题目内容
If they were going to kill us, this was as good a place as ________.
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While income worry is a rather common problem of the aged, loneliness is another problem that aged parents may face. Of all the reasons that explain their loneliness, a large geographical distance between parents and their children is the major one. This phenomenon(现象)is commonly known as “Empty Nest Syndrome”(空巢综合症).
In order to seek(寻找) better chances outside their countries, many young people have gone abroad, leaving their parents behind with no clear idea of when they will return home. Their parents spend countless lonely days and nights, taking care of themselves, in the hope that someday their children will come back to stay with them. The fact that most of these young people have gone to Europeanized or Americanized societies makes it unlikely that they will hold as tightly to the value of duty as they would have if they had not left their countries. Whatever the case, it has been noted that the values they hold do not necessarily match what they actually do. This geographical and cultural distance also prevents the grown-up children from providing response in time for their aged parents living by themselves.
The situation in which grown-up children live far away from their aged parents has been described as “distant parent phenomenon”, which is common both in developed countries and in developing countries. Our society has not yet been well prepared for “Empty Nest Syndrome”.
【小题1】According to the passage, the loneliness of aged parents is mainly caused by _________.
| A.their earlier experience of feeling lonely |
| B.the unfavorable living conditions in their native countries |
| C.the common worry about their income |
| D.the geographical distance between parents and children |
| A.live in the countries with more money |
| B.seek a better place for their aged parents |
| C.continue their studies abroad |
| D.realize their dreams in foreign countries |
| A.they do not hold to the value of duty at all |
| B.they can give some help to their parents back home |
| C.they cannot do what they should for their parents |
| D.they believe what they actually do is right |
| A.the situations in the developed and developing countries are different |
| B.“Empty Nest Syndrome” has arrived unexpectedly in our society |
| C.children will become independent as soon as they go abroad |
| D.the aged parents are not fully prepared for “Empty Nest Syndrome” |
The customs in different countries are rather different. If I have dinner with a Chinese host, he always puts more food onto my plate as soon as I have emptied it. That often discomforts me greatly. I have to eat the food even if I do not want to, because it is considered bad manners in the west to leave one’s food on the plate. I have also noticed that when a Chinese sits at an American’s dinner party, he often refuses the offer of drink though he’s in fact still hungry or thirsty. This might be good manners in China but it is not in the west at all. In the United States, it is impolite to keep asking someone again and again or insist on his accepting something. Americans have a direct way of speaking. If they want something, they will ask for it. If not, they will say, “No, thanks.” When an American is served with beer by the host, for example, he might say, “No, thanks. I’ll take some orange juice if you have it.” That is what an American will do. So when you go to the United States, you’d better remember the famous saying: “when in Rome, do as the Romans do.”
【小题1】From this passage we can see that the writer is .
| A.a Chinese | B.a Roman |
| C.an American | D.a European |
| A.very happy | B.sad | C.angry | D.uneasy |
| A.to refuse an offer |
| B.to ask for something directly |
| C.to eat at a dinner party |
| D.to keep asking someone to accept something |
| A.putting more food onto his plate as soon as he emptied it |
| B.refusing the offer of food or drink though he is still hungry or thirsty. |
| C.asking for things directly if he wants them |
| D.not eating all the food offered |
Kids who receive special education are, without doubt, the hardest working children in any school. When they are having difficulty learning basic literacy and number concepts, when they break rules, when they need more services, support and adult attention than their peers, then they are struggling the hardest. In psychology, we are trained to think that if we are feeling angry or confused when sitting with a patient, then we are probably feeling just what our patient is feeling. The same is true for students with disabilities. Whatever we feel when we work with them, they are probably feeling as they work with us.
If you have a disability that affects your education, then you have a brain disorder. Because education, even in mathematics, is largely verbal(用言辞), most brain disorders responsible for educational disabilities affect language, and how you process words and ideas in written and oral form. To i
magine how much effort a child with a language disability spends each school day, imagine yourself attending a school today taught in a language you had a basic understanding of. Imagine though, that while you seem fluent to others, you have trouble when people talk too fast, use idioms or expressions.
When adults and classmates blame, or criticize kids who receive special education, they are struggling with their own confusion. It is difficult to imagine the world as it is lived by someone with an educational disability. It is difficult to understand how someone who can be so "normal" can have so many problems. It is so easy to imagine that if they just tried harder... without understanding that just to do the ordinary, kids with disabilities are making an extraordinary effort.
【小题1】What is the purpose of the author by writing the passage?
| A.to introduce how hard to be a special education teacher. |
| B.to think highly of the children with disabilities. |
| C.to show the disabled have much trouble in understanding. |
| D.to call on the society to care for the disabled. |
| A.won’t work as hard as a normal. |
| B.will work double as hard as a normal. |
| C.will be as patient as the normal. |
| D.will think of his disability first. |
| A.have a hard time using the language. |
| B.be too foolish to learn maths . |
| C.not |
| D.have a lot of trouble in remembering words. |
| A.you should try to understand what he is saying. |
| B.you should imagine the world he lives in. |
| C.you should imagine yourself in his shoes. |
| D.you should think of the education he has received. |