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One night I decided to spend some time building a happier and closer relationship with my daughter. For several weeks she had been  16  me to play chess(棋) with her, so I suggested a game and she eagerly ___17__. It was a school night, however, and at nine o’clock my daughter asked if I could __18__ my moves, because she 19___ to go to bed; she had to get up at six in the morning. I ___20  she had strict sleeping habits,  21  I thought she ought to be able to  22  some of this strictness. I said to her, “  23  , you can stay up late for once. We’re having   24  .” We played on for another fifteen minutes, during which time she looked   25  . Finally she said, “Please, Daddy, do it quickly.” “No,” I replied. “If you’re going to play it  26  , you’re going to play it slowly.” And so we   27   for another ten minutes, until __28  my daughter burst into tears, and  29  that she was beaten.

Clearly I had made  30  . I had started the evening wanting to have a  31  time with my daughter but had 32  my desire to win to become more  33  than my relationship with my daughter. When I was a child, my desire to win  34   me well. As a parent, I  35  that it got in my way. So I had to change.

A. guiding         B. asking          C. training         D. advising

A. allowed         B. expected        C. replied          D. accepted

A. change          B. repeat          C. hurry           D. pass

A. agreed          B. needed          C. begged           D. hated

A. knew          B. learned          C. guessed           D.heard

A. so              B. for             C. but            D. or

A. put up           B. take up          C. pick up        D. give up

A. As usual         B. Go ahead         C. By the way     D. Come on

A. patience         B. luck             C. fun            D. success

A. excited          B. proud            C. anxious         D. angry

A. well            B. again             C. fairly          D. regularly

A. discussed        B. continued         C. counted        D. argued

A. nervously        B. immediately       C. strangely       D. suddenly

A. promised        B. admitted           C. wondered      D. discovered

A. a mistake        B. a decision          C. an attempt     D. an effort

A. free            B. different           C. full           D. happy

A. managed        B. recognized         C. allowed       D. reduced

A. important     B. attractive      C. practical      D. interesting

A. offered          B. served           C. controlled       D. taught

A. realized         B. apologized        C. imagined       D. explained

Parents are a child’s first teachers. But some parents never learned from good examples. In New York City, a nonprofit agency called Covenant House tries to help homeless young mothers become good parents.

The twelve or so teenagers who live at the shelter attend parenting classes four days a week. The class is called Mommy and Me. Teacher Delores Clemens is a mother of five and a grandmother. She teaches basic skills, like how to give a baby a bath and how to dress a baby depending on the season.

She remembers one student who learned from her mother not to pick up a crying baby. The mother said that would only make the child needy and overly demanding. Delores Clemens says, “that's not true. You have to hold your baby! He is crying for a reason. If you never pick him up, he's going to keep crying. Pick your baby up. Cuddle your baby. Hug him! And she started to do that. They just want a little cuddling and a little love. And it works!”

Delores Clemens says her students also learn how to be good mothers by letting themselves be mothered. Around three hundred fifty teenage mothers graduate from Covenant House's Mommy and Me class every year.

In class, with her baby son is Natasha. She lived on the streets. She is glad not only for the warmth and shelter of Covenant House. As she told reporter Adam Phillips, she is also glad for the help they offer in seeking a more secure life.

The World Health Organization says the United States has forty-one births for every one thousand girls age fifteen to nineteen. That is higher than other developed countries, as well as some developing ones. By comparison, northern neighbor Canada has fourteen births and southern neighbor Mexico has eighty-two.

1.What is the text mainly about?

A.Parents who are a child’s first teachers.

B.A class where teens learn mothering and are mothered.

C.A nonprofit agency that offers a more secure life.

D.A kind teacher who help homeless young mothers.

2.Covenant Houses’ Mommy and Me class is intended to _____.

A.help homeless young mothers become good parents

B.provide homeless young mothers with a warm shelter

C.help mothers in New York be good parents

D.teach some parents how to love their children

3.What can we know about Delores Clemens from the text?

A.She has a mother of five and a grandmother.

B.She thinks a crying baby should be picked up and hugged.

C.She teaches advanced skills on how to be good mothers.

D.She is very glad for the warmth and shelter of Covenant House.

4.According to the World Health Organization, which country has the highest births for girls age fifteen to nineteen?

A.Canada           B.the United States of America               C.Mexico    D.Britain

 

I was fifteen months old, a happy kid until the day I fell. It was a    31   fall. I landed on a glass rabbit which cut my eye badly enough to make it blind. Trying to save the eye, the doctors stitched(缝合) the eyeball together where it was    32  , leaving a big ugly scar(疤痕) in the middle of my eye. The attempt    33  , but my mother, in all of her wisdom, found another doctor who knew that if the eye were removed    34  , my face would grow up badly distorted(扭曲),   35   my scarred, sightless, cloudy and gray eye lived on with me. As I grew, this sightless eye in so many ways    36   me.

I walked with my face looking at the    37   so that people would not see the    38   me. Yet my mother would say to me, at every turn, “Hold your head up high and    39   the world. If you hold your head up high, it will be OK, and people will see your    40   soul.” She continued this    41   whenever I was trying to hide.

Mama’s words were of great help for me to face the world    42  . As a teenager, even though I tended to look down to hide my shame, I found that sometimes when I held my head up high and let people know me, they    43   me. In high school, I was    44   both academically and socially. I was    45   elected class president. My mother’s words helped me begin to realize that by letting people look at my face, I let them    46   the intelligence and beauty behind both eyes, even if they couldn’t see it on the    47  .

Now I’m a happy wife and great mother. The message “Hold your head up high,” has been

   48   many times in my   49   home. Each of my children has felt    50   invitation, and the gift my mother gave me has lived on in another generation.

1.                A.surprising       B.sudden         C.big D.bad

 

2.                A.separated       B.destroyed       C.cut D.hurt

 

3.                A.failed          B.tried           C.succeeded    D.managed

 

4.                A.quickly         B.entirely         C.carefully  D.slowly

 

5.                A.then           B.if              C.still D.so

 

6.                A.protected       B.affected        C.stopped  D.interrupted

 

7.                A.floor           B.world          C.front     D.people

 

8.                A.shy            B.eldly           C.ugly D.strange

 

9.                A.deal with        B.see            C.laugh at   D.face

 

10.               A.different       B.beautiful        C.lonely     D.honest

 

11.               A.sentence       B.passage         C.opinion    D.message

 

12.               A.bravely         B.proudly         C.simply     D.fairly

 

13.               A.disliked         B.liked           C.hated D.noticed

 

14.               A.comfortable     B.valuable        C.successful D.special

 

15.               A.nearly          B.even           C.hardly     D.still

 

16.               A.touch          B.observe        C.watch     D.recognize

 

17.               A.surface         B.outing          C.head D.scar

 

18.               A.discussed       B.heard          C.talked     D.written

 

19.               A.brave          B.peaceful        C.sweet     D.exciting

 

20.               A.their           B.my            C.its    D.her

 

 

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