Encouraging Positive Relationships

Choosing one’s friends is an important part of growing up. And although you can’t choose your children’s friends, you can have a positive influence on the relationships they make throughout their formative years. Use the following strategies to help your children to build positive relationships with their friends.

● Encourage diversity.   1.   In addition to exposing your kids to more diversity, it will also help them learn more about themselves.

● Avoid criticism. Avoid criticizing friendships, but be honest with your kids when you’re concerned.   2.   This may make them defensive and less receptive to what you have to say. Do be open and willing to listen to what they have to say, and talk about what makes you nervous.

●  3.   If you feel that one of your child’s friends is having a negative influence on him, invite that friend to spend time with you and your child together so that you can have a positive influence on the relationship.

● Engage in community service. Engage your family in service and volunteering (or join a social group) through a local church, school, or other nonprofit organization.   4. 

●  5.   When talking about a friend who has a negative influence on your child, focus your comments on that friend’s behaviors, not on her personality. For example, instead of calling your child’s friend irresponsible for smoking, you could point out that the behavior has a negative effect on her health and recommend ways for your child to help her quit.

A. Offer advice.

B. Get involved.

C. Don’t condemn your child’s friends.

D. Help your kids find the group that they fit with.

E. These events can be great places to meet new friends.

F. It’s important to develop positive relationships with family members as well.

G. Challenge your children to get to know kids from many different backgrounds.

请对下面的短文进行修改。文中共有10处语言错误，每句中最多有两处。每处错误仅涉及一个单词的增加，删除或修改。

增加：在缺词处加一个漏字符号(∧)，并在其下面写出该加的词。

删除：把多余的词用斜线(＼)划掉。

修改：在错的词下画一横线，并在该词下面写出修改后的词。

注意：1.每处错误及其修改均仅限一词。

2.只允许修改10处，多者（从第11处起）不计分。

Today is Sunday. The sky is full of sunshine, so does my life. At about 9:00 a.m., I go to the bookstore with

my friends. There was a lot of new books. I didn’t know what one to buy because these books were all useful to me. At 10:00, we went to cinema. The film was called The Earthquake of Tangshan but some people were waiting outside the booking office. It took us about two hours to see it. Having been seen the film, everyone was deeply moving. Some of my friends even burst into tear. That’s a really wonderful film. It is very worth seeing.

What a happy day! I hope tomorrow I will be even happier.

目前高中学生出国留学(study abroad)是一个普遍的社会现象。假定你是某中学的学生李华，你的美国朋友Jim想要了解人们对此现象的看法。请你根据下面的要点提示，用英语给他写一封信，告诉他人们的不同看法，并谈谈你自己的观点。要点：

1.赞同（学好英语、旅游、独立……）

2.反对（沟通困难、自理能力差、孤独……）

3.你的观点……

注意：1.词数100左右；

2.可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯；

3.开头语已为你写好，不计入总词数。

Dear Jim,

I am glad that you have an interest in this phenomenon. With more and more high school students choosing

to study abroad, people’s views on the trend are divided.

Best regards,

Li Hua

. — I’m going to attend a job interview. Would you like to tell me something about your experience?

— ______. Let me tell after class.

A. That’s all right                           B. Of course                         C. Go ahead                         D. It just depends

 After _______ wolf-like animal was shot dead in Zoucheng, Shandong province, a villager reported he had lost ______ husky dog he had raised at home.

A. the; a                                         B. a; the                                C. the; the                            D. a; a

Nature is at its most beautiful in spring ______ all kinds of flowers are in blossom, ______ attracts people from all walks of life to take a spring outing.

A. that; which                               B. which; where                  C. when; that                       D. when; which

If it were not for the fact that Anne _______ ill, I would invite her to answer my question now.

A. was                                                      B. were                                 C. is                                        D. be

After about one hour of the play between China and Korea, the ______ was 3-2 in our ______.

A. score; favour                                     B. score; side                       C. point; favour                   D. point; side

The phrase "Made in China" has become ______ the same meaning for getting what you need on the cheap.

A. somewhat                                 B. somehow                         C. anyhow                            D. anyway

Eating is so important to Chinese ______ we have the term "food culture". But recent reports have the         public worried about ______ is on their tables.

A. what; that                                 B. which; that                      C. that; which                      D. that; what