Children should be allowed to get angry. I remember many years ago, when I was visiting my sister in Australia, and I told my oldest son that he wasn’t allowed to do something he really wanted to do. He thought about it for a minute and said, “Mom, I’m very angry with you.” I replied, “That’s OK, darling, it’s what you do with your anger.” I then asked him if he wanted to talk to me about it but he was too angry to talk to me. Then he stormed off(愤然离开).

My sister looked at me surprisingly. Now she has a son the same age as mine and she said angrily, “How can you allow your child to be angry with you? If my son learns that from you, I will never forgive you.”

Then it was hard for me to stay with her, I ended up leaving earlier. Why shouldn’t my son have the right(权利) to tell me when I have made him angry? If he can’t tell me then how can he tell others in his life?

Children need to be able to express how they feel. We need to teach them ways to do this in a right way instead of saying nothing. I want them to tell me. Bottling up anger is not healthy for anyone and usually makes things worse.

1.What should children be allowed to do according to the passage?

A. Fight. B. Get angry.

C. Drink wine. D. be rude to their parents.

2.How did the writer’s sister feel when she saw the son was angry with his mother?

A. Happy. B. Sad. C. Pleased. D. Surprised.

3.Why did the writer end up leaving earlier when visiting her sister?

A. Because her sister was angry with her and she felt it hard to stay there.

B. Because she had a meeting later.

C. Because her son was angry with her and left.

D. Because her sister asked her to leave.

4.The underlined words “Bottling up” means __________ in Chinese.

A.瓶子 B.装满瓶子

C.强忍着不说 D.打碎瓶子

5.What’s TRUE according to the passage?

A. Children can’t be angry with their parents.

B. Children shouldn’t be able to express how they feel.

C. Bottling up anger is not healthy for anyone.

D. We shouldn’t allow students to be angry with us.

So many of us expect everything we do to be successful. We look forward to success to show us our value or to be the top of the group wherever we are. How many times in our schooling did we hope for a high mark? We want it and then feel like a failure when we don’t achieve what we want. Even when we succeed we still pass that and go onto the next success and then the next. We are not often taught how to face failures.

For me, failure taught me more than success did. Success is of the moment and temporary(暂时的)but failure means we have ever done. It makes me stop and think. It opened my eyes and brain to different possibilities. Failure is just a choice in redoing not in giving up. Experiencing failure,I looked deeper and further.

I have a grandson who plays hockey(曲棍球) and as all players do,he went through a slump. So I saw he was unhappy with himself. Then I said to him, “Why don’t you think of it differently rather than being unhappy?” And I asked, “Scoring is your goal, right?” He answered,“Of course.” “Why aren’t you scoring now? Do you need a readjustment(重新调整)?”All of a sudden he calmed down--he was thinking of what I had just said. So in the next game I saw him trying different things to do better. Later he started scoring. Now when something is wrong, he takes the time to think it over rather than just keeping the “failure” mode(方式).

Look at failure differently. Failure is what gives us power to try a different way of doing things.

It teaches us to rethink, redo, and then success will come about. Don’t give up but learn to use a different way.

1.According to the author,when we succeed we .

A. are quite proud

B. are usually wild with joy

C. usually set up a higher goal

D. usually think of our failure over and over

2.According to the author,failure .

A. is the thing that troubles people

B. is of the short term or temporary

C. makes us learn more than success does

D. can make him unhappy from time to time

3.What does the underlined word “slump” in Paragraph 3 mean?

A. Course of winning the game.

B. Chance of being well-known.

C. Situation where one works hard.

D. Time of losing heart or being upset.

4.Why did the author’s grandson do better in playing hockey in the end?

A. He grew up and learned more skills.

B. He thought and tried in a different way.

C. He used the skill his grandma taught him.

D. He didn’t make a change and kept the “failure” mode.

5.Which is the best title for the text?

A. Expect Success. B. Face Failures Differently.

C. My Grandson and I. D. Keep Failure Mode.

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