You are too tired. ________ have a rest?

1. A.
   Why not you
2. B.
   Why
3. C.
   Why don't you
4. D.
   Why don't

"Mummy, I don't know what to play with." Steve stops his mother, who is talking to a friend, for the fourth time. “You've got a room full of toys!" his mother says, impatiently. In fact it is the jumble of toys which is to blame for four-year-old Steve's having no interest in his dolls, cars and animals. Each morning he pours three washing baskets of toys all over his floor, pulls out something and shortly after that, he is standing at his mother's desk or following her into the kitchen saying, "Mummy, I am bored."

A family therapist(心理医生) explains why children lose interest when they have a whole “toy shop” at home. “According to their brain development, little children are not in a position to judge the quality of different kinds of things at once. There is always just one favorite toy for the moment. All the rest are left lying about." What can parents do to stop their children from being oversupplied with toys? Simply make something disappear without the child's knowledge. If he/she takes no more notice of a toy, a parent can ask if it can be stored or given away. Of course the child will always say he/she wants it then!

Lyn is the mother of four-year-old Jessie, and we like her way. A small set of shelves in her child's room holds the toys and books that are the new favourites. When it seems to her that her daughter is tired of these toys, they put them away in a box together and select some other toys from a cupboard in another room. The box of “old” toys goes into the cupboard. When her child says she is "bored", they also get something from her cupboard -- it may be something she has had for some time but because she hasn’t seen it for a while it is almost like a new toy.

Some favourite toys stay out all the time, and there is a collection of dolls which sits in the comer, but in this way Lyn has found that she has fewer toys to put away at the end of the day and her daughter always has something “fresh” to play with.

57. Steve stops his mother several times because______.

　 A. he felt uninterested in his toys　　　　　 B. he disliked his mother's friend

　 C. he didn't have enough toys to play with D. he hoped his mother would play with him

58. According to the therapist, children often say they have nothing to play with because______.

　 A. they can't play alone for a long time

　 B. they are too young to play with so many toys

　 C. they are too lazy to pick out their favourites

　 D. they don't have the ability to value too many things at a time

59. What does the underlined word "jumble" mean in Chinese?

　 A. 单一的选择　 B．杂乱的一堆　 C．普通的外观　 D．相同的形状

60. Which is the advice given to parents in the text?

　 A. Buy fewer toys for their children.

　 B. Form good habits for their children.

　 C. Put some toys away without telling their children.

　 D. Spare some time to play with their children.

Mr. White works in an office. He is very  1   and has no time to have a good rest. Every evening, when he comes back   2    his office, he’s always tired and wants to go to bed early.   3     his wife often has a lot of interesting things to tell him after supper. She doesn’t stop talking until he falls    4    . But it’s usually too late and Mr. White has to    5     early in the morning when she is asleep.

One day the man    6    terrible and couldn’t（不能）go to work. He decided to go to    7    . And Mrs. White went with him. Before her husband said   8   was the matter with him, the woman had told the doctor all and the doctor understood（知道）why. He wrote a prescription(处方)。And when Mrs. White brought the medicine to the doctor, he said to her, “    9    is for your husband and the pills are for you.”

“For me?”the woman said in surprise, “I’m fine. I don’t need   10medicine”

“I don’t think so, madam,” said the doctor. “They are sleeping pills(安眠药丸). Your husband will soon be all right if you take them.”

6.A. feels            B. was feeling   C. falls         D fell