¡¡¡¡It is difficult for parents of nearly every family to teach their children to be responsible for housework, but with one of the following suggestions, you really can get your children to help at home£®
¡¡¡¡If you give your children the impression that they can never do anything quite right, then they will regard themselves as unfit or unable persons£®Unless children believe they can succeed, they will never become totally independent£®
¡¡¡¡My daughter Carla's fifth-grade teacher made every child in her class feel special£®When students received less than a prefect test score, she would point out what they had mastered and declared firmly they could learn what they had missed£®
¡¡¡¡You can use the same technique when you evaluate(ÆÀ¼Û)your child's work at home£®Don't always scold and give lots of praise instead£®Talk about what he has done right, not about what he hasn't done£®If your child completes a difficult task, promise him a Sunday trip or a ball game with Dad£®
¡¡¡¡Learning is a process of trying and failing and trying and succeeding£®If you teach your children not to fear a mistake or failure, they will learn faster and achieve success at last£®
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The whole passage deals with ________£®
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social education
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school education
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family education
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pre-school education
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The author thinks that ________£®
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there is no way to get children to help at home
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the more encouragement you give, the more responsible and helpful children will be
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it is very difficult to make children responsible for housework
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children can be forced to help with housework
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The article gives us a good suggestion about how to evaluate(ÆÀ¼Û)your child's work at home£®That is to ________£®
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praise his success
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promise him a trip
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give him a punishment
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promise him a ball game
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The author advises readers to ________£®
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learn from himself, for he has a good way of teaching
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take pride in Carla's fifth-grade teacher
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do as what Carla's teacher did in educating children
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follow Carla's example because she never fails in the test
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Having read the last paragraph, we can conclude that ________£®
¡¡¡¡Judging from recent surveys, most experts in sleep behavior agree that there is virtually an epidemic(Á÷Ðв¡)of sleepiness in the nation£®¡°I can¡¯t think of a single study that hasn¡¯t found Americans getting less sleep than they ought to,¡± says Dr David£®Even people who think they are sleeping enough would probably be better off with more rest£®
¡¡¡¡The beginning of our sleep-deficit crisis can be traced back to the invention of the light bulb a century age£®From diary entries and our personal accounts from the 18th and 19th centuries, sleep scientists have reached the conclusion that the average person used to sleep about 9£®5 hours a night£®¡°The best sleep habits once were forced on us, when we had nothing to do in the evening down on the farm, and it was dark£®¡± By the 1950s and 1960s, the sleep schedule had been reduced dramatically, to between 7.5 and 8 hours, and most people had to wake to an alarm clock£®¡°People cheat in their sleep, and they don¡¯t even realize they¡¯re doing it,¡± says Dr David£®¡°They think they¡¯re okay because they can get by on 6.5 hours, when they really need 7.5, 8 or even more to feel ideally energetic£®¡±
¡¡¡¡Perhaps the most merciless robber of sleep, researchers say, is the complexity of the day£®Whenever pressures from work, family, friends and community increase, many people consider sleep the least expensive item on their programme£®¡°In our society, you¡¯re considered dynamic if you say you need only 5.5 hours¡¯ sleep£®If you¡¯ve got to get 8.5 hours, people think you lack drive and ambition£®¡±
¡¡¡¡To determine the consequences of sleep-deficit, researchers have put subjects through a set of psychological and performance tests requiring them, for instance, to add columns of numbers or recall a passage read to them only minutes earlier£®¡°We¡¯ve found that if you¡¯re in sleep-deficit, performance suffers,¡± says Dr David£®¡°Short-term memory is weakened, as are abilities to make decisions and to concentrate£®¡±
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What is the main topic of the passage?
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Research on the causes and consequences of sleep-deficit£®
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The epidemic of sleepiness in the modern times£®
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The history of people¡¯s sleeping patterns£®
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The minimum of our sleeping hours£®
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Which of the following is Di David¡¯s opinion?
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People who think they are sleeping enough are better off than those who don¡¯t£®
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Some people can remain energetic with only 6.5 hours¡¯ sleep a night£®
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If they get 8.5 hours¡¯ sleep, people will be full of drive and ambition£®
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People¡¯s mental power suffers if they are lacking in sleep£®
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People in the 18th and 19th centuries slept about 9.5 hours a night because __________£®
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they were forced by their parents to do so
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they knew what was best for their health
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they had no electricity
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they were not so dynamic and ambitious as modern people are
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The major cause of sleep-deficit of modern people is __________£®
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the endless TV programmes in the evenings and the Internet
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the pressures of the day
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the sufficient energy modern people usually have
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loud noises in modern cities
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What does the word ¡°subjects¡± in the last paragraph mean?
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Persons or things being discussed or described£®
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Branched of knowledge studied in a school£®
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Persons or things being treated in a certain way or being experimented on£®
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Any member of a state apart from the supreme ruler£®
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¡¡¡¡Today we will talk about expressions with ¡°apple¡±£®¡°Apple pie order¡± means very well organized£®Nobody is sure when and where this expression began£®It is said that the women of New England loved to have everything in its place, especially when they were making apple pie£®
¡¡¡¡Another expression ¡°apple of discord¡± describes the opposite condition£®The ancient story says that all the gods and goddesses were celebrating a marriage when Discord, one of the gods, threw a golden apple on the table which was to be given as a prize to the most beautiful goddess£®How could they choose among Juno, Minerva and Venus? When Paris decided to give the golden apple to Venus, Juno and Minerva were very angry and threatened(Íþв)him£®This began the long Trojan War£®
¡¡¡¡Calling a tomato ¡°a love apple¡± was a mistake£®In the sixteenth century, Spain imported the tomato from South America to Morocco, and then Italian businessmen took it to Italy£®The Italian name for the tomato was pomo di Moro£apple of the Moors(»ÄÒ°)£®When French growers imported it from Italy, they thought di Moro meant d¡¯amour, the French word for love£®And so pomo di Moro became the apple of love£®
¡¡¡¡People believe many things about the apple£®One belief is that it has great powers of keeping people healthy£®¡°An apple a day keeps the doctor away£®¡± Another belief is based on fact£®¡°One rotten apple spoils the barrel£®¡± The expression has come to mean that one bad person in a group can cause everyone to act badly£®
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Which of the following expressions means badly organized?
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Apple pie order£®
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Apple of discord£®
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An apple a day keeps the doctor away£®
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One rotten apple spoils the barrel£®
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Which of the following statements is WRONG?
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Discord is the name of a god£®
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Di Moro means love in Italian£®
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¡°Apple pie order¡± means very well organized£®
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Many people believe apples can keep them healthy£®
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We can most probably hear this passage in a radio program about _________£®