“It hurts me more than you”, and “This is for your own good”—these are the statements my mother used to make years ago when I had to learn Latin, clean my room, stay home and do homework.

That was before we entered the permissive period in education in which we decided it was all right not to push our children to achieve their best in school. The schools and the educators made it easy for us. They taught that it was all right to be parents who take a let-alone policy. We stopped making our children do homework. We gave them calculators, turned on the television, left the teaching to the teachers and went on vacation.

Now teachers, faced with children who have been developing at their own pace for the past 15 years, are realizing we’ve made a terrible mistake. One such teacher is Sharon Klompus who says of her students “so passive” and wonders what has happened. Nothing is demanded of them, she believes. Television, says Klompus, contributes to children’s passivity. “We’re talking about a generation of kids who’ve never been hurt or hungry. They have learned somebody will always do it for them, instead of saying ‘go and look it up’, you tell them the answer. It takes greater energy to say no to a kid.”

Yes, it does. It takes energy and it takes work. It’s time for parents to end their vacation and come back to work. It’s time to take the car away, to turn the TV off, to tell them it hurts you more than them but it’s for their own good. It’s time to start telling them no again.  

1.We learn from the passage that the author’s mother used to lay emphasis on（强调）    .

A．his learning a foreign language

B．his ability to control behavior

C．his natural development

D．his school education

2.According to the author, “the permissive period” in Paragraph 2 means a time   .

A．when children are allowed to do what they wish to

B．when everything can be taught at school

C．when every child can be educated

D．when children are permitted to receive education

3.What is the main idea of the passage?

A．Parents should leave their kids alone

B．Kids should have more activities at school.

C．It’s time to be stricter with our kids.

D．Parents should set a good example to their kids.

阅读下面短文，根据短文内容按照每题的具体要求回答问题。（答案写在答题卡上相应番号后的横线上）

Born in 1949, Diana Nyad took an early interest in swimming as a sport and was a Florida State High School swimming champion. Like many young athletes, she had Olympic dreams, but a serious illness kept her from competing in the Games. The disappointment didn’t stop her from going forward. Instead, she became interested in marathon swimming. A brilliant athlete, she was well-conditioned for spending long periods of time in the water. As a long-distance swimmer, she would compete against herself and the obstacles presented by distance, danger, cold, and exhaustion.

For ten years Nyad devoted herself to becoming one of the world’s best long-distance swimmers. In 1970, she swam a ten-mile marathon in Lake Ontario, setting the women’s record for the course. In 1972 she set another record by swimming 102.5 miles from an island in the Bahamas to the coast of Florida. Then she broke a third record when swimming around Manhattan Island in 1975.

Nyad attempted to swim the distance between Florida and Cuba in 1978. Though the span of water is less than 100 miles wide, it is rough and dangerous. After battling the water for two days, she had to give up for the sake of her own health and safety. Even so, she impressed the world with her courage and strong desire to succeed. For Nyad her strength of purpose was just as important as reaching Cuba. That is how she defined success. It did not matter that her swim came up short; she believed she had touched the other shore.

When Nyad ended her career as a swimmer, she continued to try new things---travelling the world as a reporter, writing books and giving public speeches about her life. Diana Nyad works to inspire others, just as she did when she swam the waters of the world.

1.What prevented Nyad from taking part in the Olympic Games? (Not more than 5 words)

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2.What does the underlined word “obstacles” mean? (1 word)

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3.What achievement did Nyad make in 1970? (Not more than 10 words.)

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4.Why did Nyad believe that she had touched the other shore? (Not more than 10 words)

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5.Please explain how you are inspired by Nyad. (Not more than 20 words)

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下面短文中有10处语言错误, 每句中最多有两处。请在有错误的地方增加、删除或修改某个单词。

增加：在缺词处加一个漏字符号（∧），并在其下面写上该加的词。

删除：把多余的词用斜线（\）划掉。

修改：在错的词下划一横线，并在该词下面写上修改后的词。

注意：1.每处错误及其修改均仅限一词。

2.只允许修改10处，多者不计分。

Li Ming and Li Juan study very hardly. They do extremely well all the subjects. Li Juan decides to attend in Sichuan University while Li Ming preferred Beijing University. It makes them differ from the most students is that they don’t go to school. In fact, they have never been to school. Since kindergarten, we have studied at home. Neither of them feels they have missed anything by taught at home all the time. Like many people received home schooling in Chengdu, and they feel they are lucky.

假设你叫李华，最近你所在的城市在全省率先使用英汉双语路牌。请你根据下面的资料给你的美国网友Bruce写一封信，介绍这个变化。

要求：

1．根据以上内容写一篇短文，不要逐句翻译，可适当增加细节以使行文连贯；

2．词数100左右，开头结尾已给出，不计入总词数。

参考词汇：双语：bilingual；汉字：Chinese characters

Dear Bruce,

How is everything? In your last letter you asked about what changes have taken place in our city. Now I’ll tell you one.                                                               

Next time you are in our city, you’ll have no difficulty getting around in it.

Yours truly

Li Hua

—I’m terribly sorry that I made your clothes dirty.

—__________.

A．Never mind        B．Don’t mention it   C．That’s right       D．Sorry

_____ would be more convenient to place the toilets near the entrance to the cinema for disabled customers.

A．As               B．That              C．It                D．Which

E-mail, as well as telephones, ______ an important part in daily communication.

A．is playing          B．have played        C．are playing         D．play

Many Chinese universities provide scholarships for students _______ financial aid．

A．in favor of         B．in honor of         C．in face of          D．in need of

This problem may lead to more serious ones if ______ unsolved.

A．making           B．remained          C．keeping           D．left

_____ wants to go rafting this weekend, raise your hands, please.

A．Anyone who       B．Those who         C．Anyone           D．Who