The main cause why some children are aggressive and are “always angry with the world ”is that they have no idea how to realize that the term “problem solving” does not necessary mean solving a math problem or an assignment. When you hear experts tell you to teach your children problem_solving skill, what they mean is to teach your kids all about emotional managing and learning to cross the stormy waters of childhood ,and eventually , life .
Parents should teach their children as early as possible how to handle certain situations . Young children easily lose their temper .When things do not go their way , it makes them angry and frustrated and they can get violent . Especially since young child have limited self control , bursting into anger is a very easy thing for them to do .
Anything can set up a child’s tantrum . For example , you and your child went to the mall . He told you that he wanted to buy a new toy , but you refused because he had already had one on his birthday. He insisted because this one was the new version . But you still refused , so he began to get angry and started screaming .
There are a few things that you can do to teach your child some problem _solving skills. First, you need to find out what the problem is . Perhaps your child is having problems identifying the cause of his frustrations . As a parent, it will not be that hard for you to know what is going on in your child’life. After he calms down, ask him quietly why he got so mad and then together , help him think why he was so angry . When your child figures out what is really making him upset , help him think of ways to solve the problem and help him look at all his reactions and evaluate the potential consequences.
【小题1】who  would probably show interest in the passage ?
A, Experts      B, Teachers    C, Parents    D,Children
【小题2】In paragraph 2 , the writer stresses that it is necessary for______________.
A, parents to guide their children  through troubling cases.
B, parents to solve some problems for their children
C, children to depend on their parents sometimes
D, children to manage bad situations as their parents do
【小题3】In paragraph 3 the underlined word “tantrum” can be best replaced by “_________”
A, anger    B, habit    C, stress   D, aim
【小题4】Which would be the best title for the passage ?
A, Taking  more care of your children.
B, Teaching  your children problem_solving skills.
C, What  are  problem_solving skills.
D, Why do your children become so  angry ?

Once, my father and I were waiting to buy tickets for the circus. Finally, there only one family? _?? us and the counter, who made a big ?? on me. There were eight children, all probably under 12. You could ?? they weren’t rich. Their clothes weren’t expensive but ? . The children were well-behaved., standing in line behind their parents and ? talking about what they would see that night.

One could ? they had never been to the circus before. The mother was holding her husband’s hand while the father was smiling in ? . The ticket lady asked the father how many tickets he wanted. He proudly ? , “Eight for children and two for adults, please.”

The ticket lady told him the price. The man’s wife let go of ? hand, her head dropped, and his lip began to tremble. The father leaned a little ? and asked, “How much did you say?”

The ticket lady ? the price. The man didn’t have enough money. ? was he supposed to turn and tell his kids that he didn’t have enough ? to take them to the circus? Seeing this, my father put his hand in his pocket, ? a $20 bill and dropped it on the ground. Then my father? _? down, picked up the bill and said the man, “Excuse me, sir, this fell out of your pocket.”

The man knew what was going on. He wasn’t begging for it but certainly ? the timely help in such an ? situation. He took my father’s ? in both of his, squeezed(紧捏) tightly onto the ? , and with a rear running down his cheek, he replied, “Thank you, sir. This really _? a lot to me and my family.”

1.A. before????????????? B. between????????????? C. behind????????????? D. besides

2.A. difference????????????? B. effort????????????? C. impression????????????? D. suggestion

3.A. tell????????????? B. agree????????????? C. believe????????????? D. suppose

4.A. clean????????????? B. shabby????????????? C. simple????????????? D. common

5.A. disappointedly????????????? B. bitterly????????????? C. excitedly????????????? D. carelessly

6.A. sense????????????? B. expect????????????? C. doubt????????????? D. Recognize

7.A. surprise????????????? B. turn????????????? C. silence????????????? D. pride

8.A. laughed????????????? B. announced????????????? C. commented????????????? D. responded

9.A. my????????????? B. his????????????? C. her????????????? D. their

10.A. backwards????????????? B. away????????????? C. closer????????????? D. farther

11.A. refused????????????? B. recited????????????? C. reduced????????????? D. repeated

12.A. When????????????? B. Where????????????? C. How????????????? D. Why

13.A. time????????????? B. money????????????? C. chance????????????? D. courage

14.A. pulled out????????????? B. pulled up????????????? C. picked out????????????? D. picked up

15.A. jumped????????????? B. lay????????????? C. knocked????????????? D. reached

16.A. appreciated????????????? B. admired????????????? C. rejected????????????? D. offered

17.A. interesting????????????? B. embarrassing????????????? C. enjoyable????????????? D. unbelievable

18.A. pocket????????????? B. wallet????????????? C. arm????????????? D. hand

19.A. ticket????????????? B. bill????????????? C. pound????????????? D. paper

20.A. pays????????????? B. costs????????????? C. means????????????? D. gives

I began working in journalism when I was eight. It was my mother’s idea. She wanted me to “make something” of myself, and decided I had better start young if I was to have any chance of keeping up with the competition.
With my load of magazines I headed toward Belleville Avenue. The crowds were there. There were two gas stations on the corner of Belleville and Union. For several hours I made myself highly visible, making sure everyone could see me and the heavy black letters on the bag that said THE SATURDAY EVENING POST. When it was suppertime, I walked back home.
“How many did you sell, my boy?” my mother asked.
“None.”
“Where did you go?”
“The corner of Belleville and Union Avenues.”
“What did you do?”
“Stood on the corner waiting for somebody to buy a Saturday Evening Post.”
“You just stood there?”
“Didn’t sell a single one.”
“My God, Russell!”
Uncle Allen put in, “Well, I’ve decided to take the Post.” I handed him a copy and he paid me a nickel. It was the first nickel I earned.
Afterwards my mother taught me how to be a salesman. I would have to ring doorbells, address adults with self-confidence, and persuade them by saying that no one, no matter how poor, could afford to be without the Saturday Evening Post in the home.
One day, I told my mother I’d changed my mind. I didn’t want to make a success in the magazine business.
“If you think you can change your mind like this,” she replied, “you’ll become a good-for-nothing.” She insisted that, as soon as school was over, I should start ringing doorbells, selling magazines. Whenever I said no, she would scold me.
My mother and I had fought this battle almost as long as I could remember. My mother, dissatisfied with my father’s plain workman’s life, determined that I would not grow up like him and his people. But never did she expect that, forty years later, such a successful journalist as me would go back to her husband’s people for true life and love.
【小题1】Why did the boy start his job young?

When I was at University I studied very hard. But a lot of my friends did very little work. Some did just enough to pass exams. Others didn’t do quite enough. Fred Baines was one of them. He spent more time playing than working in the library.
Once at the end of the term, we had to take an important test in chemistry. The test had a hundred questions. Beside each question we had to write “True” or “False”. While I was studying in my room the night before the test, Fred was watching TV. Fred usually worried a lot the night before a test. But on that night he looked perfectly calm. Thenhe told me of his plan. “It’s very simple. There are a hundred questions and I have to get fifty correct to pass the test. I’ll just toss（掷）the coin to decide the answers. That way, I’m sure I’ll get half the questions right.”
The next day, Fred came happily into the exam room. As he sat tossing a coin for half an hour he marked down his answers. Then he left, half an hour before the rest of us.
The next day, he saw the chemistry professor in the corridor. “Oh, good,” he said to the teacher, “Have you got the result of the test?” The teacher reached into his pocket and took out a coin. He threw it into the air, caught it in his hand and looked at it.
“I’m terribly sorry, Fred,” he said, “You failed!”
【小题1】This story mainly wants to tell us          .

根据短文内容，从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中的两项为多途选项。
The first chocolate was eaten by Mayan and Aztec people in Central and South America hundreds of years ago. ___【小题1】____ the cocoa bean was used to make a chocolate drink that the people enjoyed very much. Much later, the cocoa bean was brought across to Europe and people there also came to love the taste of chocolate.
__【小题2】___ One of the items he sold was cocoa powder to make into drinks. In 1831, he opened a small factory to make cocoa powder from cocoa beans. John Cadbury believed that alcohol was an important cause of poverty and he wanted to encourage people to drink chocolate instead. A few years later a man called Joseph Fry invented a way to make chocolate bars, and so for the first time people had the chance to eat chocolate instead of only drinking it. At first, chocolate was a luxury and only the rich people could afford it. ___【小题3】___
___【小题4】___ Milk chocolate came later and this was made by adding milk of milk
powder to the chocolate. Cadbury’s introduced their first milk chocolate bar in 1879. Their most famous chocolate, Cadbury’s Milk Bar, was introduced in 1905. It has been a best seller in Britain and around the world for nearly 100 years.
The Cadbury factory is still in Birmingham and the chocolate produced there is eaten all over the world. 【小题5】