题目内容
All children like to play___(在户外) instead of staying indoors when the weather is fine.
outdoors
“Linda, if beating yourself up were an Olympic sport, you’d win a gold medal!”
Annabel, my close friend, stunned(使…震惊)me with that frank observation after I told her how I had mishandled a situation with a student in a third-grade class where I was substituting(代替). “I should never have let him go to the boy’s room without a pass! It was my fault he got into trouble with the hall monitor! I’m so stupid!”
My friend burst out laughing, and then made her “Olympic” comment. After a brief period of reflection I had to admit that she was right. I did put myself down an awful lot. Why, just during the previous day I had called myself “a slob” for having some papers spread out on my desk, “ugly” when I left the house without makeup and “an idiot” when I left the house for an emergency substitute job without my emergency lesson plan.
In a more reflective tone, Annabel said, “I once took a workshop at church where the woman in charge had us list all the mean things we say about ourselves.”
“How many did you have on your list?” I asked.
“Fifteen,” she confessed. “But then the teacher said, ‘Now turn to the person next to you and say all the items on your list as if you were speaking to that person!’ ”
My jaw dropped,“What did you do?”
“Nothing. Nobody did. We all just sat there, until I said, ‘I could never say these things to anyone else!’ ”
“And our teacher replied, ‘Well, if you can’t say them to anyone else, then don’t ever say them to yourself!’ ”
My friend had a point. I would never insult a child of God---and I’m God’s child, too!
God, today let me be as kind to myself as I would be to another of Your children.
【小题1】What does Annabel mean by the first sentence of the passage?
| A.The writer is a good athlete. |
| B.The writer scolds herself too much. |
| C.She is encouraging the writer |
| D.A gold medal is not a big deal. |
| A.She has low self-esteem over some small things. |
| B.She often makes serious mistakes in daily life. |
| C.She is a third-grade teacher. |
| D.She cares too much about her appearance. |
| A.something untidy | B.someone dangerous | C.something dirty | D.someone lazy |
| A.She used to put herself down a lot. |
| B.She often goes to church. |
| C.She was in charge of a workshop. |
| D.She used to be too shy to talk to others. |
| A.She is ready to turn to God for help. |
| B.She will be kind to all children. |
| C.She won’t insult(侮辱) herself as well as others. |
| D.She is willing to be a child of God. |
Almost two-thirds of children want their parents to spend more time reading to them before bed, and most prefer Mum’s storytelling to Dad’s, researchers said.
They carried out a study that showed younger children aged 3-4 were most hungry for more stories, with over three-quarters saying they wished their parents read to them more often.
More than half of all children aged 3-8 said story time was their favourite pastime with their parents.
"The results of our research confirm the traditional activity of storytelling continues to be a powerful learning and emotional resource in children's lives," said child psychologist Richard Woolfson.
Storytelling ranked higher than television or video games among pastimes for kids, and 82 percent said reading a story with their parents helped them sleep better, according the survey of 500 children aged 3-8 in Britain.
The best storytellers were mothers who used funny voices to illustrate different characters or made their own special sound effects to keep the story moving, researchers said.
When mum and dad are not at hand, celebrities(名人) will do: over 30 percent of children said they would like to hear a bedtime story from Harry Potter star Daniel Radcliffe, with teen idols(偶像) Zac Efron, Miley Cyrus and Emma Watson.
"It can be very difficult for parents to find the time to read with their children, but these moments can help build strong relations and play a vital part in their child's development," said Woolfson.
【小题1】The underlined word “pastime” in the passage most probably means .
| A.old time | B.entertainment | C.emotion | D.character |
| A.pointing out similarities and differences | B.following the natural time order |
| C.comparing opinions from different fields | D.providing examples and statistics |
| A.grow stronger | B.become more emotional | C.sleep better | D.become more powerful |