“A very disruptive(调皮捣蛋的) six-year-old child kicked my legs and clawed at my hand,” said one teacher. “ I broke up a fight and was kicked between my legs,” said another. Many people have heard stories like this. But the situation is more worrying still and it involves parents.

Every child, regardless of the circumstances into which they are born, has the right to achieve their potential, regardless of their parents’ wealth and class. And we recognize that, as a nation, it is a long way to achieve this goal. But with rights come responsibilities and what worries people is that we are in danger of ignoring the latter.

Far too many children are behaving badly at school, even to the point of being violent to staff. This is terrible enough, but it is hard to be surprised since many children are just mirroring the behaviour of their parents.

My members tell me that parents also come into school often and threaten staff and some staff have been attacked by a pupil’s parents. One father encouraged his child to start a fight on the playground before school started. A primary teacher reported that a parent shouted at him. We need to have a serious and sensible debate about the roles and responsibilities of parents and the support that they can reasonably expect of schools and teachers.

Children will not learn how to behave as social beings if they are stuck in front of the TV for hours every day. They need their parents to show an interest in them and to spend time with them, helping them to play with their peers(同龄人) and to learn the rules of social behavior.

Children are now arriving at school socially undeveloped, increasingly unable to dress themselves, unable to use the toilet properly, unable to hold a knife and fork and unused to eating at a table, Mary Bousted, general secretary of the Association of Teachers and Lecturers, writes in today’s Observer. Instead of taking responsibility themselves, too many parents expect teachers to control their children’s behaviour and wellbeing, she adds. Bousted says one mother blamed staff when she discovered that her 16-year-old son was smoking.

We are in danger of becoming a nation of families living separate lives under one roof. The bedroom, once a place to sleep, has become the living space for the young. Spending hours in front of computer screens, on social networking sites or being immersed(沉迷于) in computer games, children and young people spend little time with their parents. Parents are unable to monitor just what their children are watching.

Schools cannot right the wrongs of society and teachers cannot become substitute parents. Both parties need to work together. Parents must be helped and given confidence to take back control. They are responsible for setting boundaries for their children's behaviour and sticking to those boundaries. They are responsible for setting a good example to their children and for devoting that most precious of resources — time — so that children come to school ready and willing to learn.

1.In the opinion of the writer, what problem do people ignore?

A. The violence in the school

B. The study pressure of students.

C. The responsibilities of the students

D. The right to achieve students’ potential.

2.The underlined part in Paragraph 7 means _____.

A. parents care little about children’s life at home

B. parents and children live in their separate rooms

C. children don’t live with their parents in the same house

D. children live a different life from that of parents at home

3.The author’s attitude to the behaviour of parents may be ______.

A. dissatisfied          B. indifferent

C. understanding   D. tolerant

4.From the last paragraph, we can infer that ______.

A. teachers have no responsibility for playing the role of parents

B. schools can’t correct the wrongs that society does to teachers

C. students are responsible for making themselves known in society

D. parents should spend time with children to make them ready to learn

根据所给的中文或首字母提示，按照句子的要求填写适当的词，每空一词。

1.After the match ,the judge _______ （宣布）that our team won the title.

2.He thought it is his duty to help ordinary people _______(暴露) to the disease.

3.His first speech as president made a strong _______（印象）on his audience.

4. In the crash he suffered severe _________（伤） to the head and arms.

5.We must ________ （致力于）our efforts on improving education.

6.You task will be to examine the _______（可能）of constructing a new factory in China.

7.Animals in zoos are not in their natural s_________.（环境）

8.He had a badly s_______ （肿胀）ankle after falling down from the stairs.

9.My brother a______ （获得）a knowledge of computers by carful study.

10.I’m d______ （高兴）to hear of your success.

完成句子

1.他的儿子在沉迷于电脑游戏前是一个好学生。

His son was a good student before he                             computer games.

2.让我们仔细考虑并且作出行动的决定。

Let’s think it over and                       a plan for action.

3.尽管这些困难，你会赢得这场比赛的。

                         these difficulties,I know you will win the game.

4.他们的钱快要用完了。

They                                     their money.

5.她特别强调了那一点。

She stressed the point                       .

6.这个想法吸引了所有的人。

The idea                     all the people.

7.我试图打开这扇门，但最终还是失败了。

I                     open the door, but I failed at last.

8.我的长寿要归功于我的健康生活。

My long and active life must be                   the healthy life I live.

May was born with a cleft palate(腭裂). When she was a little girl, she had to  36 the jikes from naughty chidren who teased her about her misshaped lip. With all the teasing, Mary grew up  37  the fact that she was“diffrernt”. She was  38  that no one, outside her family,could ever love her until she  39  Mrs. Leonard's class.

In Mrs. Leonards' school at that time, it was   40  for teachers to give their children an annual  41  test. However, in Mary's case,  42  her cleft palate, she was hardly able to hear out of one ear.   43 not to let the other children have another“  44 "to point out, she would  45  when her bad ear was tested each year. The “hearing test”was  46 by having a child walk to the classroom door,turn sideways,  47  one ear with a fingre, and then   48  what the teacher whispered. When Mary had to turn her bad ear towards her teacher she would  49  to cover her good ear. She knew that teachers   50  often say things like,“The sky is blue,”or“What color are your shoes?”But not on that day. Surely, God   51  seven words in 

Mrs. Leonard's mouth that   52  Mary's life forever. When the test came, Mary heard:“ I wish you were my little girl.”You can imagine how deeply these words   53  Mary.

Yes, affirming (肯定）words are   54  to say to the people around you. While words from

a godly teacher can soften a heart, words form you can powerfully set the    55   of  another

One's life.

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完成下列句子15%

1  Jack昨晚本该在家学习，他们今天要考试。

Jack___________ __________ studied at home last night, for we are _________ ____________ _____________today.

2.Mr White 一生致力于研究地震。

Mr White _____________all his life __________ studying earthquake.

3.那时其他学者对他的理论评价不高。

The other scholars ___________  _________ _______ his theory at that time.

4.她一旦下定决心，她一定会按日程表完成任务。

___________ she has _________ _________ __________ ___________,she will finish her task ____________ ____________.

5.Mary 很害羞，以至跟陌生人交流有困难。

Mary is __________shy _______ she ________ __________ ___________ communciating with strangers.

6.我是上周在图书馆碰巧遇到他.

It ________ in the garden ________I___________　________  to meet him

 in the library last week.

7. 我们要充分利用时间学习。

We must _______   _________  ________     _______to study.