Children are often far more gifted than what ...

Children are often far more gifted than what their parents or teachers can realize.IQ tests do not measure creative talents.By depending on them to measure intelligence，therefore，we miss out on the talents of many of our most gifted youngsters.Most children start life with valuable creative potential.Unfortunately，many of them have it knocked out of them，so to speak，by the time they reach the 4th grade.It is not that parents and teachers deliberately squelch(限制) creativity；or rather，they fail to recognize it.By simply observing the child at work or at play，you may detect creativity，if you look for the following key signs：

*Curiosity.The child’s questioning is persistent and purposeful.He is not content with given explanations，and he would rather dig under the surface.

*Flexibility.If one approach doesn’t work，the child quickly thinks of another.

*Sensitivity to Problem.He is quick to see gaps in information.He is sensitive to contradictions between prior rules and what he hears or reads.

*Self­feeling.He has a feeling of being somebody in particular.He is self­motivated，self­directed，and can work alone for long periods provided it’s on his own project.

*Originality.He has surprising，uncommon，interesting ideas.His drawings and stories have a style that marks them as his own.

*Insight.He has easy access to realms(领域) of the mind that non­creative people visit only in their dreams.He toys with ideas that easily come to him.

Qualities like these count very little in IQ tests，which measure memory，vocabulary，mathematical ability and general reasoning.These abilities are valuable，and the creative child does usually have them.However，the child with a so­called genius IQ of 180 is in reality no more likely to be a genius than the child with a slightly above­average IQ of 120.In fact，evidence suggests that some children with high IQs may develop memory and logical reasoning powers at the expense of insight，imagination，and adventurous qualities that are essential to geniuses.

1.The main purpose of the passage is to tell us________.

A．why IQ tests are not accurate

B．to encourage creativity in children

C．no to squelch creativity in children

D．the difference between intelligence and talents

2.The author believes that IQ tests mainly measure ________.

A．creative potential　 　 B．talents

C．intelligence　 　　　　 　 D．general reasoning

3.The passage doesn’t clearly state but implies that ________.

A．the education nowadays does not provide much space for creativity

B．intelligence makes no contributions to creativity

C．signs of creativity in children are hard to detect

D．IQ tests are often used to measure children’s talents

4.Which of the following best illustrates a child’s originality?

A．He can tell whether a given explanation is convincing or not.

B．He can find different ways to solve a problem.

C．He can work on an interesting project with concentration.

D．He can draw a picture or tell a story in his own style.

5.According to the passage，children with high IQs ________.

A．may lack the qualities essential to geniuses

B．will probably turn into geniuses

C．are more likely to be geniuses than those with low IQs

D．also have qualities essential to geniuses

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Children who are spoiled by their parents are more _____ than others —they are more likely to fight with their fellows for toys and candies.

A. pessimistic　　 　　　　　　　　　 　　　　　　　　　 B. sensitive　　　 　　　　　　　　　 　　　　　　　　　 C. aggressive　　 　　　　　　　　　 　　　　　　　　　 D. Punctual

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More than half of parents in the United States are helping , or have helped their adult children who have been hit by high unemployment and stagnant（无变化的）wages, according to a new survey. It showed that present economic conditions are discouraging young adults from leaving home and forcing those who have already gone, so - called boomerang children, to return.

“Parents are continuing their financial involvement longer than we expected,” said Ted Beck, the president and CEO of National Endowment for Financial Education (NEFE).

About 60 percent of parents questioned in the survey said they are helping their adult children who are no longer in school financially, providing housing and living expenses.

For an increasing number of adult children, the situation is bad. Two - thirds of adult children, aged 18 to 39, who are not in school said they faced tougher financial pressures than previous generations, according to the survey. And nearly one - third of parents agreed that it was easier for them to earn money than for their children.

Parents are helping their children out of genuine concern, and because they do not want to see them struggle. But Beck said that parents who make sacrifices to help their adult children should be cautious about their own finances.

“If you are taking on extra debt or delaying retirement to help your adult child, you could be making a mistake and putting your own financial future in danger.” Beck warned.

Boomerang children can also cause other problems for their parents. Thirty percent of parents said they had given up privacy since their adult children moved back home, while more than a quarter have taken on added debt, and ten percent have delayed retirement. But the survey also showed that 42 percent of adult children living at home are helping with the cooking and cleaning.

1.The underlined words “boomerang children” in the first paragraph likely means ________.

A. adult children visiting parents often

B. married adult children

C. adult children depending on parents for financial support

D. adult children independent and successful in life

2.What is Ted Beck’s suggestion to the parents?

A. Asking their children to help with the housework.

B. Leaving their children to struggle to live.

C. Being careful when helping their children financially.

D. Putting off their time of retirement.

3.According to the survey, we can know that ________.

A. about 50% of parents give money to their adult children to cover the daily cost

B. two - thirds of adult children are faced with financial problems in school

C. one - third of adult children earn money more easily than their parents

D. one in ten parents has delayed retirement

4.What is the main idea of the whole text?

A. Adult children are less independent.

B. Parents help support adult children.

C. Bad conditions affect children a lot.

D. Adult children like living with parents.

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For quite a number of children, their teachers’ advice is more acceptable than ____ of their parents.

A. one           B. that             C. which         D. what

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American parents usually think that their child should not have more pocket money than the children with whom he regularly connects, even if they are wealthier．But neither are children expected to compare with the richer if a large family, heavy responsibilities, or other conditions make it necessary to give a child less spending money than is customary （惯例的）in the neighborhood．

Whatever the pocket money is, its entire use is not controlled by the parents, because a child learns to use money correctly only through dealing with it himself．If a seven-year-old child gets a quarter as a week pocket money and is made to put it all in his piggy bank to save it up, he gets no idea what the real use for the money is．He gets the shiny coins and they soon disappear．

The idea of a bank account is too early for so small a child, although he can be made to understand and enjoy saving his coins—not all of them, only a part of what he receives—to buy something he especially wants．By the time he is eight he is old enough to take part in the opening of his own savings account, parents may take him to the bank, open a savings account for him and encourage him to put a certain quantity or any checks he receives as gifts into the bank and watch his bank savings grow as entry by entry（存入） is made．

He will be saving, earning, and spending suitable quantities all along in order to learn how to manage money and to keep him in a favorable position with his friend．The boy who can't join his fellows in a sweet shop once in a while, because he has to save every cent he gets or earns for some big unknown project his parents have chosen for him, is a sorry child．

1.Choose the best exolaration for the underlined part in the second paragraph.

A．It is a kind of bank run by children．

B．It is a contralre in the shape of a pig for saving coins.

C．It is a certain place in which pigs are raise．

D．It is a bank whose building looks like a pig

2.Which of the following statements is TRUE?

A．Most of the rich people in America give children much pocket money．

B．American children usually have their bank accounts until they are eight．

C．American parents seldom care for their children's spending money．

D．American children begin to learn how to manage money when very young．

3.Suppose an 8-year-old child receives 10 dollars as his birthday gift, he may probably ____．

A．spend the money on the things he wants

B．compare the gift with that of his friend

C．have most of it saved in the bank

D．put all the money in his piggy bank

4.Why does the writer think the boy is a sorry one if he saves every cent he gets or earns?

A．Because he can not manage his money and is kept himself in an unfavorable position

B．Because he can not join the fellows in a sweet shop once in a while

C．Because he can not learn the use of money through spending it himself

D．Because he can not have any other choice but save, earn of spend money

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In any family with more than one child, children seem to naturally compete for their parents’ love and attention. Parents say they love every child equally. But is that true?

Susan, founder of a consulting firm in Chicago, interviewed 216 women and found that even though none of her questions asked directly about a parent favoring one child over another, about two-third of the women said there was a favored child. And they also remembered their experience when they were young. One of the women said, “My mother always liked my brother better, and he got to summer camp in 1968 and I didn’t.

Plumez, who interviewed parents with both biological children (亲生孩子 ) and adoptive children for an adoption book in 2008, found that what matters most is whether your temperaments (性情 ) are pleasing. “In some cases, parents would say they felt closer to their adopted children, ”she says. “Some parents like the children with characters similar to theirs. Two people who are shy and withdrawn (内向的) might get along well, unless the shy parent doesn’t like that aspect of themselves and they try to push the naturally withdrawn child to be more extroverted.”

It could be a result of gender, birth order or how easy or difficult a child’s temperament may be, but a parent’s different treatment has far-reaching effects. Studies have found that less-favored children may suffer emotionally, with decreased self-esteem and behavioral problems in children. Favoritism (偏爱) is a reason for the next generation not to like each other.

Experts say it’s not realistic to say everyone should be treated equally, because no two people are the same and they related differently to others.

“It does not mean the parent loves or likes one child more. It has to do with which one of them is independent,” says psychologist Lauriet Kramer of the University of Illinois.

1.The study carried out by Susan shows that ________.

A. showing favoritism is common in many families

B. most mothers like their sons better than their daughters

C. only two-thirds of the women interviewed have more than a child

D. it is favoritism that leads to absence of harmony in most families

2.The underlined word “ extroverted” in the third paragraph means ________.

A. independent        B. outgoing        C. easygoing        D. awful

3.What can we infer from the passage?

A. Favoritism is not beneficial to the development of children

B. Parents’ favoritism to a certain child can’t be avoided in families.

C. Parents may be favorite one of their children and don’t realize it.

D. People are very much shaped by how they were treated by their parents.

4.What’s the best title for the passage?

A. Parents’ favoritism can affect children deeply

B. Why do parents show favoritism to children?

C. Parents should give attention to all their children

D. Building a harmonious family is important to children

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Parents often have high expectations for their children.　　　　　 ，it is Chinese parents who are trying their best to make their children nearly good at every subject.

A. Personally　　 B. Basically

C. Hopefully　　 D. Typically

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Young children are significantly more likely than adults to have their opinions influenced by robots, according to a new research. The study, conducted at the University of Plymouth, compared how adults and children respond to an identical task when in the presence of both their peers（同龄人）and robots.

It showed that while adults regularly have their opinions influenced by peers, something also showed in previous studies, they are largely able to resist being persuaded by robots. However, children aged between seven and nine were more likely to give the same responses as the robots, even if they were obviously incorrect.

The study asks people to look at a screen showing four lines and say which two match in length. When alone, people almost never make a mistake but when doing the experiment with others, they tend to follow what others are saying.

When children were alone in the room in this research, they scored 87% on the test, but when the robots join in their score drops to 75%. And of the wrong answers, 74% matched those of the robot.

The research was led by former Plymouth researcher Anna Vollmer and Professor in Robotics Tony Belpaeme, from the University of Plymouth and Ghent University.

Professor Belpaeme said: “People often follow the opinions of others and we’ve known for a long time that it is hard to resist taking over views and opinions of people around us. But as robots will soon be found in the home and the workplace, we were wondering if people would follow robots. What our results show is that adults do not follow what the robots are saying. But when we did the experiment with children, they did. It shows children can perhaps have more of an affinity（亲和力）with robots than adults, which does give the question: what if robots were to suggest, for example, what products to buy or what to think?”

1.What did the adults do when staying with robots？

A.They totally accept the robots’ suggestions.

B.They generally refused the robots’ effects.

C.They tried to persuade robots to resist them.

D.They usually compared robots with their children.

2.Why did some children made more mistakes in the experiment?

A.Because children were not as clever as adults.

B.Because robots in the presence made such mistakes.

C.Because robots reflected better than human beings.

D.Because children wanted to affect the robots on purpose.

3.What is Professor Belpaeme’s attitude towards the result of the experiment?

A.He is optimistic about the result. B.He doubts the result of the research.

C.He doesn’t care about the result. D.He is so worried about the future.

4.What should be followed after the last paragraph?

A.What will we do to teach our children?

B.What will adults do to avoid the problem?

C.What will people do to solve such problems?

D.Why are children influenced by such robots?

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Upon reaching an ________ age, more often than not, children are encouraged, but not forced, “ to leave the nest.”

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It is our choices that show what we truly are, far ______ our abilities.

A. more than　　 B. less than

C. as good as　 D. as well as

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