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Children like to imagine they are someone else in a game. As a parent you might never guess how it can benefit your child. It helps your child：

Develop Social Skills

As children play pretend games，they explore relationships between family members，friends and co­workers and learn more about how people interact.Playing doctors，they imagine how physicians care for their patients.Imaginative play helps develop empathy(移情) with 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 or a super hero defending the planet is inspiring to children.It helps them develop confidence in their abilities and their potential.

Promote Intellectual Growth

Using imagination is the beginning of abstract thought.Children who can see a king's castle in a mound 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 pretend with their friends do a lot of talking.This helps increase their vocabulary，improve sentence structure and develop communication skills.

Get Rid of Fears

Pretending can help children get rid of their fears and worries.When children role­play 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.

1.Which of the following can help children develop social skills in a game?

2.Why can imagination build children's self­confidence?

3.Which of the following is NOT true according to the article?

4.The best title for this passage probably is________.

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Children like to imagine they are someone else in a game. As a parent you might never guess how it can benefit your child. It helps your child:

Develop Social Skills

As children play pretend games, 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. Imaginative play helps 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

Children have very little control over their lives. Imagining oneself as a builder of skyscrapers or a super hero defending the planet is inspiring to children. It helps them develop confidence in their abilities and their potential.

Promote Intellectual Growth

Using imagination is the beginning of abstract thought. Children who can see a king’s castle in a mound 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 numbers symbolize groups of objects, letters symbolize sounds, and so on.

Practice Language Skills

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

Get Rid of Fears

Pretending can help children get rid of their fears and worries. When children role-play the big, bad monsters under the bed, they gain a sense of control over him and he doesn’t seem quite so big or so bad.

1.What can help children develop social skills in a game?

A. Pretending to be a super hero.

B. Preparing a delicious dinner with mud.

C. Helping a doctor to attend patients.

D. Pretending to be a doctor.

2.Why can imagination build children’s self-confidence?

A. It makes them feel as if they were much more powerful than they really are.

B. It helps them protect people and make much greater progress.

C. It helps them gain control over themselves.

D. It makes them more willing to play fair.

3.Which of the following is NOT true according to the passage?

A. While playing pretend games, children learn to get along with others.

B. Playing pretend games helps children to do well while they are in school.

C. Playing pretend games only helps children psychologically.

D. Playing pretend games is good for children’s development.

4.The best title for this passage probably is “________”.

A. Benefits of Playing pretend games

B. Tips on How to Improve Your Children’s Imagination

C. Advantages of Playing Outdoors

D. Skills in Playing pretend games

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If you describe someone or their work as ______, you mean that they are very imaginative and have new ideas.

A. illegal　　　 B. intentional

C. initial　　　 D. original

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The Catherine family enjoyed the good things in life as much as anyone else. They ___36___games, books, music, toys, good food and good times. But sometimes ___37___seemed, especially to Mrs. Catherine who ___38___the house, that they had too much stuff in the closets, in the drawers, in the basement, and almost ___39___. It made Mrs. Catherine a little ___40___.

One day, at breakfast, Mrs. Catherine made a（n） ___41___. “This family,”she said firmly, “has too much stuff. It's time to get ___42___of some of them. ”The three children all ___43___with this idea and helped pile used things and unused things they were never going to use into the car.

Their first ___44___was Home for the Aged where the older went to live. Nurses and doctors looked after them, but sometimes the older got a little lonely and ___45___. They liked visitors and things to do. When the family arrived at Home for the Aged, they ___46___out their games and puzzles to the older and then sat down to play games and do puzzles with them. They had a ___47___time and they were sorry when it was time to leave.

Their next stop was the Young Cubs Hospital. The Catherine family dropped ___48___their load of used toys which were very welcome. The hospital workers said the toys would be given out at the hospital ___49___party.

Their last stop was People Who Care store. This was a store that sold things to ___50___money for those who needed warm clothes and good food. The Catherine family lugged all their old clothes and furniture into the store.

After that, the Catherine family ___51___home with warm feelings about what they had done. ___52___they drove along, they passed the lighted ___53___of supermarkets which were beautifully decorated for Christmas. There was window after window of the very latest things, but they were so filled with special thoughts about helping others that they ___54___noticed the wonderful things in the windows except maybe out of the ___55___of their eyes.

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A．GOLD These people who choose GOLD as their primary color like to fit in or belong.They are reliable people who enjoy serving others．Traditions and homes are very important to them. They need order and structure．They don't like change．

B．ORANGE People need a lot of variety and freedom．They take pride in being highly skilled．They enjoy "hand-on" work and often are good in a dangerous situations．They likes risks and challenges．

C．YELLOW People are curious about everything．They are confident and full of knowledge．They love sports very much and they work efficiently．

D．GREEN People are competent and want to control the realities of life．They enjoy solving problems and developing systems．They love intelligence and logic．They are often critical of themselves and others．

E．BLUE People enjoy close relationships．Peace and quietness are very important．These people are often very creative or they enjoy the creative work of others．

F．RED People who choose red as their primary color are energetic and they tend to be confident all the time．It seems like they are ready to do anything and they will be successful．And they are competitive．

请阅读以下根据员工性格而促进工作效率方法的信息，然后匹配上面的信息。

1.Creating a warm and a peaceful working environment and trying to avoid conflict; allowing them the freedom to express their feeling; encouraging them to be creative in the job．

2.Using their reliable qualities; providing a stable work environment and avoiding sudden change; giving standard rules and regulations and setting a good examples．

3.Assigning work which needs problem solving; encouraging them to think independently and enjoying their logic to the next step．

4.Assigning work which allows freedom; providing opportunities to be skillful and adventurous; allowing them the freedom to the job in their own ways．

5.Assigning work which needs full energy; providing opportunities for job competition; if he does well, let him know he is very likely to get promotion; praise them with their good jobs．

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Children are losing the ability to play properly because they are being given too many toys and games, according to new research.

The studies show that children, especially those under five, are often overwhelmed and actually play less than those with fewer toys. It may even harm their development. The studies show that giving children too many toys or toys of the wrong type can actually be doing them harm. They get overwhelmed and cannot concentrate on anything long enough to learn from it.

The conclusions have been backed up by British research looking at children with relatively fewer toys, whose parents spend more time reading, singing or playing with them. It showed such children surpass(胜过) youngsters from richer backgrounds, even those who could use computers.

Some parents notice the ill effect early. Orhan Ismail, a researcher saw a change for the worse in Cameron, his 10-month-old son, after he was given a lot of toys last Christmas.

Ismail said, “ If there are too many toys in front of him, he will just keep flitting around them and then end up going off and finding something like a slipper to play with. Now we just get out one or two toys and hide the rest in a box.”

Alexander and her husband also decided to limit the toys their 6 daughters play with. She believed many toys restrict children’s imaginations. She said, “ A Barbie can only work as a Barbie. But a cardboard box can become anything. The only limitations are in the child’s mind.”

Experts hesitate to put a figure on the number of toys children should have, but many believe two dozen is enough for children of preschool age.

1. In the writer’s opinion, a Barbie _____.

A. can attract more attention from children than a cardboard box

B. can work more than a Barbie

C. may become anything else such as a cardboard

D. may keep children from further imaginations

2. Which of the following is TRUE about toys given to children?

A. too many toys will help children develop wide interests.

B. One or two toys at a time will help children concentrate.

C. Only wrong types of toys do harm to children.

D. The proper number of toys given to the children depends on their ages.

3. It may NOT be a good idea to ____.

A. spend more time reading or playing with children

B. choose right types of toys for children

C. ask experts for the exact number of necessary toys

D. put out one or two toys and hide the rest

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I don’t want to ____ someone else’s children.

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Every year mobile phones develop. Imagining what they will look like and be able to do in 2020 is really a challenge. To help, experts have outlined three major mobile trends that they believe will have become reality by then.

Our phones will be so smart in 10 years’ time that they’ll know everything about our situation and warn us when something needs our attention. This is the top prediction of both Nokia and Google. They predict that our cars and home appliances will be able to communicate with our mobile. For example, fridges will tell your mobile to tell you to pick up milk on the way back from work. While driving, your mobile will suggest that you take a different route because there’s a road accident up ahead.

The second trend is in gesture-based controls. People who know the iPhone’s touch-sensitive screen are already familiar with the technology. It translates hand movements into actions on-screen. But gestural communications will make the phone more convenient to use and may completely replace touchpads. According to industry insiders, the most immediate step forward in gestural technology will be in voice recognition. It’s believed voice recognition technology will speed up communications. It is quicker to speak than type. Eventually, phone screens will disappear.

The third major development will change our understanding of a mobile phone. From a single phone, the mobile will be developed into multi-part devices. It is opposite to the current trend in which mobile phones are combining the functions of cameras, music players and game consoles. The prediction is based on the idea that the world will become more wireless and all these—cameras, music players and game consoles—will be wirelessly connected. Mobile phones won’t need to contain these devices because users will be able to control them wirelessly through their phones.

1.The first paragraph serves as ________.

A. a lead-in          B. a conclusion      C. a summary         D. a supporting fact

2.Which of the following is most likely to be the appearance of a mobile phone in 2020?

A. drive cars for us

B. be controlled by the users’ voices

C. be controlled by home appliances

D. be very big together with separated multiple parts

4.The text mainly tells us ________.

A. three major trends of mobile phones

B. what mobile phones will look like in 2020

C. the future mobile phones are gesture-based

D. some new functions of the present mobile phones

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The British aren’t having as many children as they used to. One reason is that people are having children much older than before, meaning they have fewer years in which they can have them. After years at university, they need a few years of work experience before they can get the job they want. They might then get married, but it’s incredibly expensive to buy a house in the UK.

The above explains why young British people now don’t move out of their parents’ home until they are around 30 years old on average. It is not until they are 30 that they can afford their own home. Increasingly, it is not until that age that they can afford to get married and start a new life in a new home. It’s only after this age that many young people start thinking about having a child.

So a British person manages to get a job, get a home and get married. Why isn’t he or she then having at least two children on average? The main reason is that it is quite expensive to bring up a child in the UK. Why is it expensive? Well, these days, both parents need to work just to pay for their home and living expenses. Because both parents are at work, that means they then need to pay someone to look after their child during the day. Paying for this childcare is nearly always expensive.

The recent financial crisis is making things even harder for families, since unemployment is rising and even fewer people can afford to have children. With so much pressure on families, is it any surprise that the divorce rate is so high?

So what is Britain doing to try and save the British family? The government is trying to make it cheaper to have children. For example, there have been increases in money families can claim from the state each month. Also, there are increasing government subsidies for nursery schools, so that parents do not need to pay so much for child care.

The government is also trying to reduce the number of hours British parents have to work to earn enough money to pay their bills. If parents didn’t have to work so many hours, they’d have more time to spend with their children and wouldn’t need to spend so much on childcare. On average, a Briton works 49 hours a week, which is the most in Europe. The state is now considering introducing laws to encourage companies to improve their employees’ work-life balance. Let’s hope they’re not too late to save the British family. Otherwise, the British will always be too tired, and won’t have enough time and money, to have children.

1.Young British people live in their parents’ home until around 30 because ________.

A．They are allowed to get married at 30

B．they can’t find jobs to support themselves

C．they can’t afford a house of their own until then

D．they enjoy family life with their parents

2.The British are now having fewer children than before for all the following reasons EXCEPT that ________.

A．they have fewer years to have children

B．they live much shorter lives than before

C．it is more expensive to bring up a child

D．people are losing their jobs because of the recent financial crisis

3.To make it cheaper to have children, the British government is ________.

A．bringing down prices

B．raising the salaries of parents

C．reducing family income tax

D．increasing subsidies for families and nursery schools

4.It can be inferred from the text that ________.

A．with long work hours, it is hard for British parents to balance life and work

B．more and more families in Britain are breaking up because they are having fewer children

C．among Europeans, British people work hardest and earn the least

D．childcare takes up too much energy and time for the British

5.The underlined word “subsidies” in Paragraph 5 means _________.

A．food paid by the government

B．school buildings for poor students

C．free transportation

D．money from the government to benefit the public

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Children are　　　　 to meet with setbacks as they grow up, so their parents don’t have to worry about it.

A. reasonable　　　 B. stable　　 C. bound 　　 D. skilful

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