As a parent you might never guess all the ways a good imagination benefits your child. It helps a preschooler(学龄前儿童)：

Develop social skills

As children play pretend, they explore relationships between family members, friends and co­workers and learn more about how people interact. Playing doctor, they imagine how physicians care for their patients. Playing house, they learn more about how parents feel about their children. Imaginative play helps develop empathy(同情) for others. If children can imagine how it feels to be left out of a game or to lose a pet, they are better able to help those in need. They become more willing to play fair, to share, and to cooperate.

Build self­confidence

  Young children have very little control over their lives. Imagining oneself as a builder of skyscrapers(摩天大楼) or a superhero defending the planet is empowering to a child. It helps them develop confidence in their abilities and their potential.

Boost intellectual growth

  Using the imagination is the beginning of abstract thought.Children who can see a king's castle in a mound(堆) of sand or a delicious dinner in a mud pie are learning to think symbolically(象征性地). This skill is important in school where a child will have to learn that numerals symbolize groups of objects, letters symbolize sounds, and so on.

Practice language skills

Kids who play pretend with their friends do a lot of talking.This helps boost their vocabulary, improve sentence structure and promote communication skills.

Work out fears

  Playing pretend can help children work out their fears and worries. When children role­play about the big, bad monster under the bed, they gain a sense of control over him and he doesn't seem quite so big or so bad. Imaginative play also helps kids vent(发泄) confusing feelings they might have, such as anger toward a parent or compete with a new sibling(兄弟姐妹)．

To encourage your youngster's imagination, read to him every day. Books offer children the opportunity to visit other worlds and create new ones of their own.

  For generations children have enjoyed reading the story of Peter Pan because Peter takes them on fascinating adventures.Reader's Digest Young Families offers a beautiful typical Disney edition of Peter Pan, which is an iParenting Media Award winner. Click here to find out how you can get this classic story along with 2 free books-Bambi and Pinocchio.

1.What's NOT the advantage of children having a good imagination?

A．Understanding the other people's feelings and problems.

B．Expressing their feelings like anger.

C．Having a strong faith in their own abilities and potential.

D．Helping them form a good habit of reading stories.

2.What does the underlined word “Boost” mean?

A．Improve.  B．Limit.C．Push.  D．Praise.

3.From the last paragraph we can learn that ________．

A．Reader's Digest Young Families wins an iParenting Media Award

B．Disney edition of Peter Pan can be got online for free

C．the story of Peter Pan has been popular with kids

D．Bambi and Pinocchio are offered for free because of bad sales

4.What's the purpose of writing the article?

A．To tell readers the benefits of encouraging children's imagination.

B．To introduce some wonderful Disney stories to readers.

C．To provide ways of helping make kids more imaginative.

D．To persuade parents to buy the Disney edition of Peter Pan.

Children like to imagine they are someone else in a game. As a
parent you might never guess all the way a good imagination benefits
your child. It helps a preschooler：
Develop social skills
As children play pretend games, they explore relationship  
between family members, friends and co-workers and learn more about how people communicate. Playing doctor, they imagine how physicians care for their patients.  Playing house, they learn more about how parents feel about their children. Imaginative play help develop sympathy for others. If children can imagine how it feels to be left out of a game or to lose a pet, they are better able to help those in need. They become more willing to play fair, to share, and to cooperate.
Build self-confidence
Young children have very little control over their lives. Imagining oneself as builder of skyscrapers or a superhero defending the planet is inspiring to a child. It helps them develop confidence in their abilities and their potential.
Boost intellectual growth
Using the imagination is the beginning of abstract thought. Children who can see a king’s castle in a pile of sand or a delicious dinner in a mud pie are learning to think symbolically. This skill is important in school where a child will have to learn that numbers symbolize groups of objects, letters symbolize sounds, and so on.
Practice language skills
Kids who play pretend with their friends do a lot of talking. This helps increase their vocabulary, Kids who play pretend with their friends do a lot of talking.  This helps increase their vocabulary, improve sentence structures and develop communication skills.
Work out fears
Playing pretend can help children work Out their fears and worries. When children role-play about the big, bad monster under the bed, they gain a sense of control over him and he doesn’t seem quite so big or so bad. Imaginative play also helps kids vent（发泄）confusing feelings they might have, such as anger toward a parent or rivalry（较劲）with a new brother or sister.
68. Which of the following can help children develop social skills in a game?
A. Imagining being a superhero.                 B. Preparing a delicious dinner with mud.
C. Pretending to have a talk with friends.     D. Pretending to be a doctor.
69．Why can imagination build children’s self-confidence?
A．It makes them more willing to play fair.
B．It helps them gain control over themselves.
C．It helps them protect people and make much greater progress.
D．It makes them feel as if they were much more powerful than they really are.
70．Which of the following is NOT true according to the progress.
A．Playing pretend games only helps children psychologically.
B．Playing pretend games is good for children’s development.
C．While playing pretend games, children learn to get along with others.
D．Playing pretend games helps children to do well while they are in school.
71．The passage mainly tells us something about      .
A．advantages of playing outdoors
B．skills in playing pretend games
C．benefits of developing your child’s imagination
D．tips on how to improve our child’s imagination

As a parent you might never guess all the ways a good imagination benefits your child. It helps a preschooler(学龄前儿童)：

Develop social skills

As children play pretend, they explore relationships between family members, friends and co­workers and learn more about how people interact. Playing doctor, they imagine how physicians care for their patients. Playing house, they learn more about how parents feel about their children. Imaginative play helps develop empathy(同情) for others. If children can imagine how it feels to be left out of a game or to lose a pet, they are better able to help those in need. They become more willing to play fair, to share, and to cooperate.

Build self­confidence

Young children have very little control over their lives. Imagining oneself as a builder of skyscrapers(摩天大楼) or a superhero defending the planet is empowering to a child. It helps them develop confidence in their abilities and their potential.

Boost intellectual growth

Using the imagination is the beginning of abstract thought.Children who can see a king's castle in a mound(堆) of sand or a delicious dinner in a mud pie are learning to think symbolically(象征性地). This skill is important in school where a child will have to learn that numerals symbolize groups of objects, letters symbolize sounds, and so on.

Practice language skills

Kids who play pretend with their friends do a lot of talking.This helps boost their vocabulary, improve sentence structure and promote communication skills.

Work out fears

Playing pretend can help children work out their fears and worries. When children role­play about the big, bad monster under the bed, they gain a sense of control over him and he doesn't seem quite so big or so bad. Imaginative play also helps kids vent(发泄) confusing feelings they might have, such as anger toward a parent or compete with a new sibling(兄弟姐妹)．

To encourage your youngster's imagination, read to him every day. Books offer children the opportunity to visit other worlds and create new ones of their own.

For generations children have enjoyed reading the story of Peter Pan because Peter takes them on fascinating adventures.Reader's Digest Young Families offers a beautiful typical Disney edition of Peter Pan, which is an iParenting Media Award winner. Click here to find out how you can get this classic story along with 2 free books—Bambi and Pinocchio.

16．What's NOT the advantage of children having a good imagination?

A．Understanding the other people's feelings and problems.

B．Expressing their feelings like anger.

C．Having a strong faith in their own abilities and potential.

D．Helping them form a good habit of reading stories.

17．What does the underlined word “Boost” mean?

A．Improve.  B．Limit.

C．Push.  D．Praise.

18．From the last paragraph we can learn that ________．

A．Reader's Digest Young Families wins an iParenting Media Award

B．Disney edition of Peter Pan can be got online for free

C．the story of Peter Pan has been popular with kids

D．Bambi and Pinocchio are offered for free because of bad sales

19．What's the purpose of writing the article?

A．To tell readers the benefits of encouraging children's imagination.

B．To introduce some wonderful Disney stories to readers.

C．To provide ways of helping make kids more imaginative.

D．To persuade parents to buy the Disney edition of Peter Pan.

Adults think playing sports is good for children because it is fun and helps children keep in shape and even develop their social skills when they play with others. However, playing sports can have bad effects on children. It may produce feelings of poor self-esteem(自负) or aggressive（好斗的） behavior in some children. According to research on kids and sports, 20 million out of the 40 million kids who play sports in the US say they have been shouted loudly at or called names while playing sports. Thus, many children think sports are just too aggressive.

Many researchers believe adults, especially parents and coaches whom children usually admire, are the main cause of too much aggression in children's sports. They think children copy aggressive adult behavior that is then further reinforced（加强） through both good and bad feedback(回馈). Often these adults behave aggressively themselves, sending children the message that winning is everything. Children are even taught that hurting other players is acceptable, or are pushed to continue playing even when they are injured.

To solve this problem, parents and coaches should act as better examples for children and teach them better values. They should not just cheer when children win or act aggressively. Instead, they should teach children to enjoy themselves whether they win or not. It is not necessary to knock oneself out to enjoy sports. If people make some basic changes, children might learn to enjoy sports again.

1.What is the main idea of this article?

A. Playing sports can be dangerous to children's health.    

B. Playing sports may have some bad results.

C. Adults pay too much attention to winning.        

D. Children shouldn't allow themselves to do something bad in sports.

2.What does the underlined idiom "call names" mean?

A. To have a call.                   B. To give someone a sweet name.

C. To name a person after someone else.  D. To be rude to someone with bad words.

3.What is the main cause of more aggressive playing?

A. Adults.       B. Children.    C. Other players.   D. The media.

4.It can be learnt from the text that ___________.

    A. you can enjoy sports so long as you win

    B. about 50 percent of children had some bad experience while playing sports

    C. children seldom copy their parents’ aggressive behavior though respecting them

    D. children need to knock the other out to enjoy sports

Everyone knows what the NBA’s latest clipper（快马）Blake Griffin is capable of doing on the court, or at the hoop（篮筐）. After all, it’s not every day you see a basketball player jump over a car and score a slam dunk（大灌篮）. Griffin’s amazing performance won the 22-year-old the 2011 Slam Dunk Contest.

Griffin has been turning heads all season with his dunking ability. As a rookie（新秀）with the Los Angeles Clippers. Griffin is a hard worker and the team’s new hope.

There’s no doubt that Griffin is on his way to a rising NBA career. But where did it all begin?

Griffin’s has loved basketball ever since he was a kid. He grew up watching the NBA and practicing how to dunk, mastering this skill at just 13 years old.

Griffin’s passion for basketball runs in the family. His father was his coach in high school, and his older brother Taylor is also a professional player. Griffin says being a coach’s son helped him grow professionally.

“I always watched basketball with my dad and he taught me the right way to play. I kind of picked up the game through him,” he told NBA online.

Griffin started showing some serious basketball ability at his high school in Oklahoma, where he won state titles in each of his four years.  

It wasn’t long before many of Griffin’s peers were asking for his autograph. “A girl once came up to me with a rubber duck and was like, ‘Will you sign this?’ So I signed the top of it and gave it back to her,” Griffin told Sports Illustrated magazine.

After high school, Griffin went on to become a star basketball player at university. It was there that he earned the nickname “The Terminator（终结者）” for his fury（火爆）during games. Despite his fierce on-court personality, Griffin says he’s really just a normal, nice guy. “A lot of people are surprised at how laid-back（放松的）I am. I’m more soft-spoken（温和的）off the court. Out on the court, they see somebody who’s intense and all that. But I like to hang out to have fun and make jokes and laugh,” he told NBA online.

51.  From the first two paragraphs we can learn that_____.

A.       Blake Griffin has a superior ability to play basketball

B.       a basketball player jumps over a car and scores a slam dunk

C.       Blake Griffin has to work harder as a rookie

D.       it is easy for a basketball player to turn heads all season

52.  What should be the best title for the passage?

A.       Surprise of Clippers             B.      Hope of Clippers

C.       Laugh at Winners               D.     Cheers for Winners

53.  Which of the following is true according to the passage?

A.       Griffin’s performance won the 2012 Slam Dunk Contest.

B.       Griffin is on his way to a rising NBA career as a veteran(老运动员，老兵).

C.       Griffin loved practicing his dunking at the age of 22.

D.       Griffin’s passion for basketball comes from his family.

54.  What does the underlined word “peers” in the eighth paragraph mean?

A.       Lovers who are in the same school.

B.       Kids who play with each other.

C.       Persons who are the same age.

D.       Friends who help each other.

55.  What’s the author’s attitude towards Blake Griffin?

A.       Positive.                      B. Negative.

C.       Pessimistic.                   D. Critical.