题目内容
–We want someone to design the art museum for us.
–_____ the young fellow have a try?
A. May B. Shall C. Will D. Need
B
During the school year many parents take on the role of driver as they drive their children from one lesson to another .Understandably so. Many of us want our children to have a little taste of everything, from organized sports to music, dance and more. But we can overdo it, leaving our children feeling a little burnt out, and according to parent educator Diane Loisie ,it’s their school work which suffers the most. “After school, if they’re busy in a number of sporting events, besides they need to do their homework, then the time they’ll feel sleepy is in the classroom. Your child needs free time. So if you’re filling up that after school time, then it’s during the day that they’re going to be taking a break.”
Professor Claire McDermott agrees that there’s a lot to be gained from sometimes putting those scheduled lessons and activities away. “Relaxing time is important for children. It’s time just to do the things they want to do. A child can go up to their room, or they can play around. It doesn’t look like productive time; parents certainly wouldn’t be saying ‘Wow, are they ever learning things now?’ But this relaxing time gives both the body and the brain just a wonderful chance to relax after a day. It helps a child prepare for sleep, but it also helps to understand the learning that’s gone on that day.”
It’s hard to prevent signing our kids up for some activities and lessons. After all, many of us want our children to have a head start in life and the chance to join in great activities in the arts or sports is a part of that. However, Loisie feels that in the long run most children feel better with just a few key activities because it gives them an opportunity to master them. “When we get our children in too many activities because we want our children to experience everything, then what we’re doing is setting them up not to be good at one thing or gaining a skill.” So choose your children’s activities wisely. It may be one of the best things you’ve ever done for your kids… and for the family drivers!
1.What is the biggest disadvantage for children to attend too many lessons after school?
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A．They can get bored easily about everything. |
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B．They might have no time to do the homework. |
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C．They might not pay much attention to learning. |
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D．They cannot easily focus on learning during the day. |
2.What should we think of children’s playing around aimlessly?
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A．It is productive. |
B．It is helpful. |
C．It is a bad habit. |
D．It is a waste of time. |
3.Why should parents limit the activities our children attend?
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A．Because children have no time. |
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B．Because children cannot learn many things. |
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C．Because children do not have enough sleep. |
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D．Because children cannot focus on too many activities. |
4.What is the main idea of this passage?
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A．Don’t be children’s drivers after school. |
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B．Choose activities for your children wisely. |
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C．Make your children learn as much as possible. |
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D．Let children learn something from various subjects. |
My wife and I used to feel that it was impossible to be a true friend to someone whose name we didn’t know. How wrong we were! Years of Sunday-morning bus trips through the city with the same group of “nameless” people have changed our thinking. Before the bus takes off, we all join in a conversation: where’s the silent woman who sits up front and never responds to our cheery greetings? Here she comes. Her worn clothing suggests she doesn’t have much money to spare, but she always takes an extra cup of coffee for the driver.
We get smiles from a Mexican couple as they get on the bus hand in hand. When they get off, they’re still holding hands. The woman was pregnant late last year, and one day her change of shape confirmed that she’d delivered the child. We even felt a little pride at the thought of our extended family.
For many months, our only sadness lay in our inability to establish the same friendship with the silent woman at the front of the bus. Then, one evening, we went to a fish restaurant. We were shown to a table alongside someone sitting alone. It was the woman from the bus.
We greeted her with friendly familiarity we’d shown all year, but this time her face softened, then a shy smile. When she spoke, the words escaped awkwardly from her lips. All at once we realized why she hadn’t spoken to us before. Talking was hard for her.
Over dinner; we learned the stay of a single mother with a disabled son who was receiving special care away from home. She missed him desperately, she explained.
“I love him… and he loves me, even though he doesn’t express it very well,” she murmured. “Lots of us have that problem, don’t we? We don’t say what we want to say, what we should be saying. And that’s not good enough.”The candles flared on our tables. Our fish had never tasted better. But the atmosphere grew pleasant, and when we parted as friends—we shared names.
1.Which of the following might be the best title of this passage?
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A．Friends of the Road |
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B．The Silent Woman on the Bus |
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C．Going to Work by Bus |
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D．Different Kinds of Friendship |
2.All the following statements can describe the woman except ______.
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A．poor |
B．warm -hearted |
C．silent |
D．cold |
3.The underlined word “establish” in the third paragraph probably has the same meaning as
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A．keep |
B．discover |
C．set up |
D．accept |
4.Why did the woman usually keep silence while taking the bus?
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A．She was worried about her disabled son. |
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B．She was sad to see the happy Mexican couple us a single mother. |
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C．She had difficulty in expressing herself. |
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D．She was only interested in the bus driver. |
5.The woman had the same problem with her son in the way that ______.
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A．they both disabled people |
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B．they both had some difficulty in expressing |
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C．they both liked bus travel |
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D．they both brought interest to the passengers |