题目内容
His repeated _______________(缺席) from school made him fail in the exam.
absence
In early autumn I applied for applied for admission to college. I wanted to go nowhere but to Cornell University,but my mother fought strongly againsnst it. When she saw me studying a photograph of my father on the sports ground of Cornell,she tore it up.
“You can’t say it’s not a great university,just because Papa went there.”
“That’s not it at all.And it is a top university.”She was still holding the pieces in her hand. “But we can’t afford to send you to college.”
“I wouldn’t dream of asking you for money.Do you want me to get a job to help suppont you and Papa?Things aren’t that bad,are they?”
“No,”she said. “I don’t expect you to help support us.”
Father borrowed money form his rich cousins to start a small jewellery shop,His chief customers were his old college friends.To get new customers,my mother had to help.She picked up a long-forgotten membership in the local league of women,so that she cound get to know more people. Whether those people would turn into customers was another question. I knew that my Parents had to wait for quite a long time before their small investment (投资) could show returns.What’s more ,they had not wanted enough to be roch and successful ;otherwise they cound not possibly have managed their lives so badly.
I was torn between the desave to help them and change,their lives,and the determinstion not to repeat their mistakes.I had a strong belief in my power to go what I wanted.After months of hard study I won a full college scholarship(奖学金).My father could hardly contain his pride in me,and my mother eventually gave in before my success.
【小题1】The author was not allowed to go to Cornell University mainly because
| A.his father grduated from the university |
| B.his mother did not thinks it a great university |
| C.his parents needed him to help support the family |
| D.his parents did not have enough money for him |
| A.a local league | B.his university |
| C.his relatives | D.his college friends |
| A.To help with her husband’s business | B.To raise money for her son |
| C.To meet her long-forgotten friends | D.To better manage her life |
A. To improve relations with his mother
B. To go to his dream university
C. To carry on with his father’s business
Remind children that bad things don’t last. It may sound simple, but the message is extremely important. “Children often don’t have the experience to know that when something bad happens---they lose an important game or their best friend lets them down---it’s not the end of the world,” explains Nancy Leffert, a senior research scientist with the Research Institute, an American adolescents(青少年) and children’s research group. “They think their bad feelings will last for ever, or that one failure will ruin everything.”
Unfortunately, that kind of thinking discourages motivation(动机). “If a child believes that the cause of her upset is lasting, or that nothing she does will make a difference, it decreases her ability to keep on trying.” says Dorothy Rich, president of the MegaSkills Education Center of the Home and School Institute, based in Washington. Any time you can help your child see that a situation is not lasting, that a result can be changed, or that one opinion does not reflect reality, you give her reason to hope.
Case in point: “When my daughter Kathy was eight, art was one of her favorite subjects,” says Beth, a mother of two. “Then she got an art teacher who gave a great deal of praise to one student and barely noticed the rest. Kathy was ready to give up until I explained to her, “Never stop doing your best just because one person doesn’t give you praise.” Beth had to repeat the advice often, and finally her daughter got the message. “Kathy is 12 now, and art is still one of her strongest subjects.”
【小题1】According to the passage we know many children__________.
| A.know how to face a failure |
| B.try their best |
| C.don’t want to stay in bad feelings for ever |
| D.tend to take a failure as the end of the world |
| A.She is concerned about children’s attitudes towards failure. |
| B.She is the president of the Education Center. |
| C.She strongly believes that bad things won’t last long. |
| D.She is the director of the Research Institute. |
| A.“If you call your friend and apologize, he won’t stay mad at you.” |
| B.“Go ahead. Don’t care what other people think.” |
| C.“You have lost today, but you can try again tomorrow.” |
| D.“That may be what your teacher thinks, but I see it differently.” |
| A.Help Children Promote Problem Solving Ability |
| B.Tell Children Not to Let Failure Ruin Them |
| C.Set Reasonable Hopes for Your Children |
| D.Teach Your Children to Be Happy |