housework, but with one of the following suggestions, you really can get your children to help at home.
If you give your children the impression that they can never do anything quite right, then they will regard
themselves as unfit or unable persons. Unless children believe they can succeed, they will never become
totally independent.
My daughter Mary"s fifth-grade teacher made every child in her class feel special. When students
received less than a perfect test score, she would point out what they had mastered (掌握) and declared
firmly they could learn what they had missed.
You can use the same way when you evaluate(评价)your child"s work at home. Don"t always scold
and you should give lots of praise instead. Talk about what he has done right, not about what he hasn"t
done. If your child completes a difficult task, promise him a Sunday trip or a ball game with Dad.
Learning is a process(过程)of trying and failing and trying and succeeding. If you teach your children
not to fear a mistake of failure, they will learn faster and achieve success at last.
B. school education
C. family education
D. pre-school education
B. the more encouragement and praise you give, the more responsible and helpful children will become
C. it is very difficult to make children responsible for housework
D. children can be forced to help with housework
________.
B. promise him a trip
C. give him a punishment
D. promise him a ball game
B. take pride in Mary"s fifth-grade teacher
C. do as what Mary"s teacher did in educating children
D. follow Mary"s example because she never fails in the test
B. practice makes perfect
C. no pains, no gains
D. failure is the mother of success
I was pretty shocked when I first stepped onto the campus(校园). Well, it"s not even really a campus.
It"s more like a district in a small town.
Harvard"s main buildings are from the 18th century. They look very old and simple. You might even
say they"re a little old. They don"t fit the modern idea of university at all. The buildings are surrounded by
grass and trees, so I felt as if I had walked into a medieval castle(中世纪的城堡). But when I looked
across the street, busy shops and in-fashion students made me feel like I was in the 21st century again. It
creates a strong contrast(对比)and brings a special atmosphere to the school.
Our tour guide Gary took us around and told us: "You see this grass field in the center of the school?
Here is where they host their graduation ceremony(毕业典礼). They just set up tents and benches
and have a very simple ceremony." Unbelievable! Who would think the most talented students just
graduate on the lawn?
I saw some students put a blanket on the grass and lie down to read a book. When I listened to the
soft sound of pages turning, along with singing of the birds, I felt very calm. There was no competitive
feeling at all.
Harvard has the world"s first computer in its science center and there are hundreds of high-end
computers too. Its religion and the literature departments are also among the best. It is the perfect mix of
tradition and new technology. It makes Harvard a very attractive place to study in.
I hope one day I’ll attend my dream school - Harvard.
B. the author"s impression of Harvard
C. Harvard"s old buildings
D. the academic system at Harvard
B. the classes held on beautiful lawns at Harvard
C. Harvard students not taking their graduation ceremony seriously
D. the feeling of not living in modern society on the campus
B. There are no competitions at Harvard University.
C. Graduation ceremonies are not complex(复杂的)at Harvard.
D. All Harvard buildings date back to the 18th century.
B. Religion, law and arts.
C. Literature, arts and computer science.
D. Religion, computer science and literature.
B. competitive
C. peaceful
D. old
Mouse potatoes joined couch potatoes (who spend much time watching TV on the couch),
google officially became a verb and drama queens (extremely emotional persons) finally found
the attention when they crossed over from popular culture to mainstream English language.
The mouse potato, the himbo (attractive, empty-headed man) and drama queen were among
100 new words added to the 2006 update of America"s best-selling dictionary, the Merriam-Webster
Collegiate Dictionary《韦氏大词典》. The Internet search engine Google also found its way into
the dictionary for the first time as a verb, meaning to find information quickly on the worldwide web.
New words and phrases from the fields of science, technology, pop culture and industry are
chosen each year by Merriam-Webster"s team of editors after months of looking through books,
magazines and even food labels. "They are not tracking spoken language. They are looking for
evidence that words have been used in the written English language," said Arthur Bicknell, senior
editor of Merriam-Webster.
Other words first coming into the dictionary this year were soul patch (a small growth of beard
under a man"s lower lip), unibrow (two eyebrows joining together) and supersize the fast food
industry phrase for extra large meals.
The technology world contributed ringtones (changeable incoming cellphone call signals) and
spyware (software installed in a computer to track a user"s activities) while biodiesel (生物柴油)
and avian influenza(禽流感) came from the world of science.
America"s first dictionary - Noah Webster"s A Compendious Dictionary of the English Language
was published 200 years ago and also introduced some fresh words that have now become familiar.
Those "new" words in 1806 included slang, surf, psychology, naturally and Americanize.
B. a person who spends much time on the computer
C. a mouse that is shown on the screen of the computer
D. a person who likes to eat mice and potatoes
B. himbo, soul patch, unibrow, supersize.
C. ringtones, spyware, biodiesel, avian influenza.
D. couch potatoes, surf, psychology, Americanize.
B. New words and phrases chosen by the editors of the dictionary have been used in written English somewhere.
C. Some words that are now familiar to us used to be fresh words collected in the dictionary.
D. The Merriam-webster Collegiate Dictionary becomes the best-seller because 100 new words are
added to it.
nationwide contest to redesign the cars.Final competitors were chosen from a field of 60
applicants.
"The schools were selected to find technology that will help our country reach the needs
for energy sources,so we don"t have to depend on other countries to provide fuel," Pickering
said.He is vice chairman of the US House of Reprentatives Energy and Commerce Committee.
The teams received $10 000 and a Chevrolet Equinox which would be used as a starting place
for modifications.Each team can also get $25 000 in parts and software from GM and other
sponsors.The cars will be taken to the GM proving grounds for a national competition.It"s the
finale (结束曲)of a three-year competition.
In the first year,students designed and worked out their plans."At the end of the first year,our
plans for the hybrid (混合动力系统)were approved and we received our own Chevrolet Equinox
to begin construction," said Amanda McAlpin,leader of the outreach team.
In the second year,the students" goal is for their hybrid to exceed the factory Equinox"s fuel
efficiency by 50 percent."Our goal is to place in the top five but increase in the areas we lacked in,"
McAlpin said."If we can maintain this strategy,we should be able to obtain our goal."In the final
competition this year,GM technicians would examine the cars to approve the safety and make sure
they meet all contest rules."We would like to be in the top half of each event,but they are all different.
Every team has their own strategy to win," said a computer engineering major.
"By hosting the competition,GM really gets the cream of the crop (优秀毕业生)from the top
engineering schools across the country," McAlpin said."Many of our recent graduates who have
worked on the car have received jobs with GM." And Pickering agreed,"Their brainpower will give
us firepower and horsepower for the future."
A.One year.
B.Two years.
C.Three years.
D.Four years
B.changes
C.approval
D.examination
B.To sell its Chevrolet Equinox.
C.To make advertisements.
D.To find excellent graduates and employ them.
B.A Competition for Redesigning Cars
C.An Energy-saving Competition
D.GM and the Redesigned Cars
When she looked ahead,Florence Chadwick saw nothing but a solid wall of fog.Her body was
numb (麻木的).She had been swimming for nearly sixteen hours.Already she was the first woman
to swim the English Channel in both directions.Now,at age 34,her goal was to become the first
woman to swim from Catalina Island to the California coast.
On that fourth morning of July in 1952,the sea was like an ice bath and the fog was so dense
that she could hardly see her support boats.Sharks cruised (巡游)toward her lone figure,only to
be driven away by rifle shots.Against the frigid grip of the sea,she struggled on-hour after hour-while
millions watched on national television.
Alongside Florence in one of the boats,her mother and her trainer offered encouragement.They
told her it wasn"t much farther.But all she could see was fog.They urged her not to quit.She never
had...until then.With only a half mile to go,she asked to be pulled out.
Still thawing (使变暖和)her chilled body several hours later,she told a reporter,"Look,I"m not
excusing myself,but if I could have seen land I might have made it." It was not tiredness or even the
cold water that defeated her.It was the fog.She was unable to see her goal.
Two months later,she tried again.This time,despite the same dense fog,she swam with her faith
intact and her goal clearly pictured in her mind.She knew that somewhere behind that fog was land
and this time she made it!Florence Chadwick became the first woman to swim the Catalina Channel,
eclipsing the men"s record by two hours!
B.Because the fog was so thick that she lost heart at the sea.
C.Because she couldn"t see her goal:the land.
D.Because the sea water too cold to bear.
B.She had never thought of giving it up.
C.She had never seen such thick fog.
D.She had never swum across the strait before.
B.Florence Chadwick succeeded in swimming across the Catalina Channel in September,1952.
C.People had to use guns to drive away some flesh-eating fish in the sea.
D.No women but Florence Chadwick were able to swim across the English Channel in both directions.
B.Swim Across the Catalina Channel
C.The Fog Defeated Her
D.Set a Goal for Yourself
moment! She quickly picked up the wet phone and tried to turn it on, but nothing worked. Her first
reaction? She got dressed, drove to the nearest store, and bought a new model at full price.
A new study finds that fear of losing your phone is a common illness. About 66 percent of those
surveyed suffer from nomophobia or "no mobile phone phobia". Interestingly, more women worry about
losing their phone than men.
Fortunately, there"s a solution.
The first step is to figure out if you have nomophobia. Checking your phone too often is one thing, but
the true sign of a problem is that you can"t conduct business or go about your routine when the fear
becomes so severe.
Do you go to unusual lengths to make sure you have your phone? That"s another sign of a problem.
If you find you check your phone plenty of times per hour, or a total of an hour per day, there may be
a problem.
Some of the treatments are similar to those for treating anxiety attacks: Leaving the phone behind and
not checking e-mail or text messages, and then learning to tolerate the after anxiety. Even if this leads to
a high level of worry and stress, the solution is to push through the fear and learn to deal with not having
your phone.
Of course, there are also technological alternatives. Luis Levy, a co-founder at Novy PR, says he
uses an application called Cerberus that can automatically track the location of his phone. To find it, he
can just go to a Web site and see the phone"s location.
He also insures his phone through a service called Asurion. The company"s description of its product
reads like a prescription for anxiety: "60 million phones are lost, stolen or damaged each year. You"ll
have complete peace of mind knowing that your phone is protected and you can quickly reconnect with
family, friends and work, as soon as the very next day!"
B. To introduce the topic for discussion.
C. To tell us we should get phones ready for a trip.
D.To warn us that we should be careful.
B. Habits of using mobile phones
C. Independence of mobile phones.
D. Eagerness for new mobile phones.
B. Avoiding using phone for some time
C. Not using a mobile phone in one"s daily work.
D.Protecting one"s phone against any damage.
B. It lets you know other people also lose their phones.
C. It gives you a prescription to treat nomophobia.
D. It enables you to reconnect with your acquaintance.
B. Attitude toward mobile phone.
C. Solutions to nomophobia
D. Disadvantages of mobile phone
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