题目内容
Often, your mind is challenged by a flood of pop culture messages, .peer pressure, and overscheduled lives that leave little time for good reflection. So, it's easy to forget that learning values and character at homo is as important as any schoolwork or after-school activity.
In the real world of jobs and career, people are judged by two standards: their professional skills and their personal personalities. While grade school, high school, and college can teach skills and proficiency (熟练), it's up to parents to teach children the qualifies that make for success in the real world -- diligence, a cooperative attitude, creativity, optimism, and honesty. Schools -- particularly colleges -- don't focus on these issues. That's the job of the parents, so take the responsibility seriously. Send your kids into the world ready to handle not only the tasks of life but also its barriers, social obstacles, and disappointments with skill and character.
Children need personal reliability and morals as much as any adult. Bullies will always be around, tasks won't always be assigned fairly, the good guys won't always win, and money won't always be in plenty supply. Exposing children to the rough realities of life isn't cruel; giving them that experience and coaching them through it is part and parcel of raising kids to have courage, flexibility, and honor.
You really can't start too soon. After all, if you don't guide and shape your children, who will?
1．The underlined word "reflection" in the 1st paragraph is of the similar meaning to the one used in __________
A．We could see the reflection of clouds on the water
B．Anna stared at her reflection in the mirror carefully
C．After a period of reflection, Andrew decided to leave
D．Your choice of clothes is a reflection of your personality
2．School systems usually center on __________.
A．professional capacities B．personal personalities
C．sense of responsibility D．standards of proficiency
3．We can infer that __________.
A．parents should take the duty to handle the tasks of their children
B．children's personal reliability and morals are the same as any adult's
C．children should be educated to be well prepared for the real world
D．parents should not guide and shape their children at home too soon
4．The passage is particularly intended for _________.
A．school students B．parents
C．social workers D．educators
CACB
Your smartphone can do a lot of things. It can call people. It connects to the Internet. It enables you to play fun games. But there is a dark side to this smart little equipment of yours----- it might also spread disease.
“People are just likely to get sick from their phones as from handles of the bathroom, ” Jeffrey Cain, the president of the American Academy of Family Physicians , told The Wall Street Journal.
This may be hard to believe, but scientists reached this conclusion after they tested eight cell phones from an office in Chicago. All the tested phones showed high numbers of coliforms (大肠菌), a kind of bacteria found in human waste , with about 2700 to 4200 units of the bacteria on each phone. The bacteria can cause flu, pinkeye and other diseases . That is right --- your phone is covered in our human waste.
Although computers, keys and pens carry germs (细菌) , our phones get far dirtier. They touch a lot of things, including our hands and the inside of our pocket or purse. We take them almost everywhere: the bus, the subway and who hasn’t played Angry Birds or Fruit Ninja while sitting on the toilet?
“Some things that we think are personal are actually more public than we imagine,” Cain said. What is even worse is that after the phone returns from its dirty trip, it then spends most of its time cozying up to our faces. You don’t think about how often you touch your phone to your face, do you? Our noses, mouths and ears are all warm and rich in grease (油脂) , an environment that germs really like.
So how do you keep your phone clean? Alcohol is effective when used to kill germs from the back and side of your phone. But it might harm the screen. There is one simple and reliable way you can reduce the germs on your phone’s surface: wash your hands regularly.
【小题1】The underlined word “dark” in the first paragraph means _______
| A．black | B．hopeless | C．unpleasant | D．unclear |
| A．Terrified | B．concerned | C．Satisfying | D．Threatening |
| A．people love to share their phones more than they realize |
| B．our personal items could be as risky to our health as public items |
| C．phones are used in public places more than people realize |
| D．Most people don’t know how dirty their cell phones are |
| A．Tips on the use of phones |
| B．Health problems caused by the use of phones |
| C．The danger of coliforms infection |
| D．The influence that phone have on our life |