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Your kids learn a lot from their friends — things you can't teach them, no matter how much you want to.

Probably the most important thing kids learn is how to have peer relationships. As a parent, you can't do this, because you and your child aren't equals.

For example, when you're sitting on your family room floor and your very young child asks you to pass him the blocks, you probably hand them right over. If your child is sitting with a peer and asks the same thing, though, he might not get what he wants.

To succeed, your child will need to learn strategies for getting what he wants. For example, he might simply yank(猛拉) the toy out of his friend's hand. If he does that, he may learn that it's not the best way of getting what he wants because it leads to fighting and time?outs. The successful child will learn that he needs to negotiate a trade, to wait patiently, or to find something else equally fun to play with.

Friends also provide emotional support, something that is part of the foundation of healthy adulthood. You can't be with your child on the elementary school playground or at the high school dance. Your child's friends will be the ones to stick_up_for her, to include her in games, and later, to tell her she looks great even if her lousy prom (糟糕的舞会) date wanders off instead of dancing with her.

Friends also help your children learn. Friends solve problems together, imitate each other, and pass on knowledge.

Some experts believe that the single biggest predictor of your child's success later in life is her ability to make friends. In fact, they claim it's even more important than IQ and grades.

This doesn't mean that the kids who are most popular in school do the best later on in life. What matters is not the number of friends a child has but rather the quality of the relationships.

This is good news for those of us who hate to think that popularity really is the Holy Grail of childhood and adolescence. While it's true that popularity has many advantages, and that many popular kids really are nice people — and not just the best dressed or best looking — it's better to have a few good friends than to have the admiration of the masses.

1.By giving the example in Paragraph 3, the author wants to show that ________.

A.kids can learn how to deal with the relationships when they stay with their peers

B.parents should spend more spare time playing with their kids

C.kids should learn how to be polite when they ask their parents for help

D.parents can teach their kids how to be good members in the modern society in their daily life

2.What does the underlined phrase “stick up for” in the fifth paragraph mean?

A.Envy. B.Oppose.

C.Support. D.Ignore.

3.In the author's opinion, ________ is more important than being popular for kids.

A.getting high grades

B.having some real friends

C.developing a good habit

D.knowing how to dress themselves up

4.Which of the following can be the best title for the passage?

A.How to Bridge the Generation Gap

B.What It Takes to Be a Good Friend

C.Why Friends Are Important

D.How to Be Popular in School

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An 80-year-old man was sitting on the sofa in his house along with his 45-year-old highly educated son.

Suddenly a crow(乌鸦)perched on the tree near their window.

The father asked his son, ''What is this? ''

The son replied, ''It is a crow. ''

After a few minutes, the father asked his son the 2nd time, ''What is this? ''

The son said, ''Father, I have just now told you 'It's a crow'. ''

After a little while, the old father again asked his son the 3rd time, ''What is this? ''

''It's a crow, a crow, a crow.'' said the son loudly.

A little after, the father again asked his son the 4th time, ''What is this? ''

This time the son shouted at his father, ''Why do you keep asking me the same question again and again? 'IT IS A CROW'. Are you not able to understand this? ''

A little later the father went to his room and came back with an old diary, which he had kept since his son was born. On opening a page, he asked his son to read that page. When the son read it, the following words were written in the diary:

''Today my little son aged three was sitting with me on the sofa, when a crow was sitting on the window. My son asked me 23 times what it was, and I replied to him all 23 times that it was a crow. I hugged him lovingly each time he asked me the same question again and again for 23 times. I did not at all feel annoyed; I rather felt affection for my innocent child. ''

1. In what tone did the son say to his Father ''It's a crow, a crow, a crow. ''?

A. concerned B. anxious

C. impatient D. astonished

2.Why did the Father ask his son the same question again and again?

A. Because he couldn't understand what his son said.

B. Because he wanted to see how patient his son would be.

C. Because he wanted to make his son angry.

D. Because he was too old to remember anything.

3.How old was the old man when his son asked him 23 times ''What is this''?

A. 80 years old. B. 45 years old.

C. 35years old. D. 38 years old.

4.Where is the article most probably taken from?

A. Travel journal B. a collection of poetry

C. Newspaper D. a short story collection

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Do you have lunch at school? Do you like having lunch at school? School dinners (that means “lunch”) are a hot topic in the UK these days and there are lots of different opinions about what young people eat at lunchtime. Some people think that school meals are unhealthy; some people say that they are much better than in the past and others say that midday meals should be free for all school children.

A typical school dinner costs about 2 pounds a day for a secondary pupil in the UK. There is usually a main course, a dessert and a drink. Parents often pay in advance online. School dinners must include food groups such as fruit and vegetables, protein (for example meat, fish or cheese) and carbohydrate (for example rice or pasta). There are rules about how the food is prepared, for example there are limits on the quantity of fried food.

Martha Payne, from Scotland, started a blog called Neverseconds about her school dinners when she was just nine years old. She posts photographs of her lunch every day and gives the food a grade out of ten. The grade depends on the quality and quantity of the food and how healthy it is. She doesn't always give good grades. Her complaints include too much fried food, small quantities and hair in the food. Many people read her blog and young people from all over the world post pictures, of their school meals on Neverseconds.

Jamie Oliver, the celebrity British chef, is concerned about school dinners. He thinks that they need to be healthier and tastier. Jamie helped to promote Martha's blog by tweeting (在推特上写) about it and Neverseconds became very popular, very quickly on social media websites. On the blog, Martha also collects money for charity. The money is used to provide food for more than 600,000 poor children around the world.

1.School dinners can be a hot topic in the UK these days because ________.

A.parents cannot afford to pay for them

B.they have led to many healthy problems

C.people have different opinions about them

D.there are no rules about how the food is prepared

2.What do you know about the typical school dinner in the UK?

A.It's free for all school children.

B.It costs about 2 pounds a day for a secondary pupil.

C.It's low in protein and carbohydrate.

D.It has no fruit or vegetables.

3.Which of the following is the example of the underlined word “complaints”?

A.He has never phoned me since we parted.

B.She posts photographs every day in her blog.

C.They are always doing their work pretty well.

D.Today we had pizza, salad, then an apple for dessert.

4.How did Martha Payne's blog become popular?

A.Jamie Oliver helped to promote it.

B.Many people collected money for it.

C.Poor children could get free food from it.

D.Martha Payne spent most of her time on it.

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?Yuanxiao, Chinese Lantern Festival

The Lantern Festival is celebrated on the 15th of the first month of the Chinese lunar calendar. The festival ends the New Year's celebration. It is a fun festival. People carry lanterns and go into the streets at night to watch lion or dragon dances, play games and light firecrackers. Yuanxiao, a sweet dumpling made of rice flour, is the traditional food eaten during the festival. In Chinese, the festival is named after this food, which is said to represent family unity and happiness because it is sticky, round and sweet.

?The Dai Water?Splashing Festival

The Dai minority in Yunnan celebrate the Water?Splashing Festival in the middle of April. The festival celebrates the Dai Lunar New Year and lasts for three days. There are dragon races and fireworks displays on the first day and a fair on the second day. At the fair, young lovers throw love pouches to each other. The third day is the actual water?splashing day, people splash water on each other to wash away illnesses and bad luck and bring good luck for the coming year.

?Losar

Losar is a Tibetan word for New Year.“Lo” means “year” and “sar” means “new”. As the most popular festival among Tibetans, it is celebrated from the first day in the first month to the fifteenth day based on the traditional Tibetan calendar.

On the last day of the year, people clean their houses and prepare for the festival. On the first day of the New Year, Tibetan women usually wake up early at about 5 o'clock, and prepare for a special kind of barley wine for the family which have tsamba, brown sugar, and milk dregs. The whole family have to drink the wine in their beds and then continue to sleep, while the housewives sit in front of their windows, waiting for the sunrise. As soon as they see the sun rays in the east, they go to the well for the first bucket of water in the New Year. It is said that water in the well is the freshest and sweetest at this time and the family who get the lucky water earliest will be the most fortunate.

1.People eat yuanxiao during the Lantern Festival because

________.

A.it is the traditional food and has its symbolic meaning

B.it is delicious and easy to be made

C.it is sticky, round and sweet

D.it is made of rice flour

2.What can we know from Paragraph 2 about the word “fair”?

A.Young people splash water on each other at the fair.

B.It is the time when young people have meetings.

C.Young people find their lovers there.

D.Young people sing and dance there to celebrate the festival.

3.How many days does Tibetan Losar last?

A.2. B.3.

C.15. D.25.

4.The passage is mainly about________.

A.the culture and custom in China

B.the reason why people celebrate festivals

C.several festivals in China

D.the history of three festivals in China

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The Verizon Innovative App Challenge gives kids a chance to create apps (计算机应用程序) that can solve problems in their community.

Do you want to make a difference in your community? The Verizon Innovative App Challenge can get you started. The first step is to think of a problem in your community. The next step is to create an app that can solve the problem.

Groups of five to seven students in middle school or high school, led by a teacher, can enter the contest. First, teams compete on a local level. Teams that make it to the next round receive D|S5,000 for their schools. Finalists present their app ideas to judges in a live webinar (网络研讨会).

Next, the judges pick national winners. The top eight teams receive an additional D|S15,000 for their schools, and each team member receives a Samsung tablet. Plus, the winning teams get the chance to bring their app to life.

A group of six girls from Los Fresnos, Texas, won the second annual Verizon Innovative App Challenge. They came up with the Hello Navi app concept, short for “hello navigation”. The app was designed to help visually?impaired students navigate their school by using an internal compass and voice?over technology. Read more about the team in September 19, 2016 issue of TIME For Kids: Edition 3-4.

Do you have an app idea that could help solve a local issue? The deadline to register is November 24, 2016. Find more information and register your team at www. verizonfoundation. org/appchallenge.

Here are some tips from the Verizon Foundation to get you started:

•Get your team together for a brainstorming meeting. Write out all the ideas that come to mind.

• Don't ignore challenges. Think of the problems that exist in your community.

•Ask family, friends, and people in your community to share their thoughts about problems that they want to see solved.

1.The Verizon Innovative App Challenge was launched to ________.

A.let students create apps to solve problems

B.call on students to put their ideas into practice

C.inspire students to focus on social problems

D.encourage students to cooperate with teachers

2.In which order should one follow to enter the Verizon Innovative App Challenge?

①You think of a problem in your community.

②Your team compete against others in your city.

③You invent an app with your partners and teachers.

④Winning teams can compete to become national winners.

A.①②③④ B.①③②④

C.①④②③ D.④①③②

3.What does the 5th paragraph mainly talk about?

A.The winning team and their app of the second Verizon Innovative App Challenge.

B.An app designed to help the disabled to work on the computer.

C.An app concept that navigates blind students to explore nature.

D.Six girls from Los Fresnos, Texas who signed up for the contest.

4.What's the purpose of the passage?

A.To tell readers how to solve a local issue.

B.To invite kids to join in the Verizon Innovative App Challenge.

C.To offer readers information about a talent show.

D.To appeal to adults to make contributions to society.

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