will cause great damage to him. According to several leading educational psychologists(心理学家),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(不现实的) 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(有理智的) 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 kilometers twice a week for violin lessons. Although Michael’s mother knows very little about music. 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.

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 __________.

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 __________.

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 a orchestra

D. he is free to do anything that he likes best

3. Winston’s parents set so high a standard for him that__________.

A. he has to do 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 __________.

A. they want their child to be a musician

B. they help their child to win music competitions

C. they don’t care for their child’s education much

D. they make their child try to achieve too much

5. According to the author’s opinion,__________.

A. it is unimportant to let the children develop in the way they want

B. parents should be supportive of their children

C. all sensible parents can train their children to succeed in everything

D. unrealistic parents should arrange private lessons for their children

 

Answer 1

答案：1C2A3C4D5B
提示：

1题此题考查文章大意。这是一篇议论文。前两段提出问题，从反正两面提出如何培养教育(bring up)孩子成才的问题；后两段从正反两面进行例证。2题此题考查上下文的逻辑关系。文章第二段从正面提出“如果家长不对孩子抱着不现实的幻想，而是以理智的方法对其进行帮助，孩子就有可能成功……”，而Michael就很幸运(Michael is very lucky)。接着文章第三段介绍了Michael的父母的明智的(sensible)、支持(supportive)孩子学习的教育方式。3题Winston的父母抱着不现实的期盼，给孩子定的目标太高，对孩子并没有什么帮助，反而使孩子总是担心会使父母失望。4题文章第一段提到：几位重要的教育心理学家认为，以把孩子培养成天才为目的，是有些家长所犯的最大的错误之一。5题此题考查作者的倾向性。